Alison MacAdam

Oct 30, 2024 | npr.org | Gene Demby |B.A. Parker |Xavier Lopez |Xavier Lopez |Courtney Stein |Alison MacAdam | +4 more

The online communities pushing Black male voters to the rightThe manosphere is a sprawling ecosystem of podcasts, YouTubers, message boards, and more aimed at disgruntled men. Now a subset of the manosphere aimed at Black men is exposing cracks in Black voters' steadfast support of Democrats. On this episode, we take a look at how the Black manosphere came to be and wonder: could this loose community of aggrieved dudes swing the election? This episode was produced by Xavier Lopez and Jess Kung.

Oct 16, 2024 | npr.org | Gene Demby |Colin Jackson |Courtney Stein |Jess Kung |Alison MacAdam |Leah Donnella | +6 more

In Michigan, Arab Americans weigh the power of a voteThis presidential election is likely to be a squeaker, decided by a handful of votes in some key swing states. We visited one of them — Michigan — in order to speak to some of the most influential and misunderstood voters in the country: Arab Americans in Dearborn. The Dearbornites we met said that the war in Gaza is one of the key issues weighing on their minds as they consider how to cast their ballots in a couple of weeks.

Aug 27, 2024 | niemanreports.org | Gaiutra Bahadur |Alison MacAdam |Julian Benbow |Less Arguing

Warped By • Features• August 27, 2024 Reporters pursued the president in a feeding frenzy. White House resistance didn’t deter them from pounding away, day after day, at his credibility. Critics, however, believed the issue to be hyped out of proportion.

Jul 29, 2024 | niemanreports.org | Alison MacAdam

On the morning of April 25, 2022, I woke up to alarming texts from the team I had been working with. Three homes connected to my colleagues at New Hampshire Public Radio had been vandalized. Bricks thrown through windows, “C—” spray-painted in bright red. The vandals hit the homes of NHPR’s news director, reporter Lauren Chooljian’s parents, and a home Lauren used to live in. One month later, the vandals hit again. This time, they found Lauren’s actual home.