Marc Ambinder

Editor-at-large

Marc Ambinder is TheWeek.com's editor-at-large. He is the author, with D.B. Grady, of The Command and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. Marc is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic and GQ. Formerly, he served as White House correspondent for National Journal, chief political consultant for CBS News, and politics editor at The Atlantic. Marc is a 2001 graduate of Harvard. He is married to Michael Park, a corporate strategy consultant, and lives in Los Angeles.

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Marc Ambinder

The cyber debate goes public

Trump shows the document he signed with Kim

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Analysis

Here's what would need to happen to verify North Korea's denuclearization

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Analysis

The NSA knew about cellphone surveillance around the White House 6 years ago

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Analysis

The transformation of Kim Jong Un

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Analysis

The DOJ seized a New York Times' reporter's phone and email records. Here's why it matters.

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Analysis

Trump's post-presidency will break all the rules

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Analysis

The power of Mueller's facts

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Analysis

How Trump has already transformed America's relationship with North Korea

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Analysis

Why Trump dumped Tillerson

Side by side photos of President Trump and Kim Jong Un on a television

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Analysis

6 looming questions surrounding Trump's stunning decision to meet with Kim Jong Un

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Analysis

The underwhelming revelations of the Nunes memo

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Analysis

The GOP's national security cynicism

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Opinion

How Trump spectacularly misread the politics of his transgender ban

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Analysis

How Donald Trump royally botched James Comey's firing

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Analysis

The misery of Donald Trump

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Analysis

President Trump just suffered a massive loss in court. Here's what it means.

Donald Trump has the ability to make unprecedented compromises.

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Analysis

Donald Trump's collision course with Republicans

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Analysis

Don't blame the pollsters

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Opinion

How the media totally missed the white wave that made Donald Trump president

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Analysis

How Donald Trump pulled off the unthinkable

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Analysis

Breaking news: The presidential race is stable

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Opinion

The FBI wasn't 'irresponsible' for reigniting Clinton's email scandal. It was doing its job.

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Opinion

How the media rediscovered its convictions to take on Donald Trump

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Opinion

Donald Trump is right that America's elections are rigged. He's just wrong about the details.

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Analysis

How the NSA got hacked

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Analysis

Where does Hillary Clinton go from here?

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Opinion

Donald Trump is right. Bernie Sanders sold out. But here's what he got.

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Opinion

Making sense of Trump, Putin, and the DNC email hack

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Analysis

The political genius of Donald Trump's big speech

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Opinion

An unconventional disaster for Donald Trump

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Opinion

Melania Trump's unforgivable sin

Donald Trump is reminiscent of a certain Fight Club character.

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Opinion

Donald Trump is the Fight Club candidate

A police officer covers his face while standing outside the emergency room after the Dallas attacks.

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Opinion

How the Dallas shooting was despicably spun into a race war

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Opinion

How Bernie Sanders should try to flip Hillary Clinton's superdelegates

Gary Johnson leads the Libertarians this election.

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Opinion

The Libertarian Party has a cognitive dissonance problem

This election is brings back memories from 1968.

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Opinion

Donald Trump's rise and the echoes of 1968