Alec MacGillis
Alec MacGillis covers politics for ProPublica. Formerly a staff writer at Slate, MacGillis also spent three years covering national politics for The New Republic and five years as a national reporter for The Washington Post, where he was part of the team whose coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. Follow him on Twitter: @AlecMacGillis.
ALL POSTS BY Alec MacGillis
How oil industry lobbyists played the long game — wearing down an overmatched federal bureaucracy to gain access to a fuel-rich corner of the Alaskan wilderness.