Susan B. Glasser (born January 14, 1969) is an American journalist. She writes the online column "Letter from Trump's Washington" in The New Yorker, where she is a staff writer.
She is the author, with her husband Peter Baker, of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (2005), The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (2020), and The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (2022).
Early life and education Glasser is the daughter of Lynn (née Schreiber) and Stephen Glasser. She is of Jewish descent. Her parents are the founders of a weekly legal newspaper, Legal Times, and a legal and business publishing company, Glasser Legal Works. Her grandfather, Melvin Glasser, supervised the field trials for the polio vaccine.
She was raised in Montclair, New Jersey, and attended Montclair High School, before transferring to Phillips Academy after her sophomore year.Orel, Gwen. "Open Book/Open Mind: Montclair native Susan Glasser and Peter Baker", Montclair Local, November 29, 2020. Accessed February 22, 2025. "Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker, grew up in Montclair.... She worked on the newspaper at Montclair High School before she left to spend junior and senior year at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass." Glasser graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where she served as the managing editor of The Harvard Crimson.
Career Glasser interned, and later worked for eight years, at Roll Call. In 1998, Glasser started at The Washington Post, where she spent a decade. She edited the Post Sunday Outlook and national news sections, helped oversee coverage of Bill Clinton's impeachment, covered the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and served as Moscow bureau co-chief with her husband, Peter Baker.
She was editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy until 2013. Glasser then joined Politico and served as editor during the 2016 election cycle. She also was the founding editor of Politico Magazine, a long-form publication both online and in print.
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Personal life In September 2000, Glasser married Peter Baker in a civil ceremony. Her husband is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. Baker and Glasser live in Washington.
Their son, Theo Baker, became the youngest person to win a Polk Award in 2023 for reporting that led to the resignation of Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the then president of Stanford University, who had published research articles that contained manipulated images.
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Letter from Biden's Washington columns from newyorker.com Letter from Trump's Washington columns from newyorker.com