Stephen Stromberg is politics and economics opinion editor at The New York Times [1] and a former deputy opinion editor for The Washington Post . [2] He was part of the Washington Post team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. [3] [2] He is among the senior Post journalists who left the paper in 2025, [4] as publisher William Lewis and owner Jeff Bezos curbed the independence of its opinions section. [5]
His work focuses on U.S. politics [6] [2] and government, [7] [8] healthcare, the environment [9] and energy, [10] but he is also one of the few American journalists to write about professional sumo wrestling. [11] Before joining The Post, he covered American politics and economics for The Economist . [12]
An Eagle Scout, [13] he was raised as a Mormon and has written about Mormonism. [14] [15] He grew up in Los Angeles [16] before attending Harvard University [17] where he was editorial chair of the Harvard Crimson . [18] He then attended Oxford University, where he was executive editor of the Oxonian Review . [19]
He is married to former Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri, now a staff writer at The Atlantic, and lives in Washington, D.C. [20]