CounterSpin

Latest Episodes
Jai Dulani and Vivek Bharathan on Data Center Opposition, Keith McHenry (2024) on Homeless Policy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
"The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive."