Spencer Ackerman is a national security reporter and blogger. As national security editor for Guardian US, he was part of team that won the 2014 Pulitzer prize for public service journalism. His book, “Reign of Terror: How The War on Terror Destabilized America and Produced Trump,” won a 2022 American Book Award. His work has appeared in The New Republic, TPM, the defunct Washington Independent, Wired, and the Daily Beast. He writes a twice weekly newsletter, Forever Wars.