Ayesha Rascoe
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
Prior to joining NPR, Rascoe covered the White House for Reuters, chronicling Obama's final year in office and the beginning days of the Trump administration. Rascoe began her reporting career at Reuters, covering energy and environmental policy news, such as the 2010 BP oil spill and the U.S. response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011. She also spent a year covering energy legal issues and court cases.
She graduated from Howard University in 2007 with a B.A. in journalism.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to culture writer Adrienne Matei about a new model of masculinity that's emerging on TV among America's cartoon dads.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with director Lee Overtree and voice actor Eric Bauza about their holiday podcast for kids, "Bugs and Daffy's Thanksgiving Adventure."
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October is the right time for the spooky, from haunted houses to horror movies. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with fear researcher Coltan Scrivner about what makes scary things so appealing.
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A study finds that we are happier the more we talk with different categories of people — colleagues, family, strangers — and the more evenly our conversations are spread out among those groups. -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to hair stylist April Kayganich about what it takes to transition from relaxed to natural hair.
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Jenny Kiefer is the owner of Butcher Cabin Books in Louisville, Ky. The new bookstore specializes in horror novels.
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A new study says a mix of weak and strong social ties, known as relational diversity, leads to greater life satisfaction. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Hanne Collins, an author of the study.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Mike Sykes II, author of The Kicks You Wear newsletter, about what Nike's crackdown on sneaker resellers and bots could mean for fans hoping to buy shoes at retail.
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Reports of the death of the thumbs-up emoji have been greatly exaggerated. Or maybe not. In any case, let's consider how emojis, like words, can be interpreted in many different ways.
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In a twist, one case before the U.S. Supreme Court this term involves Andy Warhol and 1981 photo of the musician Prince.
