Marc Ambinder (/ˈæmbɪndər/ ; born c. 1978) is an American university professor, journalist, and television producer.[1][2] He is a former politics editor at The Atlantic, a White House Correspondent for National Journal, contributing editor for GQ, and was editor-at-large of The Week[2] and a member of the USA Today national board of contributors.[3] In 2017, he was the journalist-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.[4] His third book, The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983, was published by Simon & Schuster in July 2018. He teaches at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where he leads Annenberg's digital security initiative.[5]