Philip Ewing
Philip Ewing is an election security editor with NPR's Washington Desk. He helps oversee coverage of election security, voting, disinformation, active measures and other issues. Ewing joined the Washington Desk from his previous role as NPR's national security editor, in which he helped direct coverage of the military, intelligence community, counterterrorism, veterans and more. He came to NPR in 2015 from Politico, where he was a Pentagon correspondent and defense editor. Previously, he served as managing editor of Military.com, and before that he covered the U.S. Navy for the Military Times newspapers.
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The biggest day of voting so far in 2020 wasn't faultless, but it also might have gone much worse. Moves and countermoves are afoot to influence Americans and protect the vote. -
The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted for just the third time in American history to impeach a sitting president. Trump's allies in the Senate will very likely preserve him in office. -
Chairman Jerry Nadler unexpectedly called a halt for the night without consulting minority Republicans after hours of procedural combat toward the expected votes. GOP members were outraged. -
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and his colleagues announced on Tuesday they're charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. -
Members of Congress used marathon testimony over two weeks to try to convince Americans that they should impeach and remove President Trump. The U.S. Senate, at least, isn't sold. Now what? -
Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch reveal the hows and whys of the whirlwind they uncorked by commissioning Christopher Steele to investigate Donald Trump's activities in Russia.
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President Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to see what he could find out about former Vice President Joe Biden and his family and to be in touch with Trump's lawyer and the attorney general. -
In a fight to frame the political conflict, President Trump alleges former Vice President Joe Biden and his son are "corrupt." Opponents point to the president's own phone call. -
The House of Representatives voted on a measure that would empower the leaders of its committees to sue to get information for their Trump investigations. -
Mueller, a decorated veteran and long-serving prosecutor, returned to public life to lead the most-watched — and yet lowest-profile — Washington investigation in a generation.
