Mary Anastasia O'Grady is an American editor, and columnist who works for The Wall Street Journal.

A 1975 graduate of Guilford (CT) Senior High School, O'Grady earned a bachelor's degree in English from Assumption College and later received an MBA from Pace University in financial management.

[1] She is well known for her positions regarding classical liberalism, her frontal rejection of leftist governments in the Americas and for being in favor of the legalization of drug trafficking[2] She has been characterized by her strong position against progressive governments, which has elicited responses from people such as former US President Jimmy Carter, who wrote an article in response to O'Grady.

[3] She has been criticized in the Salvadoran online newspaper Diario La Pagina for her support, through her columns, of the controversial and nepotistic privatization process in El Salvador.

In an article published on The Wall Street Journal, she linked Iran with the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador citing "secret intelligence sources.