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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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Remembering Howard Zinn

By Marc Ambinder

Jan 28 2010, 10:01 AM ET Comment

Lost in the din of State of the Union coverage yesterday was news from Boston about the death of a famous American historian, Howard Zinn. He was a man of the left. My own encounter with him was telling: at an MSNBC taping 11 years ago at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a Kennedy school student noticed Zinn had been given a reserved seat up front. The student, not knowing who Zinn was, complained to him: "Why do you get to sit there and we students have to sit up there?" Without pausing, Zinn replied: "In life, I've learned, there are the haves ... and the have-nots."  Here's a link to one of the final interviews Zinn participated in, courtesy of the online think tank, Big Think.

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