Susan B. Glasser (born January 14, 1969) is an American journalist and news editor. She writes the online column "Letter from Biden’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).
Glasser interned, and later worked for eight years at
Roll Call.[10] In 1998, Glasser started at The Washington Post,[10] where she spent a decade. She edited the Post's 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.[10] Glasser then joined
Politico,[10] 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.[11]
Works
Baker, Peter; Glasser, Susan (2005). Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution. Simon & Schuster.
ISBN978-0-7432-8179-9.
Baker, Peter; Glasser, Susan (September 20, 2022). The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
ISBN978-0-385-54654-6.
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 allegedly manipulated images used in research papers.[14][15]