Kara McGuirk-Allison

Annapolis

Radio and Podcast Producer at Freelance

Senior Radio Editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

Mom, MCM enthusiast. Podcast producer.

Articles

David Hogg’s Fight for the Future of the Democratic Party

3 days 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.
Rage and Resentment Are Killing the Great American Road Trip

1 week 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.
She Denied Mel Gibson a Gun—Then Trump’s DOJ Fired Her - Reveal

2 weeks ago | revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers

When Liz Oyer was appointed US pardon attorney in 2022 by President Joe Biden, she’d landed her dream job. As a longtime public defender, Oyer was now in a position to advise the president on the backlog of thousands of individuals seeking presidential clemency. But earlier this year, her dream job ended abruptly.
Pet-Eating Lies to Deportation Fears: Haitians in Trump’s Crosshairs

3 weeks 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.
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History

1 month ago | revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Taki Telonidis

President Donald Trump’s second term has swung a wrecking ball at diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and programs throughout the country. Few writers seem better suited to explain this unique moment in America than Nikole Hannah-Jones. A New York Times journalist and Howard University professor, Hannah-Jones has spent years studying and shaping compelling—and at times controversial—narratives about American history.
How Public Schools Became Ground Zero for America’s Culture Wars

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.
Josh Sanburn, Kara McGuirk-Allison, Al Letson, Brett Myers, Taki Telonidis, James West, Author at Reveal

1 month ago | revealnews.org | Taki Telonidis |Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson

Posted inMore To The Story How race, gender, politics, and the fight for public schools collided on one reporter’s front lawn.
How Trump Exploits Working-Class Pain

1 month ago | revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers

Arlie Hochschild, an award-winning author and sociologist, has spent years talking with people living in rural parts of the country who have been hit hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs and shuttered coal mines. They’re the very people President Donald Trump argues will benefit most from his sweeping wave of tariffs and recent executive orders aimed at reviving coal mining in the US. But Hochschild argues that Trump’s policies will only fill an emotional need for those in rural America.
What Trump’s Tariff Shock Will Cost You

1 month 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.
She Launched “The Daily Show.” Now She’s Fighting Red State Abortion Bans.

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.