About Debra J. Saunders

Debra J. Saunders

Debra J. Saunders is the Washington columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She served as White House correspondent for The RJ during President Donald Trump's first term.

Before Trump, Saunders wrote an opinion column for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Daily News. Between Trump's terms, she was a senior fellow at The Discovery Institute.

She graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a B.A. in Greek and Latin.

Her column is nationally syndicated with Creators.

President Looks in the Mirror and Sees a Nobel Peace Prize Oct 14, 2025

WASHINGTON — For the last 20 living Israeli hostages who spent 738 awful days in captivity — starved, isolated and afraid — the worst nightmare is behind them. "The war is over," President Donald Trump told Politico's Dasha Burns on... Read More

The New Editor-in-Chief of CBS News Is Not Like the Others Oct 13, 2025

WASHINGTON — The knives are out for CBS News' new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. Because she succeeded. Paramount, which owns CBS, is buying The Free Press, the news organization she co-founded, reportedly for about $150 million in cash and stock... Read More

Virginia Attorney General Race May Show Proof of the Charlie Kirk Effect Oct 09, 2025

WASHINGTON — In a better world, Democrats would be running at full speed away from Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee in the Virginia attorney general race. As the National Review reported Oct. 3, in 2022, Jones, a former lawmaker, actually fant... Read More

2 Years Later, 'Much of the World No Longer Remembers Oct. 7' Oct 01, 2025

WASHINGTON — The brutal Hamas-led attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, left some 1,200 dead. I never would have predicted that, two years later, Hamas would continue to imprison hostages, refuse to release the bodies of dead detainees and still b... Read More

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