Elaina Plott Calabro is a staff writer at The Atlantic. Previously, she covered politics and the 2020 election for The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine and was a staff writer at Washingtonian. Calabro is the author of the forthcoming book In the Dead Fire’s Ashes (Penguin Press), chronicling the relationship between Alabama Governor George Wallace and Frank Johnson, the federal judge who regularly upended Wallace’s segregationist agenda in the 1960s. Calabro is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.