Ashley Rebecca Parker (born c. 1983) is an American journalist, senior national political correspondent for The Washington Post, and senior political analyst for MS NOW. From 2011 to 2017 she was a Washington-based politics reporter for The New York Times. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, announced that she would become a staff writer in mid-January 2025. == Personal life == Parker was born and raised in Bethesda, Maryland, by Bruce and Betty Parker. Her father was a former p…