[4] His third book, The Brink: President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983, was published by Simon & Schuster in July 2018.
Though presidential politics and Washington have been his primary areas of interest, he also writes about intelligence and national security, and has broken several stories, including details about the raid on Osama bin Laden.
[10] He has been a consulting producer and on-air expert for documentaries about special operations forces, the Secret Service and government doomsday plans.
[12][13] Gawker based its report on a fragment of an email chain they obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Ambinder later said he regretted how such incidents, even when misinterpreted, contributed to the fraying of trust between political journalists and the public, and decried the proliferation of transactional reporting in Washington.