Sasha Issenberg

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. —> sashaissenberg.com

In Fox’s World Cup fanfic Robinho has been freed from a nine-year sentence in a Brazilian prison on rape charges so he can zonally mark Diego Luna off a corner

DNC should have skipped the middle man and had @sissenberg write the autopsy

What if there were a podcast whose conceit was interviewing people who didn't already have their own podcast?

Check out the whole interview, with @jmart On the Road (tm) in Baltimore with @iamwesmoore. politico.com/video/2026/05/…

Is it the #ThanksBiden pricing here? (And that's with a Maryland pol ordering a beer not Courvoisier.)

A special daddy-issues issue of @NYTSports today

All the press releases that are fit to print nytimes.com/athletic/72863…

You furnish the bullet points and I'll furnish the bullets

Uber, but for...?

New York and New Jersey are turning the World Cup into an interstate turf war dlvr.it/TSW658

The U.S., Canada and Mexico are figuring out how to stage a World Cup together. New York and New Jersey can’t. politico.com/news/2026/05/1…

“When politicians see something that’s going to get eyeballs and attention, they latch on. There’s a great opportunity to tell their narrative, whether it’s true or false,” says @AndrewHGiuliani. “We’re going to certainly tell our side of the story, which we believe to be true, and Democrats are going to tell their side of the story as well.” politico.com/news/2026/05/1…

The beautiful game meets America's ugly moment dlvr.it/TSSlZ6

The World Cup, swept into Washington’s partisan vortex, splits into red and blue. w/ @SophiaCai99 politico.com/news/2026/05/1…

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Inside the politics of the three North American World Cup hosts: Since the U.S. got the final draw and Mexico got the opening march, Canada goes to host the FIFA Congress in the hometown of CONCACAF President Victor Montagliani who has been seen as a potential challenger to Infantino. But I’m told Montagliani has no plans to challenge Infantino - he plans to serve out his term as head of CONCACAF that runs through 2027, and then seek another four-year term. Montagliani is close to Mark Carney, British Columbia Premier David Eby, and Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim. Putting the FIFA Congress in Canada took some maneuvering. In World Cup years, FIFA has often hosted its meeting in the host country days before kickoff, but the location of the opening match in Mexico City made that logistically unfeasible this year, a senior FIFA adviser tells me. In years without a global tournament, FIFA usually holds its congress in late winter, an unappealing option given Canada’s weather. But to keep the event on Canadian soil, organizers settled on a spring date in Vancouver. politico.com/news/2026/05/0…

The most Canadian sports story imaginable

@benwfreeman1 Republican presidential primary, 2012

Back to back debates is pretty wild. Is there any precedent for this???

Barbara Dane would have added a wicked new verse to that Malvina Reynolds song today

FIFA has deftly navigated Argentina’s military dictators, Russia’s oligarchs and Qatar’s royal family to get what it wants at previous World Cups. Soccer’s powerful governing body may have met its match this year in New Jersey’s elected politicians.