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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Iowa's Democratic Party plans to use a smartphone app in its upcoming caucuses. Despite warnings about cybersecurity since 2016, party bosses are sanguine.
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The Iowa Democratic Party confirmed to Iowa Public Radio and NPR that it plans to use an Internet-based app to transmit results, but it declined to provide any more specifics or security details. -
North Korea has threatened to send a "Christmas present" for the United States if sanctions aren't eased by the end of the year. Trump says he isn't worried about it. -
Democrats say heavily redacted emails published by the Center for Public Integrity show there is more to uncover about military aid that was withheld from Ukraine. -
The bipartisan agreement was completed on Monday. Critics say the money is better than nothing but that more structure — and more consistency — are needed. -
Gov. Matt Bevin is demanding a recanvassing and alleging fraud after he came up about 5,000 votes short in the Nov. 5 Kentucky gubernatorial election.
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Elections specialists worry that politicians' scurrilous claims about voter fraud — when it seldom has a decisive effect on outcomes — erode confidence in democracy. -
Despite unanswered questions about security and transparency, mobile voting pilots aimed at overseas and military voters move forward in a number of states. -
We bank, apply for mortgages, order dinner and even look for dates on our phones. Why don't we also vote in elections on them, too?
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In written testimony to Congress, Taylor said he "became increasingly concerned" about informal policymaking, driven by Rudy Giuliani, that diverged from official U.S. policy on Ukraine.
