Sasha Issenberg
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An editor for POLITICO and author of books including @Engagement_Book, @victorylab, "The Sushi Economy" and "The Lie Detectives".
Joined February 2009
My book "THE LIE DETECTIVES: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age" is out now. It covers what I consider the most urgent frontier of political innovation: how to track, measure and respond to online disinformation. —>
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Journalist Sasha Issenberg's latest book is "The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age."
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2025 saw the most redraws in a non-census year since the 1984 election cycle. How — and why —it all went down. W/ @andrewjfhoward
https://t.co/LHlweMZYd8
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How Donald Trump launched a redistricting caper he couldn’t pull off.
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Don’t begin your NYE festivities before taking in this monster of a story on the Great Redistricting Caper of 2025
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How Donald Trump launched a redistricting caper he couldn’t pull off.
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“Mr. President is on my payroll but I know he is not requesting a work review; I decline the offer” Incredible new details from start to finish in this @adamwren @andrewjfhoward reconstruction of the Great Redistricting War of 2025 Read it today👇 https://t.co/FHla4Jkkjw
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How Donald Trump launched a redistricting caper he couldn’t pull off.
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New: Our narrative recounting of the redistricting fight that defined 2025. It’s long and full of news. Give it a read. w/ @adamwren
https://t.co/kz6WL8augC
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How Donald Trump launched a redistricting caper he couldn’t pull off.
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Drawing blood
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How Donald Trump launched a redistricting caper he couldn’t pull off.
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Issenberg Assignment Desk: investigative report on the death of hard candy and the market dominance of chewy
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Zooey Deschanel must be feeling pretty good now about having added Hillary Clinton to Dylan’s presidents verse in “Must Be Santa.”
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Have you ever thought the "Almanac of American Politics" was ripe for a new-journalism punch-up? Read @wrmccart's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test of Contiguity in @POLITICOMag:
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Get your news from a program that can’t generate an image of its on-air talent without using artificial intelligence
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New: For 16 North American cities, World Cup planning enters a new phase today when they find out which teams will play in their cities. “It’s kind of like Christmas Eve right now,” Miami official Mathew Ratner told me yesterday. w/ @ryrivard
https://t.co/ML6aEx3Ajz
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Local governments learn which countries they’ll welcome at next summer’s World Cup: “That conversation is very different between England and Panama and Curaçao, right?”
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Your smart read on day-after-the-draw politics from @SophiaCai99 and @ryrivard
The day the World Cup gets real for North American cities
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The day the World Cup gets real for North American cities https://t.co/KVdLOnLo6O w/ @SophiaCai99
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Local governments learn which countries they’ll welcome at next summer’s World Cup: “That conversation is very different between England and Panama and Curaçao, right?”
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Gianni Infantino's Trump problem: Can FIFA's president keep winning over Donald Trump without losing the world? https://t.co/z7DA6QUEw2
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Can FIFA's president keep winning over Donald Trump without losing the world?
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Does FIFA have a MAGA problem? @SophiaCai99 with some amazing reporting about how Gianni Infantino's success cultivating Donald Trump is causing problems with the sports insiders who decide whether he gets another term as soccer's global boss.
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Can FIFA's president keep winning over Donald Trump without losing the world?
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As the world watches the FIFA president flatter Trump with gifts and awards, read @SophiaCai99 on why this dynamic matters so much
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Can FIFA's president keep winning over Donald Trump without losing the world?
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Does FIFA have a MAGA problem? @SophiaCai99 with some amazing reporting about how Gianni Infantino's success cultivating Donald Trump is causing problems with the sports insiders who decide whether he gets another term as soccer's global boss.
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Can FIFA's president keep winning over Donald Trump without losing the world?
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The VP of FIFA - who is close to PM Mark Carney - thinks the president of FIFA is courting Trump too much. The rift grew as Trump reignited tensions with Ottawa over Ford's anti-tariff ad. Today won't be awkward at all. Story by @SophiaCai99 👇 https://t.co/adFig7UmhC
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Can FIFA's president keep winning over Donald Trump without losing the world?
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