about
Tim Alberta is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and staff writer for The Atlantic magazine. Hailing from Brighton, Michigan, he attended Schoolcraft College and later Michigan State University, where his plans to become a baseball writer were altered by a serendipitous stint covering the legislature in Lansing.
He went on to spend more than a decade in Washington, reporting for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, National Journal and National Review. Tim would ultimately serve as chief political correspondent for POLITICO before moving back to Michigan and joining The Atlantic in 2021.
In 2019 he released his first book, "American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump," and co-moderated the year's final Democratic presidential debate. In 2023 he followed up with, "The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism," and in 2024 he won a National Magazine Award for his profile of Chris Licht, the chairman of CNN Worldwide, who was fired after the story published.
Tim's work has been featured in dozens of other publications, including Sports Illustrated and Vanity Fair. He appears regularly as a commentator on American television programs and speaks on politics, culture, and religion at forums around the world. He lives in southeast Michigan with his wife and three sons.
He went on to spend more than a decade in Washington, reporting for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, National Journal and National Review. Tim would ultimately serve as chief political correspondent for POLITICO before moving back to Michigan and joining The Atlantic in 2021.
In 2019 he released his first book, "American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump," and co-moderated the year's final Democratic presidential debate. In 2023 he followed up with, "The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism," and in 2024 he won a National Magazine Award for his profile of Chris Licht, the chairman of CNN Worldwide, who was fired after the story published.
Tim's work has been featured in dozens of other publications, including Sports Illustrated and Vanity Fair. He appears regularly as a commentator on American television programs and speaks on politics, culture, and religion at forums around the world. He lives in southeast Michigan with his wife and three sons.
