Danielle Kurtzleben
Danielle Kurtzleben is a political correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk. She appears on NPR shows, writes for the web, and is a regular on The NPR Politics Podcast. She is covering the 2020 presidential election, with particular focuses on on economic policy and gender politics.
Before joining NPR in 2015, Kurtzleben spent a year as a correspondent for Vox.com. As part of the site's original reporting team, she covered economics and business news.
Prior to Vox.com, Kurtzleben was with U.S. News & World Report for nearly four years, where she covered the economy, campaign finance and demographic issues. As associate editor, she launched Data Mine, a data visualization blog on usnews.com.
A native of Titonka, Iowa, Kurtzleben has a bachelor's degree in English from Carleton College. She also holds a master's degree in global communication from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.
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Former President Donald Trump is the presumptive the Republican nominee. How might his conviction on 34 felony counts affect how voters view him and his chances in the election?
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The video adds to a long line of connections between the former president and antisemitism. The Trump campaign has not yet responded to NPR's request for comment. -
Polls show young male voters who once supported Biden moving to Trump. We ask why that is and what the Democrats can do to turn the trend around.
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Dr. Adam Hamawy is a former U.S. Army combat surgeon currently in Gaza. He said he's treating primarily civilians, rather than combatants: "mostly children, many women, many elderly." -
Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday hit the campaign trial in Michigan and Wisconsin on a day off from his hush money trial in New York. Because of the trial, he has limited time to campaign.
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The former president has a long history of shifting - and at times confusing - stances on abortion rights. -
Former President Donald Trump declined to endorse a nationwide abortion ban and said abortion policy should be left up to the states.
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Some conservative groups want to enforce an 1873 law than bans the mailing of anything related to performing abortions. Their plan could essentially end abortion nationwide.
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Pressure has mounted on Trump to make his own views on abortion public after the Florida Supreme Court allowed the state's six-week ban on abortion to go into effect. -
The group No Labels said Thursday that finding the right candidates proved difficult. The organization emerged earlier this year as a potentially well-funded force in the election.
