Sasha Issenberg is the Washington correspondent for Monocle, where he covers politics, business, diplomacy, and culture. He has been a national political reporter in the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe, where he reported on the 2008 presidential campaign from 38 states and six countries. He has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Conde Nast Portfolio, The Washington Monthly, Inc., Boston, Philadelphia, George, where he served as a contributing editor. THE SUSHI ECONOMY is his first book.

He is now working on another, to be called THE VICTORY LAB and published in the fall of 2012 by Crown. A sneak preview from it, RICK PERRY AND HIS EGGHEADS: INSIDE THE BRAINIEST POLITICAL OPERATION IN AMERICA, has been released as a short ebook and is available wherever digital books are sold.

Selected work:

The New York Times Magazine
Nudge the Vote
What’s even better than getting Lady Gaga to play your Election Day rally? Sending out a mailing that applies a subtle dose of peer pressure. How behavioral science is remaking politics. (October 31, 2010)

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)

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

Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
The Long-Distance Runner
While other 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls crash, burn, and sputter, Mitt Romney has quietly been raising millions, casting himself as a New Hampshire son, keeping cozy with the NRA, and otherwise perfecting his Mr. Perfect approach. (August 30, 2009)

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

The Boston Globe
Allied Powers
The rise of the global airline alliance, the fall of the national carrier and the fate of sovereignty in the skies. (November 19, 2006)

Boston
The $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 college students and their beer money. (June 2007)

Inc.
The Kerry Pitch
John Kerry, entrepreneur. (October 2004)

The Washington Monthly
The Simplest Life
Why Americans romanticize the Amish. (October 2004)

The Boston Globe
Political Realist Now Follows His Own Path
Profile of John McCain. (November 23, 2007)

Philadelphia
The 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)