Death Penalty Coverage, Domestic Violence Justice
We’ve been told to think of lethal injection as the clinical, tidy way for the state to murder people. CounterSpin revisits coverage of death penalty realities.
Terri Gerstein on Gig Workers’ Rights
Corporate media lionize corporations that make vast profits by exploiting their employees—such that those workers need government assistance to stay alive.
Sarah Anderson on the Letelier/Moffitt Murders
Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt died in a car bombing in Washington, DC, on September 21, 1976, that illuminated the results of US actions and inactions.
Raina Lipsitz on DSA Politics
When people try to fight for something better, we get a lot of noise about how that can’t work, and you know who else wanted social change? Communists!
Russell Mokhiber on Covering Corporate Crime
Interrogating the role of profit-driven corporations in today’s journalism is crucial, but it’s part of questioning corporate power over our lives in general.
Wayne Barrett (2007) on Giuliani and 9/11, Maha Hilal (2023) on Innocent Until Proven Muslim
As former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani tries to keep current Mayor Zohran Mamdani away from the 9/11 ceremony, it’s worth recalling how Giuliani made 9/11 worse.
Samer Araabi on Dissent as ‘Terrorism’
At a time where we’re being told that speaking out in criticism of those in power is a crime, we need news media that do more than just narrate that nightmare.
Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All
Corporate media talking about universal care don’t speak for the most of us, who just want to see a doctor, in a regular way, please. But they can speak OVER us.
Phyllis Bennis (2021), Matthew Hoh (2021) and Sonali Kolhatkar (2010) on Afghanistan
CounterSpin has hosted numerous reporters, researchers and activists over the course of the decades of devastating US intervention in Afghanistan.
Jessica Gonzalez on Paramount Merger, Isabel MacDonald and Steve Rendall (2008) on Islamophobia
Trump’s Justice Department greenlit the merger of Paramount with Warner Bros Discovery–but the merger, presented as a done deal, is actually on the ropes.
Gina Plata-Nino & Crystal FitzSimons (2025) on Food Aid Cuts
Claiming people working full-time jobs that don’t provide enough to feed their families are just grifters living high on your dime is a time-honored tactic.
Vincent Southerland on Black Voting Barriers
Obstacles to voting don’t have to be valid to have impact. And it isn’t just Trump’s lies, that media keep repeating, even as they call them lies.
Dorothee Benz on Prairieland Protest Case
Are you upset about ICE agents using your tax dollars to detain and deport people because they have a quota to fill? Well, my friend, you might be a terrorist.
Lauren Bonds on ICE Murders
The focus seems heavy on the notion that we need to “humanize” the victims of racist state violence, rather than challenge the humanity of those who enact it.
Phyllis Bennis on Iran War Costs
People worry the war on Iran has pushed the Gaza genocide out of corporate media’s attention. But media outlets make their own choices about what to present.
Mia Ives-Rublee on Disability Directive
Corporate news reporters whistle past a Trump administration directive advising states to ignore policies that integrate disabled people into communities.
Seth Stern on Criminalizing Dissent
Do you disagree with anything that the Trump administration is doing? Do you think you should use your voice to say something? Well, you might be a terrorist!
Dean Baker on the AI Bubble
Is there an AI bubble? How would we know? A new project engages questions, not just about price-to-earnings ratios, but about the predictable impacts.
Silky Shah on ICE Detention, Vanessa Maria Graber on Delaney Hall Reporting
We’ll have a conversation about what’s happening at Delaney Hall, ICE’s New Jersey detention center, and the bigger systems and structures in back of it.
Melissa Garriga on Data Centers
Data centers are very much brick and mortar—despite press coverage that suggests that artificial intelligence all happens in the ether somewhere.
