Anna Maria Barry-Jester
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How Biden’s Response To The Pandemic Is Different From Trump’s
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Anna Maria Barry-Jester of Kaiser Health News joins the crew to compare President Biden’s response to the pandemic with that of former President Trump. They also discuss a recent poll showing that if Trump were to start a new “Patriot Party,” it would have significant draw among Republican voters. → Read More
Politics Podcast: Would Voters Abandon The GOP For A ‘Patriot Party’?
President Biden’s first priority in office is addressing the coronavirus pandemic, and he has asked Congress to pass a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package. In… → Read More
Experts Think We Need An Army Of Public Health Workers To Safely Return To Normal
This story first appeared on Kaiser Health News, a nonprofit news service covering health issues, and California Healthline, an editorially independent publicat… → Read More
Why California’s Wildfires Are So Destructive, In 5 Charts
The Camp Fire in Northern California has already been the most lethal and most destructive in state history, and it continues to burn. The death toll, currently… → Read More
Even People Insured By Their Employer Are Worried About Rising Health Care Costs
It’s 2018, and Americans still want their politicians to do something about their health care. Which tells you something about Americans’ health care. Polls sho… → Read More
Partisanship Often Trumps Scandal
In California, a member of Congress was indicted this year on charges that he used a quarter-million dollars in campaign donations to purchase family vacations … → Read More
Many studies are fuzzy on race. Here’s why that’s a problem
“We need to think of race as a proxy for racism, rather than race as a proxy for biology," says Drexel University's Michael Yudell. → Read More
Can Vulnerable California Republicans Stay Out Of Trump’s Shadow?
TURLOCK, Calif. — By most accounts, Rep. Jeff Denham is a strong incumbent. He has represented California’s Central Valley for four terms in Congress. His camp… → Read More
Maps are powerful tools for revealing health disparities
Maps can spotlight striking geographical patterns in health and pinpoint the questions your reporting needs to answer. → Read More
Sex Ed Is About More Than Just Sex
School’s back! To celebrate, FiveThirtyEight’s science crew figured it was time to talk about sex. Sex ed, that is. Over the next few days, we’ll be discussing … → Read More
Why Religious Health Care Restrictions Often Take Patients By Surprise
When Angela Valavanis was deciding where she wanted to give birth, she didn’t give the matter much thought. Her obstetrician was affiliated with Presence St. Fr… → Read More
How Insurers Can Send Patients To Religious Hospitals That Restrict Reproductive Care
Last fall, about a month before her Medicaid coverage was scheduled to expire, Darolyn Lee realized that she needed to get her contraceptive implant replaced. L… → Read More
How Catholic Bishops Are Shaping Health Care In Rural America
Almost as soon as President Trump took office, he began rolling back health care rules that had angered religious groups for much of the last decade. First, Tru… → Read More
California’s weak rules on lead leave families few options amid housing crisis
A family with a young child in Los Angeles found dangerous levels of lead in their rental. But they haven't been able to find another home in the region's extremely tight housing market. → Read More
DACA Remains In Jeopardy, But Thousands Of People Are Still Enrolling
Despite a Trump administration announcement in 2017 that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program had come to an end, new data shows that more than 13… → Read More
With Pruitt’s Departure, More Than A Quarter of Trump’s Cabinet Has Changed
That’s a lot. → Read More
The U.S. Border Is Just One Of The Places Where Central Americans Seek Refuge
The U.S. isn’t the only place where Central American immigrants are seeking refuge. → Read More
What Do Men Think It Means To Be A Man?
Headlines this year have been rife with allegations of sexual harassment against many high-profile men. At the same time, an ongoing national reckoning over gender disparities in the workplace, the patriarchal social system and the role of masculinity in society are calling into question long-standing gender norms. → Read More
You’ve Been Arrested. Will You Get Bail? Can You Pay It? It May All Depend On Your Judge.
Graphics by Ella Koeze Quantitative analysis by Mai Nguyen When Dawud Moore heard he’d been assigned bail, he felt relieved. It was January 2015, and Moore, a b… → Read More
Media Reports About The Death Toll In Puerto Rico Are Needlessly Confusing
A study released last week by researchers from Harvard had lots of important things to say about life and death in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. In the weeks and months after the storm, hospitals were overwhelmed, pharmacies were low on drugs, and households went without clean water and electricity. The devastation of the island’s health care infrastructure likely led to hundreds of deaths. → Read More