Steve Inskeep
Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.
Known for interviews with presidents and Congressional leaders, Inskeep has a passion for stories of the less famous: Pennsylvania truck drivers, Kentucky coal miners, U.S.-Mexico border detainees, Yemeni refugees, California firefighters, American soldiers.
Since joining Morning Edition in 2004, Inskeep has hosted the program from New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, Cairo, and Beijing; investigated Iraqi police in Baghdad; and received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for "The Price of African Oil," on conflict in Nigeria. He has taken listeners on a 2,428-mile journey along the U.S.-Mexico border, and 2,700 miles across North Africa. He is a repeat visitor to Iran and has covered wars in Syria and Yemen.
Inskeep says Morning Edition works to "slow down the news," making sense of fast-moving events. A prime example came during the 2008 Presidential campaign, when Inskeep and NPR's Michele Norris conducted "The York Project," groundbreaking conversations about race, which received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for excellence.
Inskeep was hired by NPR in 1996. His first full-time assignment was the 1996 presidential primary in New Hampshire. He went on to cover the Pentagon, the Senate, and the 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush. After the Sept. 11 attacks, he covered the war in Afghanistan, turmoil in Pakistan, and the war in Iraq. In 2003, he received a National Headliner Award for investigating a military raid gone wrong in Afghanistan. He has twice been part of NPR News teams awarded the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for coverage of Iraq.
On days of bad news, Inskeep is inspired by the Langston Hughes book, Laughing to Keep From Crying. Of hosting Morning Edition during the 2008 financial crisis and Great Recession, he told Nuvo magazine when "the whole world seemed to be falling apart, it was especially important for me ... to be amused, even if I had to be cynically amused, about the things that were going wrong. Laughter is a sign that you're not defeated."
Inskeep is the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi, a 2011 book on one of the world's great megacities. He is also author of Jacksonland, a history of President Andrew Jackson's long-running conflict with John Ross, a Cherokee chief who resisted the removal of Indians from the eastern United States in the 1830s.
He has been a guest on numerous TV programs including ABC's This Week, NBC's Meet the Press, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, CNN's Inside Politics and the PBS Newshour. He has written for publications including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.
A native of Carmel, Indiana, Inskeep is a graduate of Morehead State University in Kentucky.
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Regardless of who wins the presidential election, they require a Congress to advance their agenda. How are candidates for the House and Senate making their final pitches to voters?
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It’s the last leg of the presidential campaign and candidates are racing across swing states. Striking Boeing machinists vote on the company's latest proposal to end the seven-week strike.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center, about how the future president could employ unitary theory, which gives the executive branch nearly unbridled power.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to pollster Frank Luntz and researcher Richard Reeves of the American Institute for Boys and Men, about the gender gap between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris supporters.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Tom Nichols, a staff writer at The Atlantic, about why some Americans have grown increasingly hostile to expertise, and what it means in this election.
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North Gaza's fate is at stake in Israel's offensive. Law enforcement agencies gear up for election violence and result challenges. How much power does a president have to change abortion access?
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Vice President Harris gave her closing argument from the spot, the ellipse in front of the White House, that her GOP opponent spoke from on Jan. 6, 2021.
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VP Harris delivers campaign's closing arguments. If reelected, Donald Trump plans mass deportation of undocumented migrants. Federally funded preschool program struggles to hire and pay staff.
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A comparison of former President Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden speech on Sunday to Vice President Harris' speech at the White House Ellipse Tuesday night.
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Immigration has been a major issue of the presidential campaign. Former President Donald Trump has promised that if elected, he will conduct mass deportations.