Tamara Keith
Tamara Keith has been a White House correspondent for NPR since 2014 and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast, the top political news podcast in America. Keith has chronicled the Trump administration from day one, putting this unorthodox presidency in context for NPR listeners, from early morning tweets to executive orders and investigations. She covered the final two years of the Obama presidency, and during the 2016 presidential campaign she was assigned to cover Hillary Clinton. In 2018, Keith was elected to serve on the board of the White House Correspondents' Association.
Previously Keith covered congress for NPR with an emphasis on House Republicans, the budget, taxes, and the fiscal fights that dominated at the time.
Keith joined NPR in 2009 as a Business Reporter. In that role, she reported on topics spanning the business world, from covering the debt downgrade and debt ceiling crisis to the latest in policy debates, legal issues, and technology trends. In early 2010, she was on the ground in Haiti covering the aftermath of the country's disastrous earthquake, and later she covered the oil spill in the Gulf. In 2011, Keith conceived of and solely reported "The Road Back To Work," a year-long series featuring the audio diaries of six people in St. Louis who began the year unemployed and searching for work.
Keith has deep roots in public radio and got her start in news by writing and voicing essays for NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday as a teenager. While in college, she launched her career at NPR Member station KQED's California Report, where she covered agriculture, the environment, economic issues, and state politics. She covered the 2004 presidential election for NPR Member station WOSU in Columbus, Ohio, and opened the state capital bureau for NPR Member station KPCC/Southern California Public Radio to cover then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
In 2001, Keith began working on B-Side Radio, an hour-long public radio show and podcast that she co-founded, produced, hosted, edited, and distributed for nine years.
Keith earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree at the UCB Graduate School of Journalism. Keith is part of the Politics Monday team on the PBS NewsHour, a weekly segment rounding up the latest political news. Keith is also a member of the Bad News Babes, a media softball team that once a year competes against female members of Congress in the Congressional Women's Softball game.
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President Biden is in Brussels for the NATO summit. The 30 member nations will meet to set the tone for the alliance. This after Biden renewed the U.S. commitment to the G-7.
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Vice President Harris has wrapped up her first foreign trip as she works to address the root causes of migration from Central America — a difficult issue with high political stakes.
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The vice president met with Guatemala's president to talk about the root causes behind migration to the United States, including corruption. But another prominent Democrat called that "disappointing." -
The vice president will meet with the leaders of Guatemala and Mexico to talk about corruption, violence and poverty — factors causing thousands of Central Americans to seek asylum at the U.S. border.
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Harris has the tough job of tackling deep-rooted problems driving tens of thousands of people in Central America to try to migrate to America. Her first foreign trip as vice president starts Sunday.
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The White House laid out a plan for sharing the nation's vaccine surplus with parts of the world struggling to get shots in arms.
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Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday became the first woman to deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy. She addressed cyber security threats against the U.S.
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Vice President Harris met with a dozen companies and NGOs that have agreed to invest in the Northern Triangle countries. It's part of an effort to address the root causes of migration to the U.S.
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President Biden has asked for a 90-day investigation into how the COVID-19 pandemic started, and whether it's possible that the virus leaked, either accidentally or on purpose, from a lab in China.
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New guidance that fully vaccinated people don't have to wear masks made a visible change at the White House this week.
