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3 days ago | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Al Letson |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Brett Myers
Just a few months ago, pro-Palestinian college students around the country were getting arrested and detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But some are now challenging their detentions in court—and getting released. Last week, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil, the first known pro-Palestinian activist arrested by ICE under the Trump administration, was let out of a Louisiana prison on bail by a federal judge who called his detainment unconstitutional.
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1 week ago | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers
Retired Brigadier General Greg Smith spent 35 years in the Army National Guard. He’s seen riots. He’s protected political conventions. He led the military’s joint task force in response to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. But he’s never witnessed the US armed forces being used the way they’ve been deployed recently in Los Angeles.
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3 weeks ago | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers
“It’s all gas, no brakes.” For David Hogg, a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, there’s little time away from politics right now, especially considering his $20 million campaign to disrupt his own party. Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and gun control advocate, is looking to oust what he calls “asleep at the wheel” incumbents in primaries around the US through his political action committee, Leaders We Deserve.
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1 month ago | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers
A record 45 million Americans were expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend, long considered the unofficial kickoff to summer. And most of them were hitting the road. Sarah Kendzior is no stranger to the family road trip. Her family, in fact, has visited 38 states—and counting. These trips were born out of a love and curiosity for America and a desire to explore small towns, vast National Parks, and the unexpected oddities along the way.
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1 month ago | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Brett Myers |Taki Telonidis
Lindsay Aime remembers the moment his Haitian immigrant community came under a national spotlight. It was September 2024 when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating people’s pets. To Aime, who is originally from Haiti but has lived in Springfield since 2019, the accusation was not just absurd. It felt like Trump was portraying his entire community as criminal.
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1 month ago | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers
Mike Hixenbaugh first knew things had changed when someone on a four-wheeler started ripping up his lawn after his wife placed a Black Lives Matter sign outside their home on the suburban outskirts of Houston. Hixenbaugh is an award-winning investigative reporter for NBC News. He’s covered wrongdoing within the child welfare system, safety lapses inside hospitals, and deadly failures in the US Navy.
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2 months ago | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers
Justin Wolfers teaches economics 101 at the University of Michigan. It’s an introductory course about supply, demand, and trade. The basics. He wishes President Donald Trump attended. Wolfers, an Australian known for his research on how happiness relates to income, is one of the more prominent economists speaking out against Trump’s sweeping tariffs. He says they not only betray the most basic laws of economics, but could very well tip the US into a completely avoidable recession.
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2 months ago | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers
For abortion rights advocate Lizz Winstead, her work has never felt more urgent. But her path to advocacy was a curvy one. She started out as a comedian, first as a stand-up and eventually as the co-creator of The Daily Show, which redefined television by deftly combining comedy and politics. “I kept getting increasingly unnerved and also frustrated that I was just shelling people with information, even though it was funny, and not giving them a way to fight back,” Winstead says.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers
Fraud, waste, and abuse: That’s what inspectors general are tasked with investigating throughout the federal government. For decades, these watchdogs have been a key layer of oversight, working to ensure that agencies are spending taxpayer money wisely. But in his first week in office, President Donald Trump did something unprecedented.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers
This month marks the five-year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed 1.2 million people in the US alone. While life has returned to normal for most Americans, the threats to our health haven’t disappeared. Hundreds of people in the US continue to die of Covid each week, while millions more suffer complications from Long Covid. We’re experiencing the worst flu season in at least 15 years.
