“What is it with Democrats and their hostility to schools that offer poor minority kids the best ticket out of generational poverty and disadvantage?”

Australian-American columnist and writer

Miranda Devine is a conservative Australian-American columnist and writer based in New York City. She is known for her political commentary and for work across Australian and American newspapers and radio, including a long-running role on Sydney station 2GB until 2015. Her columns have appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, as well as in News Limited papers including the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Melbourne's Sunday Herald Sun, and Perth's Sunday Times. Since 2022, she has written for the New York Post. Some of her opinion pieces on politics, the environment, race, and social issues have drawn criticism for misrepresenting facts and for provocative journalism.