Tim Alberta

staff writer @TheAtlantic | author of "American Carnage" (2019) and "The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory" (2023) | perplexed, but not in despair

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

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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:

https://t.co/8spoYNK93r

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

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: https://t.co/uLh9PADsuG

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

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

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

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.

[Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswan]

Some very unusual stuff happened in the White House Situation Room last summer. Adapted from @maggieNYT and my forthcoming book, "Regime Change" - gift link: https://t.co/mxkrYAwqFV

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

"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

https://t.co/gNCIDTZI7A

[The Atlantic Communications @TheAtlanticPR]

Congratulations to staff writers @AshleyRParker and @michaelscherer for receiving the 39th annual @PresGeraldRFord Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. Read more: https://t.co/36XMZ5nA7S

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

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.

https://t.co/dpftCjgUIo

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

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

[Ed O'Keefe @edokeefe]

WATCH: @DrBiden tells @CBSSunday @joebiden’s debate performance “scared me to death” because she thought he was having a stroke. And says she’s never seen him like that before or since. https://t.co/fZhf6qBijQ

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

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.

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

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.
https://t.co/xSMUDOrHcC

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

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

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

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

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

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.

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

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.

[Louis Riddick @LRiddickESPN]

James Harden flopping around on the ground like that after trying to con the refs into calling a foul is such a effing joke. It’s so bad. As much as I love watching basketball, that sh!t is so tiring and old.

[Reese Gorman @reesejgorman]

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.

https://t.co/fhn93tHA4g

[The Domonique Foxworth Show @FoxworthShow]

“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....

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

About 1 in 4 Americans think the April shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner was staged according to a new survey.

Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents said they believed the event was staged, compared with about 1 in 8 Republicans. https://t.co/h30QujSIO2

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

I first approached Adam Silver about an interview last year, sensing the NBA was near a moment of institutional testing. Neither of us knew what lie ahead.

My look at a commissioner under fire, a league in transition, and a game searching for identity.

https://t.co/4tDQ3n1foi

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

@MarcACaputo Apple didn’t fall far. Hang in there pal.

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

I first approached Adam Silver about an interview last year, sensing the NBA was near a moment of institutional testing. Neither of us knew what lie ahead.

My look at a commissioner under fire, a league in transition, and a game searching for identity.

https://t.co/4tDQ3n1foi

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

Same vibes, different vantage point

#DeeetroitBasketball

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

I've elaborated a bit here

https://t.co/FqEDgiMmyj

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

My conviction remains:

God did not ordain Donald Trump to rescue the American church, or revive the American church, or redeem the American church.

God ordained Donald Trump to test the American church. And the American church has failed.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Trump shares image depicting himself as Jesus Christ.