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.

WINNING: Voting for Crappy Candidates for the Glory of the Party | Steve Berman

WINNING: Voting for Crappy Candidates for the Glory of the Party | Steve Berman


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Voters are in a bad mood (apologies to my brother Jay; I cribbed his phrase). In some races, all the candidates are trash. I talked to a friend this week as we endured a staccato string of attack ads from both sides in the Georgia race for U.S. Senate, who said it’s more important to …

VENEGANCE: Did Russia Shoot Its Last Cruise Missiles? | Steve Berman

VENEGANCE: Did Russia Shoot Its Last Cruise Missiles? | Steve Berman


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As all the news is covering, Vladimir Putin ordered at least 75 missiles fired on Ukrainian cities, targeting civilian centers, energy production and utilities as vengeance for damage to the Kursk Bridge which links Crimea to Russia. Just a month ago, we were reading that Russia has less than 200 Iskander missiles left, and that Putin’s forces were using old S-300 …

HE INHALED: The Unbearable Humiliation of Being Biden | Steve Berman

HE INHALED: The Unbearable Humiliation of Being Biden | Steve Berman


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President Joe Biden’s having a whole humble pie this Friday. The AP’s lede paragraph noted “the failure of one of his biggest and most humiliating foreign policy gambles,” when the president fist-bumped Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and got nothing on oil production.  The Saudis are playing oil hardball, still stung by Biden’s public rebuke on …

WINNING CIVILIZATION: Atonement for the Functionally Apathetic | Steve Berman

WINNING CIVILIZATION: Atonement for the Functionally Apathetic | Steve Berman


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Today is the Jewish Day of Atonement, known as Yom Kippur. Observant Jews all over the world will begin fasting and praying at sundown today. It’s no ordinary fast, either. After the last drop of water is swallowed at sunset, nothing will be consumed or swallowed until sunset Wednesday. That’s called an “absolute fast” and …

CHEATERS: Lifetime Bans for Lifetime Cheats | Steve Berman

CHEATERS: Lifetime Bans for Lifetime Cheats | Steve Berman


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I am going to start this with an unusual tweet from Jimmy Donaldson aka YouTuber “Mr. Beast”: Now, for the serious part. The top chess player in the world, Magnus Carlsen, after two weeks of silence, publicly accusedthe man who once beat him of cheating. Carlsen shocked the chess world by resigning after one move in his last match with …

Why Democrats Will Lose | Steve Berman

Why Democrats Will Lose | Steve Berman


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As we edge closer to the mid-term elections, competitive congressional races are beginning to stand out, and the numbers become clearer. According to the latest Cook Political Report, Republicans need only take two seats more than their “leans” and favored toss-ups to gain the majority in the House. Democrats have to win 29 seats, after taking …

FAITH: Introspection is the Best Direction | Steve Berman

FAITH: Introspection is the Best Direction | Steve Berman


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Sunday night begins the annual Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) festival, leading to a ten-day period bookended by the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). The days in the middle are known as the “Days of Awe” where everyone is highly encouraged to look inside and work out anything that’s not—to be corny—Kosher. These ten days …

POST-CHRISTIAN: America’s not Christian, and Jesus is Fine With That | Steve Berman

POST-CHRISTIAN: America’s not Christian, and Jesus is Fine With That | Steve Berman


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My mind—I apologize for giving you a TMI peek—frequently works in song. I wish Billy Joel would update “We Didn’t Start the Fire” with some modern lyrics. You know, start in the 90s with Rwanda, starving children in Somalia, Mogadishu, Kuwait, Saddam Hussein. Then into the millennium: 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Osama bin Laden, George W. …