Kirsten Powers (born December 14, 1967) is an American and democrat author, columnist, and political analyst. Powers currently writes for USA Today, and is an on-air political analyst at CNN, where she appears regularly on Anderson Cooper 360°, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and The Lead with Jake Tapper.


Powers previously worked at Fox News as a political analyst and contributor, where she appeared on Special Report with Bret Baier, Fox News Sunday, The Kelly File and The O’Reilly Factor.

Powers served in the Clinton administration as the deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for public affairs.

She left to become the vice president for international communications at America Online.[ After AOL’s merger with Time Warner, she became a vice president at the AOL-Time Warner Foundation.

Kirsten Powers briefly dated former Congressman Anthony Weiner in 2002, and remained his close friend after their romantic relationship ended. After initially defending him when the story of Weiner’s sexting scandal surfaced in May 2011, Powers later condemned his conduct and called for his resignation from Congress.

Powers was raised as an Episcopalian but spent much of her early adult life as an atheist. In her mid-30s, she became an evangelical Christian. On October 10, 2015, Powers was received into the Catholic Church.

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