Tim Alberta

🧨 I've written a book. About Christianity. About being a pastor's kid. About the evangelical church idolizing America at the expense of its witness for Jesus Christ. Four years of reporting. A lifetime of reflection. I'd be honored if you pre-ordered: axios.com/2023/06/15/tim…

Americans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels. For The Atlantic’s August issue, @rosehorowitch explores the reading collapse—and its effects on civilization: theatln.tc/BYL9zqM8

"But a goal will not count if a player is offsides." "When is a player offsides?" "Whenever anything exciting happens."

DC folks: I'll be in conversation with @maggieNYT & @jonathanvswan tonight for the Politics and Prose rollout of REGIME CHANGE. Join us at Sidwell Friends: politics-prose.com/haberman-and-s…

In the presence of greatness: Swan, Maggie, and their editor, Jonathan Jao, have produced a work of nonfiction for the ages — featuring some of the most consequential reporting on the presidency in American history.

It's been years since a nonfiction debut achieved this velocity. TENS of thousands of copies of REGIME CHANGE sold in a few *HOURS*. Amazon is flat out of books. Physical books are hard to come by nationwide. Congrats to @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan for the earthquake proving nonfiction publishing is far from dead.

with World Cup 2026 in full swing, highly recommend the new "Soccernomics" podcast hosted by my friend @amalhotra2 (feat. the guys who wrote the book!) podcasts.apple.com/cy/podcast/the…

Excerpt from REGIME CHANGE, by @jonathanvswan and me: Inside the internal alarm at Trump and his powerful adviser, Stephen Miller, looking to upend basic due process rights just months into the administration. Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/…

PS still hate the Knicks, can’t wait to beat em next spring

When NBA playoff basketball is at its best, nothing can compare — the drama, the cultural consequence, the generational echo. The hoop gods are officially smiling upon us. (Try to imagine, right now, a Thunder vs. Cavs final😬) A game for the ages. And the series we all needed.

Some very unusual stuff happened in the White House Situation Room last summer. Adapted from @maggieNYT and my forthcoming book, "Regime Change" - gift link: nytimes.com/2026/06/10/mag…

"Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, had to die before that sport would forgive him for betting on his own team. But a Big 12 quarterback? Two-game suspension." @slmandel brings it nytimes.com/athletic/73428…

Congratulations to staff writers @AshleyRParker and @michaelscherer for receiving the 39th annual @PresGeraldRFord Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. Read more: geraldrfordfoundation.org/journalism-awa…

New pod: WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE NBA? I talked to @TimAlberta about basketball's era of bad vibes—tanking, flopping, load-managing, ratings woes, worthless regular season games—and his profile of Adam Silver, under whom team valuations have septupled despite this deluge of negativity. The themes of this pod are the cultural themes of our times, especially the downsides of treating culture like a publicly traded firm seeking to maximize earnings-per-share, and the way that efforts to optimize cultural products for profitability tend to degrade something essential to the thing itself. We also talk about how villains in sports are great for sports—but something else happens when fans start to believe that the sport itself, and the establishment figures charged with managing it, are the real villains. youtube.com/watch?v=fxgg2C…

sooo she thought her husband / the president was having a stroke but clapped along to chants of "four more years!" the next morning?

Can’t remember the last time I cried at the written word. But sitting here sobbing at the last paragraph, “an exercise in daydreaming.” I’ve done lots of daydreaming. So have millions of other special-needs parents. What a blessing Sean — and sweet Judson — are to our community.

@SeanTrende Sean, I’m weeping as I read and re-read that final paragraph. Thank you for sharing Judson with us.

I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them. realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/…

Truly one of the most poorly officiated playoff series I’ve ever watched. An insult to fans.

Sure, NBA media partners might criticize individual calls. But would any dare to issue this sort of systemic rebuke to the league and its product? Nah—leave it to the NFL guy. @LRiddickESPN is right: Last night's antics and officiating were a disgrace to the game of basketball.

New: Sen. Rand Paul’s son drunkenly accosted and hurled anti-Semitic insults at Rep. Mike Lawler at a Capitol Hill bar on Tuesday night. His son told Lawler that if Rep Thomas Massie loses, it’s going to be because of “your people.” “My people?” Lawler asked Paul. “Yeah, you Jews,” Paul responded.  “Do you think I’m Jewish?” Lawler asked. “I’m not.” “Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said.  He then said that Jews were “anti-American” and how Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel more than America. notus.org/congress/willi…

“It does feel like Adam Silver doesn’t have a single guiding principle other than: Increase profit.” – @Foxworth24 👀 Did @TimAlberta's article on Adam Silver change your opinion of him? A deep-dive into the commissioner, on today's episode....