Alexandra Petri

Washington, D.C.

Columnist offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day

Education: Harvard College, BA in English, Classics Secondary Field

Alexandra Petri is a Washington Post columnist offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day.

Petri is the author of "A.P.'s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)" and the essay collections "Nothing Is Wrong And Here Is Why" and "A Field Guide to Awkward Silences." She joined The Post as an intern in 2010 after graduating from Harvard College.
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Chat with Alexandra Petri and tell her your jokes

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June 25, 2024

What’s your spending splurge? I was taking your jokes.

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June 18, 2024

Want to be Trump’s VP? Let these stingrays swarm your mother.

To … save Trump? No! Just because!

June 18, 2024
Your political future is there, in the water! It's fine! Jump in!

Signs your Sinclair station is injecting propaganda into local news

Traffic reporter keeps blaming gridlock on ‘the deep state.’

June 17, 2024

Alito worries leaked remarks will undermine hard-won vindictive image

‘What if I’d said something temperate or reasonable?’

June 13, 2024
Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. testifies about the court's budget on  March 7, 2019, in D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

What’s a dog’s favorite Shakespeare play? I was taking your jokes.

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June 11, 2024

I’m your new AI search assistant! I want you to eat glue and die.

You wanted to review search results yourself? Too bad!

June 6, 2024
Bins filled with bottles of liquid glue are displayed in the school-supplies section of a Target store in Aurora, Colo., in July 2022. (David Zalubowski/AP)

How can you tell if two people will marry? I was taking your jokes.

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June 4, 2024

Donald Trump needs YOUR HELP to get vengeance on the evil RULE OF LAW

Any little bit helps toward freeing this nation from the iron thumb of the justice system!

May 31, 2024
A demonstrator is ordered to leave an area reserved for the media before closing arguments in Donald Trump’s hush money trial at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Wednesday. (Aristide Economopoulos for The Washington Post)

Twelve Angry Trump Jurors

Eleven hands go up. All heads swivel to Juror 8.

May 30, 2024
The jury watches a video shown by the prosecution in former president Donald Trump's New York criminal trial. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)