Alec MacGillis covers politics and government for ProPublica, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, New York, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. MacGillis was previously a reporter for the New Republic, the Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun, and was awarded the 2016 Robin Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the 2017 Polk Award for National Reporting.