Jonathan Allen is an award-winning political journalist and New York Times bestselling author. He is the head of community and content at Sidewire, a columnist for Roll Call, and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University. He is also the host of the DC/BS podcast and can be booked for speaking engagements through the Bright Sight Group.

Jonathan was formerly the Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News and the White House bureau chief for Politico. He is a winner of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for reporting on Congress and the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for excellence in political journalism.

A frequent guest analyst on national television and radio news programs, Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Maryland and lives on Capitol Hill with his wife and two children. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign is his second book with Amie Parnes. Their first, HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list.

Jonathan grew up in Silver Spring and Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated from Walter Johnson High School. Before graduating from the University of Maryland, he played baseball at St. Mary's College in Southern Maryland.