Republican brinkmanship could devastate millions of people—along with the harm to public understanding of what's actually going on.
Hate-fueled and hate-fueling media have political and historical impacts—and interpersonal, familial ones as well.
A Texas judge revoking FDA approval of mifepristone may be a "confusing legal battle" for media--but for most people, it's just frightening.
Tax season leads some of us to ponder what we get in return for our resources—streets and stop signs, to be sure, but also wars.
Crushing Starbucks workers' attempts to work together is against the law—but it's not the sort of crime elite media seem able to identify.
Do Black and brown people have a right to move freely in the world? The Ciudad Juárez fire and what it tells us about immigration policy.
What passes for debate about why we must remain at war with whomever is designated has roots in 2003 worth studying.
The corporate press corps seems intent on forcing a vital, important situation into old, tired and harmful frames.
Media interest in historic breakthroughs should extend to the barriers disabled people face in 2023, and how policies could address them.
Jackson, Mississippi, residents who have been harmed many times over are being told that the appropriate response is to take away their voice.
Our past has not been fully grappled with or understood, and that has everything to do with what’s happening now.
Saying how hard you want to be on "dealers" is really an admission of a failure to address a public health issue as a public health issue.
What could be happening if Biden's long-languishing nomination of public interest advocate Gigi Sohn were put through?
Electric utilities have disconnected US households more than 4 million times since the beginning of Covid, preceding the Ukraine War.
The message from many politicians and their media amplifiers: Cheating on taxes is a luxury only the rich can, or should be able to, afford.
Lumumba's assassination, judging by attention, has no lessons for US citizens or the press corps about the past, the present or the future.
The public still look to news media to give them accurate, independently sourced and documented information to help them make decisions.
There's an unarticulated underpinning to elite media conversation that as a consumer, you don't have anything called a "right."
CounterSpin is thankful to every activist, researcher, reporter and advocate who appeared on the show, of whom this is just a small selection.
The Very Smart People will tell us that what we really ought to do, what the intelligent people would do, is, well, nothing.