Sanger (born July 5, 1960 in White Plains, New York) is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times.
A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Sanger has been writing for the Times for 30 years covering foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, and the presidency. He has been a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer Prize, and has been awarded numerous honors for national security and foreign policy coverage.
He is the author of three books: Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power (Crown, June 2012); The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (Harmony, 2009), which was a best-seller; and The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age (Crown, 2018).