Bret Stephens

Bret Louis Stephens (born November 21, 1973) is an American conservative columnist. He has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times and a senior contributor to NBC News since 2017. Since 2021, he has been the inaugural editor-in-chief of SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations. Stephens was previously a foreign affairs columnist and deputy editorial page editor at The Wall Street Journal, overseeing the editorial pages of its European and Asian editions. From 2002 to 2004, he was editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post. At the Wall Street Journal, Stephens won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2013. Stephens is known for his neoconservative foreign policy views, including support for Israel and US military intervention in the Middle East, for being part of the right-of-center opposition to Donald Trump, and for commentary that has generated controversy on issues such as climate change, race, and Israel.