Alexandra Swe Wagner (born December 4, 1977) is an American liberal political commentator. She was the anchor of the daytime program Now with Alex Wagner (2011-2015) on MSNBC. Currently, she is a TV co-anchor on CBS This Morning Saturday (since Nov. 2016) and a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine (from April 2016).
Alex Wagner was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Her mother, Tin Swe Thant, is an immigrant from Rangoon, Myanmar (Burma), who became a naturalized American after marrying Alex's father. Her father, Carl Wagner, is from Iowa (U.S.), and of German and Irish descent, and is a prominent Democratic Party political consultant who co-chaired Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. She attended Woodrow Wilson High School and graduated from Brown University in 1999, having studied art history and literature. Wagner was raised Catholic.
Wagner has worked as the cultural correspondent for the Center for American Progress. From 2003 to 2007, she was editor-in-chief of The Fader magazine, covering music and cultural movements from around the world. She also served as executive director of Not On Our Watch Project, an advocacy organization focused on mass atrocities and human rights violations.