Tim Alberta (born January 26, 1986) is an American journalist and author. He has written articles for The Hotline, the Wall Street Journal, National Journal, National Review, Politico, and The Atlantic. After college, Alberta interned for the Wall Street Journal; by 2017, he was an established journalist in Washington.He worked for the National Review before joining Politico and later The Atlantic. In 2019, Alberta published his first book,
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump. Shortly afterward, Alberta's father died, and upon returning to Michigan to attend the funeral, he was reprimanded by several members of his father's church who objected to the coverage of Trump in his journalism; one congregant said Alberta was "part of an evil plot [...] out to undermine God's ordained leader of the United States". Disturbed by this experience, Alberta began studying the relationship between American Evangelical Christianity and the radical right, which became his second book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, published in 2023.
American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump. Shortly afterward, Alberta's father died, and upon returning to Michigan to attend the funeral, he was reprimanded by several members of his father's church who objected to the coverage of Trump in his journalism; one congregant said Alberta was "part of an evil plot [...] out to undermine God's ordained leader of the United States". Disturbed by this experience, Alberta began studying the relationship between American Evangelical Christianity and the radical right, which became his second book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, published in 2023.
February 10, 2025: Student Life reported: Journalist and author Tim Alberta’s Graham Chapel lecture “The Crisis of American Christianity,” held on Feb. 5 by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, was one part sermon and one part analysis of Christianity’s relationship with American politics. Alberta is the son of a pastor, writes for The Atlantic, and was formerly the chief political correspondent at Politico. He began his lecture by using Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount as a pseudo-campaign speech to highlight how the American-Christian fixation on power is antithetical to the gospel. He then explained that the United States is not the holy nation or “new Israel” that some American Christians believe it to be.
Apr 29, 2025
The Atlantic staff writer Tim Alberta says Donald Trump’s support has seen “erosion across the board,” which could continue without a course correction from the president.
“Trump himself will probably never pay the price for this, but … the Republican Party, the institutions of conservatism in this country, they’re going to pay the price.”
Apr 29, 2025
The Atlantic staff writer Tim Alberta says Donald Trump’s support has seen “erosion across the board,” which could continue without a course correction from the president.
“Trump himself will probably never pay the price for this, but … the Republican Party, the institutions of conservatism in this country, they’re going to pay the price.”
December 3, 2025: Raw Story reported: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro accused former vice president Kamala Harris of telling “blatant lies” about him in her new book. The Democratic governor spoke to The Atlantic's Tim Alberta about the vetting process he underwent as Harris considered who to choose as her running mate during the 2024 presidential campaign, and the Washington Post reported that the typically composed Shapiro appeared to lose his cool over some claims in her post-campaign memoir "107 Days." "Harris wrote that, while interviewing Shapiro during the running mate selection process, he had 'mused that he would want to be in the room for every decision,' prompting Harris to tell him bluntly that 'a vice president is not a co-president,'" the Post wrote. "Harris wrote that she worried Shapiro 'would be unable to settle for a role as number two and that it would wear on our partnership.' She told him that on every day she was president, she’d have 'ninety-nine problems and my VP can’t be one.'"
"I think when you spend so much time swimming in these waters of ‘The end is near, they’re coming for us, brace yourself for this collision between the forces of good and evil,’ you actually start to not only anticipate it, but you start to look forward to it," - Tim Alberta
January 26, 2024: Baptist News Global reported: Professors who believed Colorado Springs — home to dozens of national and international evangelical parachurch ministries — should help people better understand evangelicalism finally got their wish..The Center for the Study of Evangelicalism at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs began its work this fall and makes its public debut Wednesday with a talk by Tim Alberta, author of the bestselling book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.
May 10, 2024: Northwestern Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported: As a preacher's kid, Tim Alberta is familiar with the evangelical world's inner workings. As Politico's former chief political correspondent, he has seen how the sausage is made on Capitol Hill.
December 26, 2023: AlterNetSky reported: This Christmas, a journalist raised in the evangelical tradition called on his fellow believers to confront the rise of Christian nationalism before it tears apart the fabric of society. In a recent essay for The Atlantic, journalist Tim Alberta — the son of a megachurch pastor who has identified as an evangelical since childhood — warned of the creeping threat that Christian nationalism poses to society as a whole.
December 27, 2023: MediaIte reported: Tim Alberta Confronted By Trump Fans at Funeral For His Pastor Father. They Didn’t See Me as a ‘Grieving Son’spoke in depth of how Donald Trump supporters accosted him during his father’s funeral over his various criticisms of the former president. The Atlantic reporter joined NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday’s Meet The Press to talk about his new book: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. In the book, Alberta speaks about the Christian values he held as the son of a pastor, Trump’ relationship with evangelicals, and how the Christian right has changed amid the former president’s political ascendance.
December 27, 2023: Raw Story reported: Many American evangelical Christians have taken on an apocalyptic view of the world in which they see former President Donald Trump as their sole savior against demonic forces, according to journalist Tim Alberta. In an interview with New York Times columnist Jame Coaston, Alberta discusses how evangelicals came to rationalize designating Trump as their savior despite his decades of documented un-Christian behavior.
December 31, 2023: Salt Lake Tribune reported: Roughly 24 percent of Americans consider themselves “born-again or evangelical,” but what that means — spiritually, culturally, politically — depends on whom you ask. For some evangelicals, the role of politics, particularly the politics of today’s Republican Party, has taken on deep importance, changing how they relate to their faith, their faith leadership and one another. Tim Alberta is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Christian with deep roots in evangelical circles — his father, Richard Alberta, was the longstanding pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Brighton, Mich. Mr. Alberta has written a new book on the evangelical world in the wake of Donald Trump, “The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.” We spoke recently about how some Christians have reshaped their views for political expediency, the role of celebrity in evangelical culture and how many “1776″ moments conservative evangelicals can possibly have left.