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Latest Episodes

Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and Public Health
September 05, 2025

Its only an opinion that its wrong that our federal health agency is led by a guy who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport.

Cathy Cowan Becker on Insurance and Climate Disasters, Aviva Chomsky (2016) on Workers’ Voices
August 29, 2025

You buy insurance in case something bad happenslike a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute.

Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism
August 22, 2025

The White Houses assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.

Ari Berman on Voting Rights Erasure
August 15, 2025

Voting: Everyone gets a voice; thats what makes us different, special and better. Is that ideal being subverted? Or have we misunderstood it all along?

Raeghn Draper on Tipped Workers, Pete Tucker on DC Stadium
August 08, 2025

Elite news media transmit the weird worldview that its appropriate to force tipped workers to please and appease patrons in order to survive.

‘The Fact That It’s Happening Shouldn’t Be a Surprise’:  CounterSpin interview with Ari Paul on genocide in Gaza
August 07, 2025

"I think it's a success of Israel's control of the narrative that sometimes it's really not well understood that the occupation is central to all this."

‘Criminalizing Homelessness Only Perpetuates It’:  CounterSpin interview with Scout Katovich on criminalizing poverty
August 07, 2025

"The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive."

Ari Paul on Genocide in Gaza, Scout Katovich on Criminalizing Poverty
August 01, 2025

Corporate media are now gesturing toward engaging questions of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. But what does that amount to at this late date?

Thom Hartmann on Epstein & MAGA, Han Shan (2009) on Ken Saro-Wiwa
July 25, 2025

To tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men is a terrible disservice to a story of the systemic criminal victimization of women.

Iman Abid on the Economy of Genocide, Victor Pickard on Paramount Settlement
July 18, 2025

The UN's Albanese has long opposed Israels genocide of Palestiniansbut what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.