Domenico Montanaro
Domenico Montanaro is NPR's senior political editor/correspondent. Based in Washington, D.C., his work appears on air and online delivering analysis of the political climate in Washington and campaigns. He also helps edit political coverage.
Montanaro joined NPR in 2015 and oversaw coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign, including for broadcast and digital.
Before joining NPR, Montanaro served as political director and senior producer for politics and law at PBS NewsHour. There, he led domestic political and legal coverage, which included the 2014 midterm elections, the Supreme Court, and the unrest in Ferguson, Mo.
Prior to PBS NewsHour, Montanaro was deputy political editor at NBC News, where he covered two presidential elections and reported and edited for the network's political blog, "First Read." He has also worked at CBS News, ABC News, The Asbury Park Press in New Jersey, and taught high school English.
Montanaro earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Delaware and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
A native of Queens, N.Y., Montanaro is a life-long Mets fan and college basketball junkie.
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The usual deflection tactics — releasing unrelated information, blaming Democrats and the media — haven't worked with this controversy. -
If it feels like there is an influx of political ads right now, it's because there are. We look at why the ads are everywhere and who is paying for them.
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Democrats feel that Trump's tax and spending bill gives them an opening ahead of the 2026 midterms. But if they want to win back the House, they're going to have to get their own house in order first. -
Ahead of the July 4 holiday, a new poll from NPR/PBS News/Marist sheds light on how people are feeling about the state of democracy, the political parties and the job President Trump is doing.
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76% of Americans think that democracy is under a serious threat, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And their faith in political leadership in the White House and Congress is low. -
In 2024, 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out, the second highest in 120 years. New data show that even if all those voters who stayed home had voted, Trump would still be president today. -
President Trump ran on a pledge to end "forever wars," so what comes next is pivotal. Here are five things to watch. -
We look at the political fallout from the conflict between Israel and Iran, and discuss what's next in the lawsuit over President Trump's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles.
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President Trump's approach to deportations is giving Democrats a unifying message in opposition to him. But the Democratic Party still lacks a common vision for what it would do differently. -
Protests around the country continue and the Trump administration forges ahead with its aggressive immigration enforcement. Here's where public opinion stands on immigration.
