Susan B. Glasser (born January 14, 1969) is an American journalist. She writes the online column "Letter from Trump's Washington" inThe New Yorker, where she is a staff writer. She is the author, with her husbandPeter Baker, ofKremlin 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), andThe Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (2022).
Glasser interned, and later worked for eight years, atRoll Call.[11] In 1998, Glasser started atThe Washington Post,[11] where she spent a decade. She edited thePost's Sunday Outlook and national news sections, helped oversee coverage ofBill Clinton's impeachment, covered the warsin Iraq andin Afghanistan, and served as Moscow bureau co-chief with her husband, Peter Baker.
She was editor-in-chief ofForeign Policy until 2013.[11] Glasser then joinedPolitico and served as editor during the 2016 election cycle.[11] She also was the founding editor ofPolitico Magazine, a long-form publication both online and in print.[12]
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 aPolk Award in 2023 for reporting that led to the resignation ofMarc Tessier-Lavigne, the then president ofStanford University, who had allegedly manipulated images used in research papers.[15][16]
^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."
