Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MSNBC analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1 and father of @tab_delete. Paperback of "THE DIVIDER" now out.
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Tonight the rest of the country got to see why we love Kelly O'Donnell. She's the best of the best and exemplifies what the White House press corps is all about. A president with universal approval ratings.
Congratulations to Theo Baker who wins two SPJ awards for excellence, one for General News and another for Investigative Reporting (also named a finalist for Breaking News). spj.org/news.asp?ref=3…
'This is how fascists campaign': No major American presidential candidate has talked like this — not Richard Nixon, not George Wallace, not even Trump himself, writes Charles Homans after attending seven Trump rallies. nytimes.com/2024/04/27/mag…
Gone are the days of obliquely referring to Trump as 'my predecessor.' Biden has begun directly going after his opponent with needling insults designed to hit him where it hurts, from his energy levels to his hair. Katie Rogers nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/…
US intelligence has concluded Putin likely didn't order Navalny killed at the time he died. Navalny allies and some European security officials are not convinced. Aruna Viswanatha Dustin Volz Warren Strobel Alan Cullison Thomas Grove wsj.com/world/russia/a…
Peter Baker, Laura Barrón-López, David M. Drucker, and Mara Liasson join @jeffreygoldberg to discuss protests against the war in Gaza, the potential political fallout of Congress’s foreign-aid bill, and more.
Tune in to Washington Week with The Atlantic | PBS at 8/7c on PBS: theatln.tc/McT6kRKc
TONIGHT: Peter Baker, Laura Barrón-López, David M. Drucker and Mara Liasson join Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss the $95 billion military aid package President Biden signed into law this week and the pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses across the U.S.
Watch at 8/7c on PBS!
She is the first Ukrainian-born member of Congress. And she just voted against aid to Ukraine. 'How did this happen?' asks a resident of her hometown. 'She's with Trump,' another says Siobhan O'Grady Anastacia Galouchka Marianna Sotomayor washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/…
The Fed's most closely watched inflation measure remained stubborn in March, the latest evidence that price hikes are not fading as quickly as policymakers hoped, which may keep interest rates high for longer. Jeanna Smialek Ben Casselman nytimes.com/2024/04/26/bus…
King Donald’s day at the Supreme Court—a political hit? A military coup? Trump’s lawyer said he could do them all without prosecution— and wasn’t laughed out of the room.
My The New Yorker column: newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…
As I told the gracious people at UT Austin School of Journalism and Media, it means the world to have people I respect support my reporting.
This Rather quote says it all: “Do a good job and report the truth, and you're probably going to catch hell. The challenge is being willing to do it anyway.”
Fyi, from the The New York Times: 'If the president chooses not to sit down with The Times because he dislikes our independent coverage, that is his right, and we will continue to cover him fully and fairly either way.'