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 former national security adviser is reviled so equally by so many on all sides in Washington that the allegations in his new memoir may not spark the kind of response they otherwise might. -
The former national security adviser avoided talking to Congress about what he knew when it was convened for impeachment — abetted by Republicans. Now he tells the story in a new book. -
The two parties differ in the basic ways they perceive and frame myriad aspects of practicing democracy, especially when it comes to voting. -
Contradicting Trump, the GOP-led Senate Armed Services Committee greenlights a commission to rename Army installations bearing Confederate names. Lawmakers in the House are taking similar action. -
The former deputy attorney general, who appointed Robert Mueller, testified that he would not have signed the application to continue surveillance on a former Trump aide knowing what he knows now. -
The legislation restores some lapsed investigative authorities and adds what advocates call new safeguards against abuse. But it must go back to the House and thence to President Trump. -
The story is complicated, and the complexity starts with the underlying practice at issue in the Michael Flynn saga: "unmasking." -
Republican senators working with a sympathetic acting director of national intelligence have tied the likely Democratic presidential nominee into a years-long saga over the Russia imbroglio. -
Judge Emmet Sullivan asked others to opine about what he should do in the case of the former national security adviser, whom the Justice Department now won't prosecute. -
After months of wrangling following the Russia investigation, prosecutors aren't going ahead with the case based on the former national security adviser's false statements to the FBI.
