Kimberley A. Strassel (born July 24, 1972) is an American author, journalist, and member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board. She writes a weekly conservative column, "Potomac Watch", which appears on Fridays.
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Early life
Strassel grew up in Buxton, Oregon, and she graduated in 1990 from Banks High School in nearby Banks. She graduated from Princeton University in 1994 with a B.A. in public policy and international affairs and immediately took a position at the Wall Street Journal.
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Career
Reporter
Before joining the Editorial Board she was a news assistant for the European edition of The Wall Street Journal in Brussels (1994-1996) and a staff writer covering technology for The Wall Street Journal Europe in London (1996-1999). She moved to New York in 1999 to cover real estate before quickly joining the editorial page as an assistant features editor.
Op-ed writer
She became a senior editorial writer and member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal in 2005. In 2007, she began writing the long-running "Potomac Watch" column for the Wall Street Journal. Strassel favorably profiled then-candidate for US vice president Sarah Palin shortly before the 2008 election in an article entitled "'I Haven't Always Just Toed the Line'". The article originally appeared in the Weekend Interview section of The Wall Street Journal on November 1, 2008. In 2012, Strassel wrote an editorial in the WSJ that alleged the Obama campaign was targeting Frank L. VanderSloot, a national finance co-chair for Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign and a top campaign donor. Strassel's editorial was disputed by journalists and liberal commentators. In May 2013, as part of the IRS targeting controversy, Strassel reported that the IRS (not the Obama campaign) targeted conservatives, including Frank L. VanderSloot. In November 2017, Strassel's coverage of the Trump-Russia dossier scandal was alleged to have stoked tensions between the Wall Street Journal's reporting staff and editorial Board (of which Strassel is a member); the latter having been widely criticised for taking a partisan, 'pro-Trump' stance. The tensions have reportedly contributed to an exodus of leading journalists from the WSJ. Strassel has referred to the "Steele Dossier", a collection of intelligence reports regarding Donald Trump's alleged connections with Putin's regime compiled by ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele, as "...one of the dirtiest political tricks in U.S. history" and refuted specific components of the Dossier as "ludicrous".
Author
In 2006, Strassel co-wrote Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws (ISBN 0-7425-4545-8), which argues that government regulation interferes with marketplace initiatives to provide women with economic opportunity. In June 2016, she published a book called The Intimidation Game: How the Left Is Silencing Free Speech, detailing her assertions about the IRS's alleged harassment of conservatives and other similar events.
Other
In 2014, Strassel won the $250,000 Bradley Prize, a prize awarded by a conservative foundation.
In February 2016, Strassel was among the panelists for the South Carolina Republican presidential debate.
Personal life
Strassel married journalist Matthew Rose in Buxton, Oregon on July 15, 2000.
References
External links
- WSJ bio page
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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