Alex Kingsbury is a contributing writer at The New York Times. He was a member of the editorial board at The New York Times from 2018 to 2024. In 2023, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing. Kingsbury is also a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Prior to his work at The New York Times, Kingsbury served as Deputy Ideas Editor at Boston Globe Media from 2015 to 2018.