Julia Ioffe

About

Julia Ioffe is a Russian-born American journalist and author known for her reporting on Russian politics, US foreign policy, national security, and international affairs. Born in Moscow in 1982, she immigrated to the United States with her family in 1990. She later graduated from Princeton University and began her journalism career as a fact-checker at The New Yorker in 2005. Ioffe has reported for some of the most influential publications in American journalism, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and Politico. She spent three years working as a correspondent in Moscow, covering Russian politics and society, before returning to the United States. She is currently a founding partner and Washington correspondent at the media company Puck, where she writes about national security, foreign policy, and American politics. In 2025, Ioffe published Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy, combining family memoir, historical research, and political analysis to examine women’s experiences across generations of Russian history. The book was a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Through her journalism and writing, Ioffe explores the connections between political power, cultural identity, and the personal experiences of people living through historical change.