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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News"Deepfakes" have received a lot of attention as a way to potentially spread misleading or false information and influence public opinion. But two specialists say that might not be a huge concern. -
NewsTexas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe assured the Senate Intelligence Committee that, if confirmed, he would not apply a partisan filter to reporting or shade conclusions to please the president. -
President Trump and his top advisers had high hopes for a surge in deployments targeting South American contraband. They've been productive but not a panacea. -
NewsThe iconic vessel was intended to provide overflow capacity to the New York metropolitan area but ultimately wasn't needed as badly as first feared. -
NewsPresident Trump and a pageant of guests attempted on Monday to sell the idea that victory — when it comes to scaled-up testing — is just around the corner. -
NewsThe White House released a blueprint for states on coronavirus testing on Monday at a daily news conference it spiked and then revived. -
NewsThe White House's pandemic task force spoke Thursday following more reports about record unemployment connected with the disaster.
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NewsThe administration and the states continue to grapple with how to move forward following the disaster. -
NewsPresident Trump has said he believes many states could begin to re-open even before the federal guidelines for social distancing and mitigation expire on May 1. -
NewsTrump teased that some states might be able to re-open in some form or change their practices before May 1. But he said federal guidelines on social distancing would stay in effect until then.
