Setareh Ghandehari on ICE Violence, Jon Schleuss on Pittsburgh Paper Shutdown
The Department of Homeland Security wants us all to think “immigration equals crime.” What happens if we do that? What would happen if we didn’t?
Michelle Ellner on Venezuela Invasion
Trump will simply declare that anyone who asks for justification is a terrorist. And news media will report that as one side of a two-sided argument.
Best of CounterSpin 2025
We call it the “best of,” but these are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year.
Kimberle Crenshaw on Anti-Blackness
US corporate media have a white supremacy problem: They decide whose ideas are taken for granted and whose deemed marginal.
Derek Seidman on Starbucks Strike, Mitch Jones on AI vs. Environment
Even Forbes has to acknowledge that even as the Starbucks strike “drags” into a second month, “global support grows.”
Judd Legum and Adam Johnson on Gambling on the News
We’re learning about the deal just struck by “news” outlets CNN and CNBC with the “prediction market operator” Kalshi Inc.
Alex Main on Honduran Election
As we record on December 4, the Honduran election is still in question. Not in question: the US’s long history of violently intervening in Honduras.
Jean Su on Challenging COP30 Narratives
Focusing on what people, including those most harmed, are doing, along with what’s being done to them, could help move debate off an outdated dime.
Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding
What if SNAP weren’t a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?
Gene Slater (2022), Richard Rothstein (2015) and George Lipsitz (2024) on Housing and Media
Housing and home ownership represent a critical vector in the project of a multi-racial democracy.
Madiba Dennie on Voting Rights Act in Danger
The argument is so specious a third grader could call it out. But if it comes from the Supreme Court majority, we are forced to consider it as serious.
Rachel Cleetus on Climate Culpability, Dean Baker on Trumponomics
News media need to locate the climate fight in the boardrooms of greedy people perversely trying to wring every last dime from our shared future.
Jeffrey Stein on Trump’s Boat Attacks, Katya Schwenk on AI Surveillance Pricing
Corporate reporters scratch their heads over how this bombing campaign might be legal, rather than discussing what tools can respond to wildly illegal actions.
Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data
We’re in a fight for our right to speak up, and out—but it’s not the first time.
Gregory Shupak on Gaza Genocide Denial
Major media suggest we use something other than our own eyes and judgment and humanity to assess the Gaza situation, and how to act in the face of it.
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Media and Power
Mumia Abu-Jamal’s 1982 conviction exposed flagrant flaws in corporate media’s storytelling around crime and punishment and race and power.
Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on Data Center Opposition, Keith McHenry (2024) on Homeless Policy
Something so vaguely named as a “data center” is actually a physical thing in real neighborhoods affecting real people.
Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Criminalizing Witness, Tim Karr on Media Compliance
Witness testimony is how we can resist official testimony about people “resisting arrest.” And you can tell how much it matters by the efforts to shut it down.
Alex Main on Venezuelan Boat Assault
Can the Trump administration, or any administration, declare people guilty and summarily kill them based on that declaration?
Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and Public Health
It’s only an opinion that it’s wrong that our federal health agency is led by a guy who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport.
