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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Analysis of the week in politics - it's been dominated by the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on abortion.
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NPR's Miles Parks talks to Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the NBA draft and some big trades in the league.
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In a new novel, best friends navigate adult life amid the 2008 financial crisis in Ireland. NPR's Miles Parks talks with Caroline O'Donoghue about her book, "The Rachel Incident."
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The artist known as NBDY realized music could be a career back in elementary school, when he started singing as he sold candy to his classmates. Now, he talks about his new R&B single "Feels."
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NPR's Miles Parks talks to Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel, about Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces.
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Pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman went on trial this week in California's State Bar Court, where the state bar is seeking to revoke his law license.
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NPR's Miles Parks speaks with Kjartan Sveinsson, keyboardist for the Icelandic band Sigur Ros about their new album.
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Why are Republicans abandoning one of the best tools the government has to catch voter fraud? That question is the focus of a new NPR investigation. Here are five takeaways from the report. -
The Electronic Registration Information Center — a multistate effort to fight voter fraud — was a rare bipartisan success story, until it was targeted by a far-right campaign to dismantle it.
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A right-wing campaign has targeted a once-obscure voting partnership called ERIC. Eight Republican states have now pulled out, giving the election denial movement a big win — and a blueprint for 2024.
