Spencer Ackerman's 25-year work as a national-security reporter for outlets like Wired, The Guardian and The Daily Beast has earned him a Pultizer Prize (shared), a National Magazine Award, an Investigative Reporters & Editors Medal, and other accolades. His book Reign of Terror: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump won a 2022 American Book Award and was named a book of the year by the New York Times critics, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy and the PBS NewsHour. Ackerman lives in his native Brooklyn with his family and publishes the newsletter Forever Wars.