Ron Elving
Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News, where he is frequently heard as a news analyst and writes regularly for NPR.org.
He is also a professorial lecturer and Executive in Residence in the School of Public Affairs at American University, where he has also taught in the School of Communication. In 2016, he was honored with the University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in an Adjunct Appointment. He has also taught at George Mason and Georgetown.
He was previously the political editor for USA Today and for Congressional Quarterly. He has been published by the Brookings Institution and the American Political Science Association. He has contributed chapters on Obama and the media and on the media role in Congress to the academic studies Obama in Office 2011, and Rivals for Power, 2013. Ron's earlier book, Conflict and Compromise: How Congress Makes the Law, was published by Simon & Schuster and is also a Touchstone paperback.
During his tenure as manager of NPR's Washington desk from 1999 to 2014, the desk's reporters were awarded every major recognition available in radio journalism, including the Dirksen Award for Congressional Reporting and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In 2008, the American Political Science Association awarded NPR the Carey McWilliams Award "in recognition of a major contribution to the understanding of political science."
Ron came to Washington in 1984 as a Congressional Fellow with the American Political Science Association and worked for two years as a staff member in the House and Senate. Previously, he had been state capital bureau chief for The Milwaukee Journal.
He received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of California – Berkeley.
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Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994. The five who preceded him all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration. -
We discuss today's upcoming vote on the multiple aid packages before Congress today as well as the jury selection in the hush money trial of former president Donald Trump.
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We look at the dustup over the vote to renew FISA, how former President Donald Trump is responding to new abortion laws, and President Biden's latest plan for additional student loan forgiveness.
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It is not much of an exaggeration, if it is one at all, that college towns are to the Democrats today what factory towns were through most of the 20th century. -
We look at the Biden administration's response to Israel killing seven aid workers in Gaza this week, as President Biden comes under increasing pressure from his party to change his policy on Israel.
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The Republican majority in the House narrows, making it harder for the party to accomplish the agenda and more likely to compromise with Democrats. Also, remembering the late Sen. Joe Lieberman.
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A second package of budget bills passed Congress, just narrowly averting a partial government shutdown. Also, Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Israel.
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Ohio was the model bellwether state until 2020. In that year, Ohio gave a solid majority of its vote to then-incumbent President Donald Trump, but he still lost the White House to Joe Biden. -
President Biden made the traditionally solemn State of the Union address into a lively — and very partisan — event. Plus, Donald Trump's takeover of the Republican National Committee.
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History shows that when the major party nominees for president have not cleared the field of notable challengers before summer, they tend to lose in the fall.
