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Latest Episodes

Saru Jayaraman on Tipped Wages
June 21, 2024

This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump told a Las Vegas crowd earlier this month that, if elected, the first thing he would do would be to end the IRS practice of taxing tips as part of workers

Jim Naureckas on Secret Alito Tape, Kennedy Smith on Dollar Store Invasion
June 14, 2024

Will elite news media now suggest we just go back to considering the Supreme Court a neutral body, deserving of life terms because theyre above the fray of politics?

Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict, Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Struggle
June 07, 2024

It is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called mainstream to go beyond the some say, others differ pablum w

Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge
May 31, 2024

Some courts are indulging the bizarre notion that regulation should be illegal, essentially, because it forces companies to say stuff theyd rather not say.

Ellen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic Freedom
May 24, 2024

The violent attacks on college students and faculty across the country showcase the abandonment by many educational institutions of their responsibility to protect not only students, but the space in

Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency, Ian Vandewalker on Small Donors
May 17, 2024

The 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery--but many people who vote do believe that.

Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion
May 10, 2024

US press are so used to driving the narrative they dont know what to do except yell shut up shut up shut up and send in the cops.

Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial Justice
May 03, 2024

Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future.

Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers
April 26, 2024

Colleges official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas.

Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country
April 19, 2024

The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.

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