Steve Inskeep

Still here, still working for you: with @NPRMichel in NPR Studio 31 at 5:19am.

Trump's approval rating just fell below 40 percent in our tracking for the first time. And his net approval rating is now -17.4, also a new low and down about 5 points over the past several weeks.

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The account of my friend and colleague @nprscottsimon has been hacked. He is not selling crypto. He asks me to post this: “We are working to reverse this hack, and hope that @X will help. We think it’s important to keep people talking to each other. Our account has meant a lot to people, and to us, since 2009. Scott Simon”

Watch Wes Moore, the Democratic governor of Maryland, on the new NPR program Newsmakers. 2/2 youtu.be/rHVZ4HkPdRk?si…

Wes Moore, veteran of the 82nd Airborne, says President Trump failed to take some necessary steps before deploying his old unit to the Middle East. 1/2

NPR has taken its ongoing series of video interviews and made them a program: NPR’s Newsmakers. It’s an all-platform program—on YouTube, podcast, radio and more. Past episodes have ranged from AOC to Steve Bannon to Pete Buttigeig to Spencer Cox. We’re broadening the range to business and cultural leaders too. The premiere of Newsmakers is here, and you will support it just by clicking here and following it: youtu.be/rHVZ4HkPdRk?si…

Here’s the full conversation with Moore at the MD State House. He spoke in an ornate room decorated with portraits of his predecessors. Moore is the state’s first Black governor - also a Rhodes Scholar and combat veteran. youtu.be/rHVZ4HkPdRk?si…

One big question for Democrats in 2026 and 2028 is the story they have to tell. Can they express an idea of America that speaks to Americans’ hopes (or fears)? The question hung in the air as we spoke with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for the NPR program “Newsmakers.”

Moore has said he is not running in 2028, though his personal story—Rhodes scholar, combat veteran, governor—leads many Democrats to look in his direction. Here’s what we learned about him on NPR’s Newsmakers: open.substack.com/pub/steveinske…

In his video interview for NPR’s “Newsmakers,” Maryland’s Wes Moore says Democrats need to start with the understanding that the political system was broken for a lot of people.

We talked with Moore for the first episode of the NPR interview program Newsmakers. Watch him here: youtu.be/rHVZ4HkPdRk?si…

“We are a nation at war,” says Maryland Gov. and 82nd Airborne veteran Wes Moore. But, he says, the president doesn’t act like it. He spoke with me for the NPR program Newsmakers:

You can watch our conversation with Wes Moore here: youtu.be/rHVZ4HkPdRk?si…

Moore spoke on camera in an NPR interview for our new program Newsmakers. He says he’s not running for president, but has thought a lot about the job—and about curbing presidential power he says Trump has abused.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore served in the 82nd Airborne, which now has been ordered to the Middle East. Moore says President Trump failed them—by using force before he had to and failing to rally the country behind the war.

Both the U.S. and Iran seem “pretty confident that they can improve” the terms of a potential ceasefire deal “through military action,” @RichardMNephew told NPR’s @NPRinskeep. Listen to the full interview: npr.org/2026/03/26/nx-…

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Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting “productive” talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling and ignited volatility in other assets. ft.com/content/1171d6…

Four ways Trump can try to end the war—but Iran has a vote.