Peter Baker

Peter Baker is the Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times reporting about President Trump and his administration and a political analyst for MSNBC. He is covering his sixth presidency for The Times and The Washington Post.

In between stints at the White House, Baker spent four years as Moscow Co-Bureau Chief for The Post along with his wife, Susan B. Glasser, chronicling the rise of Vladimir Putin and the rollback of Russian democracy. During 20 years at The Post, Baker also reported from Afghanistan and Iraq during the opening stages of the U.S. wars there. He served briefly as Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The Times, where he has worked for the past 17 years.

Baker is the author or co-author of seven books, most recently The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, and The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III, both with Glasser and both New York Times bestsellers. His book, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, was named one of the five Best Nonfiction Books of the year by The New York Times Book Review. He has won all three major awards focused on White House coverage.

Baker attended Oberlin College and got his start in journalism at The Washington Times. He and Glasser live in Washington.

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