Is what we call "higher" education an individual investment or a public good? The way news media talk about it could be decisive.
This week on CounterSpin: Black History Month has always been something of a double-edged sword: It implies that Black history is somehow not “history,” that it has to be shoehorned in, “artificially,” to garner any value,
Understanding the Ukraine crisis involves letting go of the storyline in which the US equals benevolent democracy and Russia equals craven imperialism.
Why has the system broken down? You could say media's reluctance to critically break down systems is itself a system problem.
The spate of new election-meddling laws proposed in Arizona suggests that looking away from Trumpists' "audit" is not the answer.
A judge has approved a debt restructuring deal for Puerto Rico and the deal's architects are saying it means a "new day" for the territory.
While corporate media have largely let the water crisis in Flint go, the story isn't over, nor has justice been served.
We are a long way from understanding the full meaning of Guantánamo. But we can get the remaining detainees out.
The loss of an information source—a particular place for debate, for conversation, on issues relevant to you—is incalculable, but very real.
This annual round-up reflects all the conversations we hope have offered a voice that might help you interpret the news you read.
This week on CounterSpin, we talk about the recent Honduran election and signs of hard-won hope in that country.
Libraries aren't just a meaningful reality, but a meaningful symbol of the fact that there is a thing called the public interest.
A small group of people, willing to confront entrenched ideas and power, really can make change in the public interest.
As the year nears its end, it’s hard not to think back to how it started—with the violent assault on the Capitol.
This can be a turning point, if more of us understand that history isn't something that happens to us, but something we DO.
You don't need to understand inflation, elite media seem to say, but you do need to be mad about it.
Drugs are developed by the government, and then pharmaceutical companies get patents on them and sell them back to the public.
This week on CounterSpin: The impacts of climate disruption are not theoretical; they are happening. Those already worst off are facing the worst of it, and those who profit from it continue to profit. There are finer points, but that’s reality.
This week on CounterSpin: An early October survey showed that while 60% of those polled knew that the Build Back Better legislative package was “$3.5 trillion,” only 10% had any sense of what was in it. That is many things,
Chevron v. Donziger is a case a major fossil fuel company wanted to see silenced that has in fact had that effect.