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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.
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.
The coronavirus crisis highlights the urgent need to reimagine our vaccine infrastructure.
Blaming the left has been the practice of elite Democrats and their media abettors for decades.
Even after election 2020, corporate media fail to highlight the break between those who believe in the democratic project and those who do not.
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.
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.
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.
Unlawful militias manage to be part of the political landscape while somehow escaping rigorous media scrutiny.
Steve Wamhoff, director of federal tax policy at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, discusses the takeaways from Trump’s taxes.
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.
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.
There is a connection—underexplored —between brutish police responses to peaceful protests and a history of Supreme Court rulings around the First Amendment.
This week on CounterSpin, we feature three archived but relevant conversations.
If the US wants it, it’s “good”; accepting and internalizing that is the price of admission to Serious Political Conversation.
Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling is being reported as a Trumpian bad idea. Is that enough?
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.
To the extent the Bolivian coup story’s being told, it’s being told too late. But CounterSpin listeners learned in real time.
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.”
We’re looking at 20 to 28 million people facing eviction between now and September. Making folks homeless in a pandemic is just a flashpoint of this country’s affordable housing crisis.
