Steve Berman

Opinion Contributor

Steve Berman is a transplanted northerner living in the Atlanta area. For over 30 years, Steve has been a technology entrepreneur, creating, building, and selling businesses. Steve has been writing about politics and social issues for nearly a decade. It started with a “diary" on RedState, and quickly moved on to professional writing. He has written for other well-known web publications and was one of the original writers who helped Erick Erickson launch The Resurgent in 2016.

Steve’s work has been published by Fox News, and he has been cited on the New York Times opinion page, and quoted by the Washington Post. He is excited to be involved with the latest project, The First, as an opinion writer.

A Jewish believer in Christ, Steve lives and worships with his family in the Atlanta suburbs, after moving to central Georgia from New Hampshire over 28 years ago.

UKRAINE: Putin’s Shutdown Madness Strategy | Steve Berman

UKRAINE: Putin’s Shutdown Madness Strategy | Steve Berman


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Ukraine is taking back Russian-held territory, meter by meter, slogging through the summer into fall, at great cost: the Russian front on their territory would stretch from Norfolk to Augusta, Georgia if it was in the U.S.—to give you a sense of scale. Ukraine has made relatively tiny advances, mostly confined to a salient (a …

CHOOSE: Which Path Shall the GOP Take? | Steve Berman

CHOOSE: Which Path Shall the GOP Take? | Steve Berman


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Some proposed definitions to add to the Webster’s dictionary: Bobbitt (v) – to cut off one’s partner’s male genitalia, i.e. penis, with a kitchen knife. Generally done while the partner is sleeping. “She Bobbitted him real good after she caught him cheating on her.” Boebert (v) – to fondle one’s partner’s male genitalia, i.e. penis, …

BAD NEWS: The Electoral Math Says… | Steve Berman

BAD NEWS: The Electoral Math Says… | Steve Berman


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It’s hard for me personally to understand why the polls continuously have Donald Trump with a double-digit lead among Republican voters in primary polls (as of September 12, that is). As my brother tends to gently smack me in the head to bring me to reality—people have made their major decision on Trump’s disqualification. Those who continue …

KILL X? Musk Says He’s Not Anti-Semitic While Blaming Jews For X’s Woes

KILL X? Musk Says He’s Not Anti-Semitic While Blaming Jews For X’s Woes


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Over the long weekend, Elon Musk attacked a Jewish organization, the Anti Defamation League (ADL), for “destroying half the value of [X/Twitter]…roughly $22 billion” in a bizarre claim that ADL pressured advertisers to leave the platform. It’s a monumentally dumb move. Let me be clear about a couple of things before I explain why. First, …

GOP DEBATE: Stop Listening to a CBS Hallucination | Steve Berman

GOP DEBATE: Stop Listening to a CBS Hallucination | Steve Berman


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Thursday, the spectacle of Donald J. Trump turning himself in at the Fulton County Jail will consume the media, even eclipsing the search for a thousand missing souls in Maui and California digging out of mud and floods. And the network of “it may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS” put out …

INDICTMENT: Why We Must Not Stop Georgia’s Trump Racketeering Trial | Steve Berman

INDICTMENT: Why We Must Not Stop Georgia’s Trump Racketeering Trial | Steve Berman


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Even Donald Trump knew that his greatest legal threat would come from Atlanta. “Billion Dollar Lawyer” Drew Findling leads the Trump legal team in Fulton County, which will be fighting the indictments handed down by District Attorney Fani Willis late last night. All in all, 19 alleged conspirators were charged as part of a wide-ranging case that …

GEORGIA: Trump Fracture Will Erupt After Charges Drop | Steve Berman

GEORGIA: Trump Fracture Will Erupt After Charges Drop | Steve Berman


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In 2022, Gov. Brian Kemp, who former President Donald Trump despised, beat Trump’s candidate, former Sen. David Perdue, by 51.9 points. (You saw that right: the margin between the two candidates was over 50 points. The actual percentages were 73.7% for Kemp, 21.8% for Perdue.) Perdue previously lost his 2020 Senate race in a runoff …

BELIEVE: The NYT Confirms a Conspiracy to Hide Hunter Stories? | Steve Berman

BELIEVE: The NYT Confirms a Conspiracy to Hide Hunter Stories? | Steve Berman


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You can find out a whole lot more about what is real and what is Twitter/X trolling by seeing what’s living rent-free in the heads that populate 620 Eighth Avenue: that is, the newsroom of the New York Times. To wit: Andrew Clark, a GOP strategist, put together a timeline of Trump indictments against breaking stories …