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.

NUKES: Trump Predicted Putin’s Battlefield Nukes, and Did Something About It | Steve Berman

NUKES: Trump Predicted Putin’s Battlefield Nukes, and Did Something About It | Steve Berman


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“I think of the future, but I refuse to paint it. Anything can happen. But I often think of nuclear war.” — Donald Trump, in 1990. “[I]f someone decides to annihilate Russia, we have the legal right to retaliate. Yes, it will be a catastrophe for humanity and for the world…but we will ascend to heaven …

CRAZY TRAIN: Biden Is Dividing the West | Steve Berman

CRAZY TRAIN: Biden Is Dividing the West | Steve Berman


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Ukrainian air force pilots will be flying Poland’s MIG-29 jets. Or not. The Republic of Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a short statement worth repeating here in full. The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Government, are ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 …

Blat of the West | Steve Berman

Blat of the West | Steve Berman


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I’ve been struggling with something that seems to have been hand-waved away for now, given that we pretty much know Vladimir Putin’s intentions, seeing them with our own eyes. But I ask myself why, because everything that’s so obvious to so many before the Ukraine invasion points to a bad outcome for Russia and Putin. …

BIDEN: Condolences for Ukraine. America, build more bridges! | Steve Berman

BIDEN: Condolences for Ukraine. America, build more bridges! | Steve Berman


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My expectations were deliciously low, like getting a New York pizza slice at a shopping-center parking lot carnival food truck. Even so, President Biden delivered a tasteless, bland experience. I was headed for bed at 9:30, just about the time he started to gaffe the TelePrompTer text. When I awoke this morning, I found I …

SOTU: We Need a “Biden Doctrine” But We’ll Get Word Salad | Steve Berman

SOTU: We Need a “Biden Doctrine” But We’ll Get Word Salad | Steve Berman


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President Biden is not polling well. The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows him badly under water. A majority of those polled (53%) think Biden is not doing a good job, and a larger majority—over 60%—say he hasn’t kept his promises. Today, less than 40 percent of the public approves of Biden’s handling of nearly every major issue: …

Joe Biden is Vladimir Putin’s Goldilocks | Steve Berman

Joe Biden is Vladimir Putin’s Goldilocks | Steve Berman


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In 2008, Russia attacked Georgia. Last August, in 2021, the Atlantic Council called that event “Putin’s green light.” In 2008, George W. Bush was in the twilight of his presidency, U.S. forces were busy trying to hand over sections of Iraq to local forces, while Gen. David Petraeus took the reins of CENTCOM. In Afghanistan, the U.N. investigated …

UKRAINE: Resistance is Not Futile

UKRAINE: Resistance is Not Futile


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I have a couple of thoughts on Ukraine, like everyone else this morning. The news is rather numbing. In 1991, I was in Europe as the tension turned to celebration when the Berlin Wall fell. After 31 years, the Russian leader has betrayed his own country, peace, prosperity (except his own), and assumed a mantle …

UKRAINE: Putin Got His Strategy from Studying America | Steve Berman

UKRAINE: Putin Got His Strategy from Studying America | Steve Berman


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As predicted, Vladimir Putin signed a law recognizing the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, and immediately the Russians came in as “peacekeepers.” What’s key here is the territory claimed by the two newly carved out republics, that Ukraine hasn’t recognized by the way, is larger than the territory their militias control. That means the Russians will …

BABEL: God Lets Some White Churches Die | Steve Berman

BABEL: God Lets Some White Churches Die | Steve Berman


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In 1959, Rev. Kyle Haselden, wrote “The Racial Problem in Christian Perspective,” which took five years for Harper to publish, in 1964. Haselden pastored an all-Black church in Charleston, West Virginia. When the book hit, the New York Times, published Haselden’s essay, “11 A.M. Sunday Is Our Most Segregated Hour.” It’s a marvelous piece of …

UKRAINE: Watch This to See When Putin Will Invade | Steve Berman

UKRAINE: Watch This to See When Putin Will Invade | Steve Berman


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The Russians are as ready as they’ll ever be if they plan to invade Ukraine. According to U.S. sources, backed by satellite imagery, Russia’s claim of pulling back troops is false. American media, citing all kinds of unspecified sources, had claimed that Putin was going to invade on February 16th, Wednesday. This led to a very strong, sarcastic, …

Democracy Didn’t Die in Darkness | Steve Berman

Democracy Didn’t Die in Darkness | Steve Berman


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In perhaps the second-most liberal city in America, ruled by authoritarian busybodies who protect billionaires while virtue signaling their devotion to the homeless—yes, I mean San Francisco—the voters decided to deploy their super weapon. Yes, I mean democracy. Many are calling it a “revolution” or a “revolt” but those things only happen when democracy isn’t available. …

I’ll Take Justin Trudeau Over All Y’all | Steve Berman

I’ll Take Justin Trudeau Over All Y’all | Steve Berman


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I’d rather vote for Justin Trudeau than for most Democrats or Republicans. At least Trudeau knows his place when the President of the United States tells him to get his truckers off the border, or else. Speaking of President Biden, after the U.S. Army, of which he is Commander-in-Chief, released its findings of the bungling of our Afghanistan exit, he told …