Tim Alberta is an author, award-winning journalist, and staff writer for The Atlantic. He formerly served as chief political correspondent for POLITICO. In 2019, he published American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, which debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, and co-moderated the year's final Democratic presidential debate. In 2023, he published The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, which spent 11 weeks on the Times bestseller list. He lives in Michigan with his wife and three sons.