CounterSpin

CounterSpin


Latest Episodes

Chip Gibbons on Trump’s Blueprint to Crush the Left, Cara Brumfield on Erasing Federal Data
October 17, 2025

Were in a fight for our right to speak up, and outbut its not the first time.

NYT Sidelines LGBTQ Youth Again in Conversion Therapy Case
October 10, 2025

Coverage of the conversion therapy case left out scientific and legal information necessary to understand whats at stake for LGBTQ youth.

Gregory Shupak on Gaza Genocide Denial
October 10, 2025

Major media suggest we use something other than our own eyes and judgment and humanity to assess the Gaza situation, and how to act in the face of it.

Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on Data Center Opposition, Keith McHenry (2024) on Homeless Policy
September 26, 2025

Something so vaguely named as a data center is actually a physical thing in real neighborhoods affecting real people.

Matthew Cunningham-Cook on Criminalizing Witness, Tim Karr on Media Compliance
September 19, 2025

Witness testimony is how we can resist official testimony about people "resisting arrest." And you can tell how much it matters by the efforts to shut it down.

Alex Main on Venezuelan Boat Assault
September 12, 2025

Can the Trump administration, or any administration, declare people guilty and summarily kill them based on that declaration?

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?