Tim Alberta Biography
Tim Alberta is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and staff writer for The Atlantic magazine. He started working at The Atlantic in March 2021. Alberta is the author of “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism” and “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump.” Before joining The Atlantic, he was the chief political correspondent for POLITICO.
Tim Alberta Age
Alberta is 38 years old as of 2024. He was born on January 26, 1986.
Tim Alberta Height
He is 1.82 meters tall.
Tim Alberta Nationality
He is American.
Tim Alberta Education
Alberta graduated from Brighton High School in 2004. After high school, he attended Michigan State University, graduating in 2008 with a journalism and political science degree.
Tim Alberta Parents and Sibling
Tim was born to parents Richard and Donna Alberta. When he was five, the family moved from New York State to Brighton, Michigan, where his father was appointed pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Presbyterian Church. On July 29, 2019, at the age of 71, Richard Alberta, a long-time evangelical pastor, suffered a major heart attack and passed away shortly after. Tim has an older brother named Brian Alberta.
Tim Alberta Wife and Kids
Tim is married to Sweta Ashokkumar. They got married in 2013 and have three boys. Sweta has extensive knowledge of early childhood care and has been working as the Program & Membership Associate for the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative since 2017. They reside in southeast Michigan.
Tim Alberta The Atlantic magazine
Tim is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and staff writer for The Atlantic magazine. He formerly served as chief political correspondent for POLITICO. In 2019, he published the critically acclaimed 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 aired by PBS Newshour.
Hailing from Brighton, Michigan, Tim attended Schoolcraft College and later Michigan State University, where his plans to become a baseball writer were changed by a stint covering the legislature in Lansing. He went on to spend more than a decade in Washington, reporting for publications including the Wall Street Journal, The Hotline, National Journal, and National Review. Having covered the biggest stories in national politics—the battles over health care and immigration on Capitol Hill; the election and presidency of Donald Trump; and the ideological warfare between and within the two parties—Tim was eager for a new challenge.
In 2019, he moved home to Michigan. Rather than cover the 2020 campaign through the eyes of the candidates, Tim roved the country and reported from gun shows and farmers’ markets, black cookouts and white suburbs, crowded wholesale stores, and shuttered small businesses. He wrote a regular “Letter to Washington” that kept upstream from politics, focusing less on manifest partisan divisions and more on elusive root causes: the hollowing out of communities, the diminished faith in vital institutions, the self-perpetuating cycle of cultural antagonism, the diverging economic realities for wealthy and working-class citizens, the rapid demographic makeover of America—and the corollary spikes in racism and xenophobia.
Tim joined The Atlantic in March 2021 with a mandate to keep roaming and writing and telling stories that strike at the heart of America’s discontent. His work has been featured in dozens of other publications nationwide, including Sports Illustrated and Vanity Fair, and he frequently appears as a commentator on television programs in the United States and around the world. Tim’s first book, “American Carnage,” debuted at No. 1 and No. 2 on the Washington Post and New York Times best-seller lists, respectively.
His latest book, The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, has been a bestseller since it debuted in late 2023.
Tim Alberta Salary
Alberta earns an average base salary of $49,028.
Tim Alberta Net Worth
Alberta’s net worth is not publicly disclosed.
