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1 month ago | 
motherjones.com | Artis Curiskis FellowBio |Artis Curiskis |Julia Métraux
The White House today announced the name of the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency: Amy Gleason, the US government’s problem solver in the early days of the data-starved response to the Covid pandemic and a seasoned worker in the health space. The White House named Gleason after it argued in court that Elon Musk is not really the head of DOGE, and faced pressure from a federal judge to say who is.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Artis Curiskis
3 hours agoBut not for the reasons he or Biden’s critics say Today, after 15 months of brutal war, Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to secure the release of Israeli hostages and the cessation of hostilities in Gaza. The agreement’s first six weeks will see Israel withdraw from much of the enclave and release …
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis |Anayansi Diaz-Cortes |Artis Curiskis
Posted inAccountability In 1898, a stolen election in North Carolina laid the foundations of the Jim Crow South and much of the structural racism that continues today.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Anayansi Diaz-Cortes |Taki Telonidis |Steven Rascon |Artis Curiskis
The right to asylum has been enshrined in US law since the 1950s. It’s meant to provide a safe haven for people fleeing violence and government persecution. Laura Ascencio Bautista and her family have faced both in Mexico, where her brother Benjamin disappeared along with 42 others in 2014 after police stormed a bus from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College. In the years since, violence in her home state of Guerrero left Bautista desperate. She heard asylum was created for people like her.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Anayansi Diaz-Cortes |Taki Telonidis |Artis Curiskis |Zulema Cobb
Posted inImmigration US policies triggered a cycle of violence in Mexico, putting innocent families in harm’s way. Many have fled north to seek asylum at the border.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Jessica Malaty Rivera |Kara Oehler |Artis Curiskis |Michael I Schiller
At the height of the pandemic, COVID-19 was talked about as “the great equalizer,” an idea touted by celebrities and politicians from Madonna to then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. But that was a myth. Ibram X.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Jessica Malaty Rivera |Kara Oehler |Artis Curiskis |Michael I Schiller
In March 2020, health care technologist Amy Gleason had a daunting task ahead of her. She was a new member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force’s data team, and it was her job to figure out where people were testing positive for COVID-19 across the country, how many were in hospitals, and how many had died from the disease. Gleason was shocked to find that data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wasn’t reflecting the immediate impact of the coronavirus.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Jessica Malaty Rivera |Kara Oehler |Artis Curiskis |Michael I Schiller
The United States has 4% of the world’s population but more than 16% of COVID-19 deaths. Back in February 2020, reporters Rob Meyer and Alexis Madrigal from The Atlantic were trying to find solid data about the rising pandemic. They published a story that revealed a scary truth: The U.S. didn’t know where COVID-19 was spreading because few tests were available.
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Apr 29, 2023 | 
revealnews.org | Jessica Malaty Rivera |Kara Oehler |Artis Curiskis |Michael I Schiller
This is the third episode in our three-part series taking listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19. Series host Jessica Malaty Rivera and reporters Artis Curiskis and Kara Oehler bring us the conclusion of The COVID Tracking Project story and an interview with the current CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky. We look at the myth that COVID-19 was “the great equalizer,” an idea touted by celebrities and politicians from Madonna to then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Ibram X.
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Apr 22, 2023 | 
revealnews.org | Jessica Malaty Rivera |Kara Oehler |Artis Curiskis |Michael I Schiller
This is the second episode in our three-part series taking listeners inside the failed federal response to COVID-19. In episode two, series host Jessica Malaty Rivera, along with reporters Artis Curiskis and Kara Oehler, asks a profound question: Why was there no good U.S. data about COVID-19? In March 2020, White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx had a daunting task for technologist Amy Gleason, a new member of her data team.
