Molly Ball is a journalist who covers national politics. Currently, she is National Political Correspondent for TIME and an analyst for CNN. Previously, Ball was a staff writer for The Atlantic, and before that she worked for the Atlantic, Politico, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Las Vegas Sun, and the Cambodia Daily. Ball was raised in Idaho and Colorado. She received her degree from Yale University, and she was a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 2009, where she studied economic policy.