After graduating from Wesleyan, Halper worked as development director for the
Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), a
nonprofit media education center and documentary production house. She also coordinated living wage and labor campaigns in New York City and
Florida. Halper has also taught history at her
alma mater, the
Dalton School.
Comedy at
Netroots Nation 2011 Halper began her career performing as a stand-up comedian. She has performed comedy at venues including
Symphony Space, The Culture Project in New York, the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the D.C. Comedy Festival, and at
Netroots Nation. She also performed on the annual Seminar Cruise of
The Nation magazine. She has performed with
Lizz Winstead,
Markos Moulitsas,
The Yes Men,
Cynthia Nixon, and
Jim Hightower. both of which promote political action through social interaction.
Film Halper was outreach director for
Avi Lewis and
Naomi Klein's documentary
The Take (2004). She also co-directed
Facing Fascism: New Yorkers Remember the Spanish Civil War, a video for an exhibit at the
Museum of the City of New York.
Commentary Articles by Halper have been published in
The New York Times,
Comedy Central,
The Nation,
Gawker,
The Huffington Post,
Alternet,
Daily Kos,
OpenLeft,
The Raw Story,
Jacobin,
Salon,
Vice,
The Guardian, and
Feministing, where she was a guest columnist. She has been featured as a commentator on
MSNBC,
The Young Turks,
RT,
Fox News Channel's
The Ingraham Angle,
The Hills
Rising,
The New York Times,
New York Magazine,
Los Angeles Times,
In These Times,
Jezebel,
Gawker, MSNBC's
Countdown with Keith Olbermann,
The Sam Seder Show,
The Marc Maron Show,
Sirius Radio,
WBAI,
XM Radio's
P.O.T.U.S., and
The Alan Colmes Show.
Podcasting Halper was co-host of the podcast and YouTube program
Morning Jew with Heather Gold. She hosts
The Katie Halper Show, a weekly
WBAI radio show and podcast. The show received attention when, during an interview with Halper that was released as a podcast on March 25, 2020, Tara Reade, a former Senate staff assistant of
Joe Biden, alleged that
Biden sexually assaulted her in a
Capitol Hill office building in 1993. A Biden spokesperson said that the allegation was false. In 2019, Halper and
Matt Taibbi launched and have since co-hosted the podcast
Useful Idiots, which was distributed by
Rolling Stone. The podcast has since featured interviews with
Tulsi Gabbard,
Ro Khanna,
Andrew Yang,
Bernie Sanders,
Michael Moore,
Tim Robbins,
Glenn Greenwald,
Norman Finkelstein,
Aaron Maté,
Dennis Kucinich,
Noam Chomsky,
Adam McKay,
Lowkey,
Rashida Tlaib, and
Roger Waters. In March 2021, Taibbi announced that
Useful Idiots would no longer be released by
Rolling Stone and would instead be moving to
Substack. In January 2022, Taibbi announced a sabbatical leave to write a book, and that in his absence Aaron Maté would fill in for him. ==Filmography==