🧨 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-alb…

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/magaz…

"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/7342815…

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/jo…

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=fxgg2CVq…

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.

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/william-p…

“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....

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. wapo.st/4wnrxPo

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. theatlantic.com/culture/2026…

Same vibes, different vantage point #DeeetroitBasketball

America’s two premier political reporters, teaming with the best nonfiction editor in the biz, writing the definitive account of Donald Trump's return to power and his disorienting final act? Yeah, counting the days (77) and smashing that preorder button. amazon.com/Regime-Change-Ins…

My guys @R_Allbritton and @timgrieve aren’t messing around. This is a generational opportunity to seize control of DC’s news landscape, and they’re going for it.