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The Regressive Ideologies Behind the ‘Baby Bust’ Panic
Corporate media downplay or ignore the white nationalism, regressive gender ideals and economic inequality driving the “pronatalist” narrative.
The ‘Heated Rhetoric’ That Doesn’t Make CNN’s Bash Think Twice
After the thwarted attack at the White House Correspondents Dinner, some elite media have held straight faces as they decry violent rhetoric…from the left.
Derek Kravitz on Dynamic Pricing
While some states look into banning it, so-called algorithmic or “dynamic” pricing is being presented by the corporate press as a fait accompli.
‘Criminal Penalties Will Remain in Place Unless Marijuana Is Completely Descheduled’: CounterSpin interview with Maritza Perez Medina on rescheduling marijuana
“There are people who are serving decades-long sentences for marijuana….They’ve been really punished for what others are making so much money off of.”
‘The Targeting of Homelessness Has Been a Tactic of Authoritarian Regimes’: CounterSpin interview with Jesse Rabinowitz on criminalizing the unhoused
“We need to focus on the real cause of homelessness, which is the fact that rent in this country is just too damn high for more and more people to afford.”
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