Miles Parks
Miles Parks is a reporter on NPR's Washington Desk. He covers voting and elections, and also reports on breaking news.
Parks joined NPR as the 2014-15 Stone & Holt Weeks Fellow. Since then, he's investigated FEMA's efforts to get money back from Superstorm Sandy victims, profiled budding rock stars and produced for all three of NPR's weekday news magazines.
A graduate of the University of Tampa, Parks also previously covered crime and local government for The Washington Post and The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla.
In his spare time, Parks likes playing, reading and thinking about basketball. He wrote The Washington Post's obituary of legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summitt.
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Much of the focus of the ongoing redistricting war has been on which political party will come out on top. But it's voters who will pay a cost, say voting experts and voting rights advocates. -
In 23 states, including five presidential swing states, candidates who have denied election results are running for offices that have a direct role in certifying future elections, a new report finds. -
The court, in a 6-3 decision along partisan lines, ruled that Louisiana's 2024 election map, which created a second majority-Black congressional district, was "an unconstitutional racial gerrymander." -
The new homeland security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, has for years amplified President Trump's false claims of a stolen 2020 election. Here's why that history matters this midterm year.
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All the President's Men hit theaters in April 1976. Fifty years on, is Hollywood still making movies that explore the abuse of presidential power?
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Republicans in the Senate are set to take up a voting overhaul known as the SAVE America Act, a key priority for President Trump.
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Nearly half of Americans support the National Guard monitoring November's elections, potentially signaling an openness to the sort of nationalizing of elections that President Trump says he wants. -
Allies of President Trump have floated the idea of him invoking emergency powers to make changes to voting rules. They've also floated sending federal agents to police the polls.
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In a call with top state voting officials, a Department of Homeland Security official stated unequivocally that immigration agents would not be patrolling polling places during this year's midterms. -
President Trump's statements that the GOP should nationalize elections was accompanied by false claims about election integrity. Trump's efforts to change voting rules have mostly been blocked so far.
