Julie Hollar and Jim Naureckas on Placing Blame for Trump
We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas.
CounterSpin
Nicole Foy on Immigration and Labor
News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate around how to “stem” or “control” it.
Shawn Musgrave, Orion Danjuma on Vote Fraud Hoax as Voter Suppression
Trump’s “Big Lie” attorneys are not so much returning to the field, but actually never left.
Chip Gibbons on Gaza First Amendment Alert
Defending Rights & Dissent has started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday.
George Lipsitz on the Impacts of Housing Discrimination
A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affects where people live; it reframes the understanding of the role of housing.
Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate, Insha Rahman on Immigration Conversation
Why are events we pay insurance for a “crisis” for the industry we pay it to? The unceasing effects of climate disruption will only throw that question into more relief.
Mohamad Bazzi on Israeli Terror Attacks
As every day brings news of new carnage, US citizens have a duty not to look away, given our government’s critical role in arming Israel and ignoring its crimes.
Jen Senko on The Brainwashing of My Dad
Jen Senko’s film and the book based on it are an effort to engage the effects of that yelling, punching down, reactionary media.
Gregory Shupak on Palestinian Genocide, Robert Spitzer on Gun Rights and Rules
Why do the press corps need a constitutional amendment to protect their ability to speak if all they’re going to say is, “oh well”?
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad & Algernon Austin on the Black Economy
A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.
Freddy Brewster on Supermarket Megamerger
Kroger is currently raising the prices of things like eggs and milk above inflation rates, simply because they can get away with it.
Steve Macek on Dark Money
How do we acknowledge the fact that many people’s opinions are shaped by messages that are created and paid for by folks who work hard to hide their identity and their interests?
Emily Sanders on Criminalizing Pipeline Protest, Victoria St. Martin on Suing Fossil Fuel Companies
The crickets you’re hearing about efforts to eviscerate the right to protest the impacts of climate disruption? That’s all intentional.
Lee Hepner on Google Monopoly, Shayana Kadidal on Guantanamo Plea Deal
Does the company that “corners the market” do so because people simply prefer what they sell? The anti-monopoly ruling against Google challenges that idea of how things work.
Tim Wise on ‘DEI Hires,’ Keith McHenry on Criminalizing the Unhoused
The right wing has gotten much more overt about their intention to defeat the prospect of multiracial democracy, as demonstrated by its latest weaponized trope—the “DEI hire.”
Ari Berman on Minority Rule
If voting were made easier, Donald Trump said, “You’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s War on Palestinians
Years from now, we’ll hear about how everyone saw the nightmare and everyone opposed it. But history is now, and the world is watching.
Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor
At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on “record heat”—because “heat” will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant.
Hatim Rahman on Algorithms’ ‘Invisible Cage’
Algorithms create an environment where organizations enact rules for workers’ behavior, reward and sanction them based on that, but never allow workers to see these accountancies.
David Himmelstein on Medicare Dis-Advantage, Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Equity
The cynical maneuvers of Medicare Advantage don’t lead to good health outcomes, but they serve the real goal: netting private insurers more money.
