Ryan Lizza is
The New Yorker magazine's Washington correspondent and a CNN contributor. Sasha Issenberg is a political journalist for Slate.com and author of
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns. Part of the Harkin Institute of Public Policy's Symposium on Social Science, Presidential Campaigns, and Political Reporting.
Ryan Lizza joined The New Yorker after working at The New Republic, where he was a political correspondent from 1998 to 2007, covering the White House and Presidential politics. Sasha Issenberg covered the 2008 presidential campaign for the Boston Globe as a national political reporter.