Jessica González on Facebook’s Promotion of Hate
Facebook has accommodated Donald Trump, allowing him to post false, incendiary and racist comments that would get another person sanctioned.
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Jim Naureckas on Covid’s Preventable Nightmare, Clare Garvie on Police Facial Recognition
Trump’s bizarre delusions on Covid-19 aren’t just bats in his attic; they’ve driven a response that is nothing short of disastrous.
Ezra Young on Supreme Court LGBT Ruling
A historic Supreme Court ruling declared that Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 does in fact make it illegal for employers to discriminate against a worker because of their sexual orientation or their transgender status.
Maritza Perez on Overpolicing & Drugs, Remington Gregg on Corporate Immunity
Overpolicing and violent policing have much to do with the so-called war on drugs, which serves as a pretext for the harassment of individuals and entire communities of black and brown people.
Alicia Bell on Police Attacks on Journalists, Elliot Mincberg on Trump’s Judges
Will police attacks on journalists lead reporters to back off, covering racial injustice from a safe distance? Or will they encourage them to work more deeply and consistently to amplify precisely those voices that the “forces of order,” as CNN called them, so vehemently want to silence?
Alex Vitale, Chase Madar and Shahid Buttar on Racist Policing
More people are coming to consider that racist policing cannot be “reformed” with an occasional lawsuit and some implicit-bias classes. CounterSpin has had unfortunate occasion to discuss the issue many times.
Diane Ravitch on Pandemic School Privatization
We talk with Diane Ravitch about the latest scheme for rich folks to decide what’s best for schools their children don’t attend.
Ari Berman on Voter Suppression and Coronavirus
Election Focus 2020: No amount of ponderous, prize-winning books written in the aftermath will substitute for tough reporting done now to protect the integrity of the vote going into one of the most monumental presidential elections in the country’s history.
Ricardo Salvador on the Food System & Covid-19
There is hope that the spotlight the pandemic is putting on problems in our food system could be the light by which we make changes.
Jim Naureckas on Coronavirus False Choices, Peter Maybarduk on Pharmaceutical Price-Gouging
Corporate media are constitutionally committed to leaving unchallenged the notion that our choice is between sending folks back to workplaces and public spaces that might be unsafe, and letting them stay home and give up paychecks and health insurance.
Diane Archer on Medicare for All, Sriram Madhusoodanan on Fossil Fuel Accountability
Before millions were unemployed, before Covid-19 began its sweep, healthcare was already a crisis, and the arguments against overhauling it were already visibly tired and specious.
Naomi Walker on Covid-19 Relief, Johanna Bozuwa on the Last ‘New Normal’
The $150 billion designated for state, local and tribal governments as relief from the Covid-19 crisis is nowhere near what those governments will need—and not just that, but forcing them to cut budgets just as they need to be spending more is going to drive a cycle that only hurts more those already hurting.
Mike Elk on Frontline Worker Rights, Joe Emersberger on Pandemic Sanctions
What would it look like to call corporate media’s bluff on their sudden, serious respect for working people who didn’t start being important because there’s a contagious disease going around?
Bama Athreya on Gig Economy & Covid-19
Strikes going on around the country right now are an indication of how workers are reacting to this moment, in which it’s being made painfully clear that they are deemed both essential and expendable at once.
Mary Grant on Water & Covid-19, David Cay Johnston on the Last Bailout
Along with many other things, Covid-19 has underscored the individual and communal harms of a water affordability crisis in this country that usually remains hidden.
Jim Naureckas on Covid-19, Dana Brown on Public Ownership of Pharmaceuticals
As we now sit, eyes glued to every media, journalists carry a great responsibility: to translate evolving information, projections and recommendations into accessible news that reflects appropriate gravity without being unhelpfully alarmist.
Julio López Varona on Puerto Rico’s Disaster Capitalism
Puerto Rico is a living lesson about climate disaster capitalism, the failure and cruelty of austerity, and the need for new ways forward.
Josh Bivens on Coronavirus Economics, Mandy Smithberger on Military Economics
Economic impacts of epidemics of life-saving and of war-mongering, this week on CounterSpin.
Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression
Election Focus 2020: When it comes to voter suppression, the fight is less between parties than between democracy and its demonstrated opponents
Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media’s inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
