Danielle Kurtzleben
Danielle Kurtzleben is a White House correspondent on NPR's Washington Desk. She appears regularly on the NPR Politics Podcast and other NPR shows.
In her time at NPR, she has covered three presidential elections, from the 2016 Republican primary that Donald Trump went on to win, to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. Kurtzleben traveled to dozens of Trump rallies and reported live on the ground from the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where a would-be assassin shot at Trump. For that reporting, Kurtzleben was part of the team that won an Edgar R. Murrow Award for breaking news radio coverage.
As a White House correspondent, she specializes in covering Trump's economic policies, as well as his administration's political rhetoric.
Kurtzleben covered elections nationwide prior to covering the White House, traveling all over the country to understand the forces that determine how people vote.
She also covered the intersection of gender and politics for much of her time at NPR. Most notably, she carved out a unique niche in observing how politicians use masculinity to try to win elections, particularly the presidency. In addition, she has covered Women's Marches, the 2018 midterms that elected a wave of Democratic women, the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and the backlash to that decision.
Before joining NPR in 2015, Kurtzleben was a correspondent for Vox.com. As part of the site's original reporting team, she covered economics and business news.
Kurtzleben was with U.S. News & World Report for nearly four years prior to Vox.com, 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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NASA's Swift Observatory has orbited the Earth since 2004. It's now falling towards earth, and after a failed mission to save it, NASA is leaving the doomed telescope to its fate.
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NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Jørgen Hollesen, a Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Denmark, about how climate change is impacting the study of archaeology.
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In a recent article for Foregin Affairs, Mark Leonard makes that argument that America's leading role in the world order is fading. He discusses his argument with NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben.
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Stanislav Zavertailo is co-owner of a popular Kyiv-based cafe. He tells NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben what it's like to live through airstrikes and keep a cafe operating amid a war.
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NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Lara Korte, former reporter for Stars and Stripes, following her controversial firing from the publication, along with its publisher and editor-in-chief.
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For Reporter's Notebook, an NPR political correspondent shares the lessons she has learned listening in on groups of swing voters in swing states.
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Western states have long disputed how to split the Colorado River's water. JB Hamby, California's top negotiator, weighs in on the new federal proposal to manage the resource.
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NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben speaks with Mike Roach and Kim Osgood, owners of Paloma Clothing in Portland, Ore., about how the tariff fight between the U.S. and Canada is affecting their business.
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The news comes as two key Republicans are withholding their support over concerns about the Justice Department's deal with President Trump. -
The Trump administration has employed a number of new paths for its tariff regime after the Supreme Court invalidated earlier tariffs.
