Sasha Abramsky

Sasha Abramsky (born 4 April 1972) is a British-born freelance journalist and author who now lives in the United States. Abramsky writes the weekly "Authoritarian Watch" column for The Nation magazine (since January 2026). His work has appeared in many other publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, New York, The Village Voice, and Rolling Stone.

Early life and education Abramsky was born in England to a Jewish family and was raised in London, in what Debbie Arrington described as "an accomplished and bookish family". He is the son of Jack Abramsky, a mathematician, and the grandson of Chimen Abramsky, a professor of Jewish studies at University College London, who was himself the son of Yehezkel Abramsky, a prominent Orthodox rabbi.

Abramsky earned a B.A. from Balliol College, Oxford in politics, philosophy and economics in 1993. He then traveled to the United States, where he earned a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2000, he received a Crime and Communities Media Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations.