Alexandra Swe Wagner is an American journalist and television host born in Washington, D.C. in 1977. She has held prominent positions across major news organizations, including roles at CBS News and The Atlantic magazine, where she has served as a contributing editor and senior editor since April 2016. Wagner has hosted several television programs throughout her career. She anchored the daytime program Now with Alex Wagner from 2011 to 2015 on MSNBC, and later hosted Alex Wagner Tonight on the same network from 2022 to 2025. She also served as a TV co-anchor on CBS This Morning Saturday from November 2016 to March 2018, and was a co-host of The Circus on Showtime. In 2022, she hosted the first season of Netflix's reboot of The Mole. Beyond her television work, Wagner is an author. She published FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging in 2018, a memoir that explores themes of family and identity. She currently works as a senior political analyst.