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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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The Firewall Is Down! The Firewall Is Down!

By Marc Ambinder

Jan 22 2008, 12:28 PM ET Comment

We're free!

Free as a campaign lunch. Free as a salty joke from Robert Gibbs. Free as a bucket of rain. Free as willy.

150 years of Atlantic archives and the magazine's articles the instant they're published.

My favorites from the current issue:

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Megan McArdle's dispatch from the Silver Age.

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