Stephen Stromberg

Stephen Stromberg is deputy opinions editor of The Washington Post. He was part of the Washington Post team that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service. His work focuses on U.S. politics and government, healthcare, the environment and energy, but he is also one of the few American journalists to write about professional sumo wrestling. Before joining The Post, he covered American politics and economics for The Economist.

An Eagle Scout, he was raised as a Mormon and has written about Mormonism. He grew up in Los Angeles before attending Harvard University where he was editorial chair of the Harvard Crimson. He then attended Oxford University, where he was executive editor of the Oxonian Review.

He is married to Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri and lives in Washington, D.C.