Helen Huiskes

Former Reporter & AJI Fellow

Helen covered Congress, campaigns, and western states for NOTUS.

Helen received her bachelor’s degree in English from Wheaton College in Illinois, with a minor in international relations. She spent three years as editor in chief of The Wheaton Record, where she also covered breaking news, faculty cuts and campus debates over race. Helen has interned at the Portland-based alt-weekly Willamette Week and The Chronicle of Higher Education in D.C., and her work has appeared in Christianity Today.

JD Vance Tells Religious Groups That U.S. Foreign Aid Was Supporting Atheism

February 05, 2025 10:03 a.m.
Democrats and Human Rights Activists Are Already Wondering What Happened to Marco Rubio

February 05, 2025 05:00 a.m.
Trump Said He Doesn’t Know What Caused the Crash, but Seemed to Blame DEI

January 30, 2025 11:41 a.m.
Foreign Aid Groups Are Desperately Seeking Answers on Trump’s Funding Pause

January 28, 2025 07:02 p.m.
Senators From Both Parties Want Trump to Explain His Inspectors General Purge

January 27, 2025 09:20 p.m.
The Race for Dick Durbin’s Senate Seat Has Already Begun

January 27, 2025 05:00 a.m.
Just Who Could Be Covered by Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons?

January 24, 2025 08:00 a.m.
Louisiana Republicans Defend the State’s Ten Commandments Law

January 23, 2025 05:00 a.m.
Elise Stefanik Is Already Answering for Trump’s Skepticism of the U.N.

January 21, 2025 04:28 p.m.
Democrats Say Blanket Pardons for Biden’s Family Is Terrible Precedent

January 20, 2025 07:37 p.m.
Democrats Wave Away the Inroads Republicans Made in Blue States

January 17, 2025 05:00 a.m.
Louisiana Wants to Fend Off California’s Insurance Disaster — But It May Create Another Mess

January 16, 2025 11:54 a.m.
Jack Smith’s Final Trump Report Angers Democrats and Republicans — For Very Different Reasons

January 15, 2025 12:40 p.m.
Trump’s Cabinet Picks Will Give Bill Cassidy an Early 2026 Test

January 13, 2025 05:00 a.m.
Trump Suggests He Might Try to Force a Takeover of Greenland and the Panama Canal

January 07, 2025 02:16 p.m.
Jan. 6 Is Just Another Day Now — Except for the Lawmakers Who Refuse to Forget

January 06, 2025 04:33 p.m.