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Marc Ambinder

MSNBC Columnist

Marc Ambinder is a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication Leadership and Policy. A former White House correspondent and political reporter, he is the author of several books about national security, including “The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983.” He is a consultant for Spycraft Entertainment and lives in Los Angeles. 

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‘Fake news’ can’t be fixed by more journalism, not when our democracy is broken

Kamala Harris getting mocked for wired ear buds is peak absurdity

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Virginia election postmortem: Democrats can’t fight Republican fear with facts

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America’s new war on terror has gone digital

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AT&T wanted OAN to compete with Fox News. It worked too well.

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Trump was just the latest American president whose sanity the military questioned

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America left the Taliban in Afghanistan with a valuable weapon: data

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Twitter keeps riding the line between moderation and censorship

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What the Trump DOJ subpoenas and an NSA whistle-blower have in common

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Colonial Pipeline hack gas shortage warns of worse future cyberattacks