Bret Louis Stephens (born 1973) is the foreign-affairs columnist of the Wall Street Journal and deputy editorial page editor, responsible for the editorial pages of the Journal's European and Asian editions. He was editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post in 2002–2004.[1]
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Stephens grew up in Mexico City, the son of Xenia and Charles Stephens, a former vice president of a chemical company in Mexico, General Products.[2] His parents were Jewish; his father was born in Mexico to American parents, and his mother was born in Italy to a family who had fled there from Berlin and were originally from Russia.[3][4][5] After graduating from Middlesex School, Stephens went to the University of Chicago and the London School of Economics.[6] Stephens is married to Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim.
Stephens began his career at the Journal as an op-ed editor in New York and later worked as an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels. In 2006 he took over the "Global View" column from George Melloan, who has retired.
Between 2002 and 2004 he was editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post,a position he assumed at age 28 – the youngest person ever to hold that position. He is the winner of the 2008 Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism. In 2005, Stephens was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, where he was previously a media fellow. He is also a frequent contributor to Commentary magazine.[7]
He supports military action against Iran and has urged Obama to support Israel. He wrote "Why Hasn't Israel Bombed Iran (Yet)?" and wrote that Israel is in "frightful peril".[8]