1st Amendment rights and freedom of speech in America.
Kimberley Strassel graduated with a B.A. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 1994 after completing a senior thesis, titled "The Democratization of the Russian Secret Security and Intelligence Apparatus", under the supervision of Aaron Friedberg.[4] Strassel immediately took a position at The Wall Street Journal upon graduation.
At the WSJ Kim was a news assistant for the European edition of The Wall Street Journal in Brussels (1994–1996) and a staff writer covering technology for The Wall Street Journal Europe in London (1996–1999). She moved to New York in 1999 to cover real estate before joining the editorial page as an assistant features editor.
She became a senior editorial writer and member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal in 2005. In 2007, she began writing the long-running "Potomac Watch" column for The Wall Street Journal which is found in the Friday edition each week.
She has written three books and in 2014 she was awarded the Bradley Prize from the conservative Bradley Foundation.
In February 2016, Strassel was among the panelists for a Republican presidential primary debate held in South Carolina.