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Latest Episodes

Ezra Young on Trans Rights Law, Anne Sosin on RFK Jr. and Rural Health
February 07, 2025

The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed "subject to debate."

David Kass on Billionaire Election-Buying
January 31, 2025

The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.

Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants
January 24, 2025

Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about their crimes and our safety.

Derek Seidman on Insurance and Climate (2024); Ariel Adelman on Disability Civil Rights (2024)
January 17, 2025

Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.

Dean Baker on China Trade Policy
January 10, 2025

How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?

Sonali Kolhatkar & Laura Flanders on Independent Media and the Year Ahead
January 03, 2025

Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.

The Best of CounterSpin 2024
December 27, 2024

This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.

Yanni Chen on TikTok Ban, Richard Mendel on Youth and Crime
December 20, 2024

Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.

Iman Abid on Israeli Genocide
December 13, 2024

While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnestys report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isnt.

Arlene Martinez on Amazon Misconduct, Neil deMause (2019) on Amazon HQ Fight
December 06, 2024

When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the countrys national newspapers, its a conflict writ large as can or should be.