Sasha Issenberg is the "Victory Lab" columnist for Slate and the Washington correspondent for Monocle, where he covers politics, business, diplomacy, and culture. He covered the 2008 election as a national political reporter in the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe, and his work has also appeared in New York, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Monthly, Inc., The Atlantic, Boston, Philadelphia, and George, where he served as a contributing editor.

His first book, The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy, was published by Gotham in 2007.

Selected Work:

• Philadelphia Boo-Boos in Paradise

  David Brooks is the public intellectual of the moment. But our writer found out he doesn't check his facts. (April 2004)

• New YorkBorn This Way

  The new weird science of hardwired political identity. (April 8, 2012)

• SlateDick Knows 

  The Watergate movie that got it right. (June 6, 2005)

• The New York Times MagazineNudge the Vote

  How behavioral science is remaking politics. (October 31, 2010)

• The Washington MonthlyThe Simplest Life

  Why Americans romanticize the Amish. (October 2004)

• New YorkWith These Words

  A gay-marriage court ruling becomes a hit at straight weddings. (July 27, 2012)

• The Boston GlobeInventing John McCain

  John McCain, maverick icon of American duty and patriotism, is as much a literary creation as a political one. Meet the author. (April 13, 2008)

• Legal AffairsShanghaied

  Mr. Liu keeps film buffs in Fassbinder, Kurosawa, and Antonioni. Cheap. (March/April 2006)

• PhiladelphiaThe Great Days of John Street

  The Mayor’s legacy is shaping up to be a hailstorm of scandal, a soaring deficit, and a rude reputation. So why on earth is he so happy? (May 2005)

• BostonThe $700,000 Pyramid 

  Alan Solomont has never been shy about asking fellow fat cats to write big checks for Democratic candidates. This time around, the elite fundraiser is going after students and their beer money. (June 2007)