Kimberlé Crenshaw on the Equity Gag Order
Trump’s obviously suppressive executive order has been largely shrugged off by media that ought to be sounding the alarm.
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Liliana Segura on Trump’s Execution Spree, Gaurav Laroia on Ajit Pai’s FCC
As with many aspects of his presidency, the execution spree is both Trump being especially gruesome, and his simply making use of a gruesome machinery he certainly didn’t create.
Ricardo Salvador on US’s Dysfunctional Food System
As those of who do so celebrate Thanksgiving, we ought also to acknowledge the work that brings the harvest from the earth to the plate.
Ravi Gupta on Vaccine Infrastructure, Murtaza Hussain on Trump’s War on Yemen
The coronavirus crisis highlights the urgent need to reimagine our vaccine infrastructure.
Julie Hollar on Moving Democrats to the Right, Josh Bivens on Pandemic Unemployment
Blaming the left has been the practice of elite Democrats and their media abettors for decades.
Steven Rosenfeld on Vote Counting, Rey Fuentes on Rigging the Gig Economy
Even after election 2020, corporate media fail to highlight the break between those who believe in the democratic project and those who do not.
Special Program on Trump & Immigration
In our final pre-election show, we use the lens of one issue, immigration, to look back at four years of Trump policy and of coverage.
Mitch Jones on Fracking’s Hazards, Matt Sutton on Drug War’s Victims
Corporate media prioritize the supposed “risks” to the electoral prospects of Democrats who call for banning fracking over the prospects for human civilization’s survival.
Lisa Graves on the Story Behind Amy Coney Barrett
Understanding how we got to this place requires looking behind the curtain of the “partisan tug of war” narrative corporate media present every day, to see how a powerful minority in this country manages to use public institutions to do unpopular things.
Mary McCord on Unlawful Militias, Chip Gibbons on Assange Extradition
Unlawful militias manage to be part of the political landscape while somehow escaping rigorous media scrutiny.
Steve Wamhoff on Trump and Taxes
Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, discusses the takeaways from Trump’s taxes.
Laura Flanders on Journalism of Engagement
Laura Flanders, the original host of CounterSpin and the former director of the Women’s Desk at FAIR, practices a kind of journalism that’s meant to encourage engagement, not just in the stories it tells, but in the people who tell them.
Antonia Juhasz on the End of Oil
While we welcome the demise of an oil industry that does such harm, we have to remember that a creature can do tremendous damage in its death throes, and that a better way forward isn’t guaranteed, unless we fight for it.
Peter Maybarduk on Covid Treatments, Kia Rahnama on the Right to Protest
There is a connection—underexplored —between brutish police responses to peaceful protests and a history of Supreme Court rulings around the First Amendment.
Heidi Beirich on White Supremacist Violence, Howard Bryant on Black Athlete Activism, Sharon Lerner on Plastic Recycling and PR
This week on CounterSpin, we feature three archived but relevant conversations.
Phyllis Bennis on Foreign Policy Visions
If the US wants it, it’s “good”; accepting and internalizing that is the price of admission to Serious Political Conversation.
Karlin Itchoak on Wildlife Refuge Drilling, Steven Rosenfeld on How to Vote
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling is being reported as a Trumpian bad idea. Is that enough?
Liz OuYang on Census Sabotage
The United States has been conducting the census for some two centuries, but Donald Trump and his cronies have a new idea of how to do it that involves screwing it up entirely in service to a racist, nativist project.
Alex Main on Bolivia Coup, Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression
To the extent the Bolivian coup story’s being told, it’s being told too late. But CounterSpin listeners learned in real time.
Marjorie Cohn on Portland Secret Police
Militarized federal agents have been deployed with a mission reflected in Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s comment that city streets are a “battlespace,” filled with what Homeland Security Acting Chief Chad Wolf called “violent mobs.”
