Tim Mak
Tim Mak is NPR's Washington Investigative Correspondent, focused on political enterprise journalism.
His reporting interests include the 2020 election campaign, national security and the role of technology in disinformation efforts.
He appears regularly on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and the NPR Politics Podcast.
Mak was one of NPR's lead reporters on the Mueller investigation and the Trump impeachment process. Before joining NPR, Mak worked as a senior correspondent at The Daily Beast, covering the 2016 presidential elections with an emphasis on national security. He has also worked on the Politico Defense team, the Politico breaking news desk and at the Washington Examiner. He has reported abroad from the Horn of Africa and East Asia.
Mak graduated with a B.A. from McGill University, where he was a valedictorian. He also currently holds a national certification as an Emergency Medical Technician.
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Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., holds the deciding vote on a narrowly divided Senate Judiciary Committee. There are currently 21 judicial nominees awaiting a vote by the committee. -
Arizona GOP Sen. Jeff Flake provided the critical vote to move the nomination out of committee while proposing the limited investigation. The Senate held a procedural vote on the nomination Friday. -
The company says a network of accounts, pages and groups "originated in Iran and targeted people across multiple internet services in the Middle East, Latin America, UK and US." -
The activity on Facebook and Instagram included organizing counterprotests for a white nationalist rally in Washington. There's evidence of links to previous Russian disinformation efforts. -
Russian influence-mongers appear to have created a number of fake local news Twitter accounts — and spent years posting real headlines. -
Michael Cohen is facing legal peril. But he's usually the one using legal pressure to fix issues for Donald Trump before they become problems. NPR has audio of Cohen making threats in 2015. -
In declaring he wouldn't play ball, the former campaign aide had cited what he called the "bankruptcies" the special counsel has caused for other people involved with his investigation. -
Alexander Torshin's links to NRA leaders are deeper than previously known, NPR has learned. He claims to have met Donald Trump in 2015 and served as a U.S. election observer in 2012 through the NRA. -
There were Facebook groups and events inciting both left and right; fake identities to pay real people involved with rallies; and stolen U.S. identities used to facilitate payments for digital ads. -
Glenn Simpson testified before the committee in August and recently called for a transcript to be made public. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., posted the material on Tuesday.
