Issenberg was born to a
Jewish family and is a 2002 graduate of
Swarthmore College. In 2016, he covered the 2016 presidential campaign for Bloomberg News. In 2016, he co-founded the company
Votecastr, to track the
2016 Presidential Election in real-time, publishing the results of turnout tracking at Poll Locations online throughout the day. In 2018, he was named the UC Regents' Professor at UCLA, where he taught a course on understanding presidential campaign victories through the stories reporters, academics, and historians tell about those victories. His writing typically focuses on politics, business, diplomacy, and culture. Issenberg covered the 2008 election as a reporter for
The Boston Globe. ==Books==