sports and <a class="in-cell-link" href=https://nypost.com/author/kirsten-fleming/"https://nypost.com/politics/">politics. Previously, she was a senior features reporter covering the intersection of sports and culture, lifestyle and quirky New York City-centric tales. She also reported on city crime and local news. Kirsten lives in Manhattan and graduated from Providence College.</span></p> " />
Kirsten Fleming

Kirsten Fleming

Kirsten Fleming is a features columnist at the New York Post.

Background

Kirsten writes about a variety of topics across pop culture, sports and politics. Previously, she was a senior features reporter covering the intersection of sports and culture, lifestyle and quirky New York City-centric tales. She also reported on city crime and local news. Kirsten lives in Manhattan and graduated from Providence College.

Latest Articles

Hey, Anna Wintour — I dare you to put Usha Vance on the cover of Vogue

Second Lady Usha Vance is everything Vogue claims to champion. But the magazine has become all about naked partisanship and looks like a de-facto arm of the DNC.

Head wounds, freezing temps — nothing stopped Trump super fans from getting to his inauguration

"I expected to see protesters, but I guess they couldn't withstand the cold," one Trump supporter said of the lack of antagonists outside the inauguration.

Is the MTA trolling us all with this latest attempt at stopping fare-beating?

New York will do anything to combat farebeating — except actually arresting people for it.

Both sides stink to high heaven in the viral fight between Eagles and Packers fans

There are no heroes here. One party is a foul-mouthed man child; the other, an enthusiastic participant in our pervasive snitch culture.

How Gavin Newsom has failed California and set fire to his own political prospects

The emperor has no clothes — and no empathy. It's likely, though, he still does have a standing reservation at the French Laundry. Of course, it's Gavin Newsom, of whom...

If MTA boss thinks gaslighting New Yorkers will fix the subways, it's in his own head

MTA boss Janno Lieber is gaslighting New Yorkers, claiming that subway crime is in our heads.

Farewell to Justin Trudeau — the wokest man ever to wear blackface — taken down by his own virtue-signaling

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that he's calling it quits. Adieu to the wokest man to ever wear blackface.

Hilaria Baldwin's latest cooking caper shows her Spanglish grift is here to stay, no matter how delusional

Boston bred Hillary Hayward-Thomas – who at some point in her life swam in the glistening waters off Majorca and re-christened herself Hilaria – is back with another Spanglish ooopsie...

Underwear ads, the KHive and roasted Tom Brady: the big winners and losers of 2024

This year came in like a drunk on a weeklong bender — and left like a glue-sniffing drunk on a yearlong bender. In other words, what the hell just happened...

Why did no one help her? Fatal subway burning exposes New York City's sad disconnect to humanity

There's a chilling apathy toward our fellow citizens — and a gross fascination with filming on our phones, not intervening. 

'Perversion of compassion' and Gov. Hochul's lack of leadership are dooming NYC: Rep. Ritchie Torres

Rep. Ritchie Torres is speaking the truth: That New York City, the greatest city in the world, has accepted woefully subpar conditions on our subways and streets — and it has...

Harry & Meghan can't read the room — and their 'Polo' dud and try-hard Christmas card prove it again

These two are great at one thing: exploiting the royal family. Not producing TV shows or podcasts or, I predict, selling jam.

Latest Caitlin Clark controversy plays into the worst stereotypes about women — and wages war on merit

Get over it: Without Caitlin Clark, the WNBA isn't even sniffing a fraction of the relevance it's had this year.

Nearly 1K drone sightings reported in NJ in less than a month

There have been nearly 1,000 reported drone sightings in New Jersey in less than a month, according to data collected by the state's Office of Emergency Management.

The Daniel Penny acquittal was exactly what NYC needed: a reminder to protect each other

This case had the potential to completely destroy the delicate and implicit understanding that we, as New Yorkers who live and travel in sometimes-unnatural intimacy, are here for each other.

Daniel Penny has proven there's no case against him -- he should be cleared today

The negligent homicide charge Daniel Penny faces today as the jury reconvenes is a face-saving measure for a farce, the last-ditch effort for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Daniel Penny case closing arguments bring pressure and tension to Manhattan court, as case nears the jury

“He was not dying due to Danny squeezing him to death. He was dying because he was being deprived of oxygen internally due to his medical condition,” said defense attorney...

Daniel Penny’s family praying for him as trial is set to go to the jury: 'His strength has encouraged us'

“We’re blessed and grateful for everything we do have. We have each other,” Penny’s mother Gina Flaim-Penny told me on the eve of Thanksgiving.

Sharon Stone and Alec Baldwin told us what they really think of Americans — and it's incredibly insulting

Alec Baldwin and Sharon Stone believe they will be the ones to enlighten us — to save civilization from the marauding MAGA-ites running roughshod over our union.

Straight-talking defense witness for Daniel Penny planted real, reasonable doubt about chokehold death

Chundru said Neely had already expired or was going through the dying process when he went limp.