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Don’t Worry, Wall Street Journal—Health Insurers Are Profitable!
When insurance stock prices dropped sharply, business journalists fretted that private looting of the healthcare system might end.

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.

‘They Are Trying to Maximize the Amount of Money They Can Get Any Given Consumer to Pay’: CounterSpin interview with Katya Schwenk on AI surveillance pricing
“Consumers don’t actually have very much choice in many of these circumstances. So it’s not like they’re able to choose a lower fare from a competitor, often.”

‘The Government’s Own Disclosures Demonstrate These Strikes Are Not Lawful’: CounterSpin interview with Jeffrey Stein on Trump's boat attacks
“The public should be able to read the government’s legal justification right now, while there’s still an opportunity to stop these illegal and dangerous strikes.”

‘These Changes Are Reducing Our Power to Effect Positive Change for Families’: CounterSpin interview with Cara Brumfield on erasing federal data
“Manipulating the Decennial Census for political gain is so deeply undemocratic, and we need to talk about it in those terms.”

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When a Shooter Is Trans—and Not a Cis Male—Suddenly Identity Matters
Most media outlets focused on profiling the shooter—who was transgender—treating the shooting as an isolated case rather than part of a larger, systemic issue.

Western Media Manufactured Consent for Israel’s Murder of Palestinian Journalists
Most outlets accepted Israel’s premise that any number of bystanders can legitimately be killed in order to target a supposed Hamas member.

Media Largely Ignored Gaza Famine When There Was Time to Avert Mass Starvation
Gaza’s conditions of famine have been out in the open for well over a year, and yet it was considered barely newsworthy in US news media.

America’s Opinion Pages Overwhelmingly Supported Trump’s Attack on Iran
56% of Americans opposed Trump’s bombing. Why wasn’t this reflected in the range of opinions presented by America’s top press outlets?

NYT Less Interested Than Ever in Trans Perspectives on Trans Issues
Even while feigning concern, the paper of record remains largely uninterested in centering trans people and perspectives in coverage of trans issues.










