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Latest Episodes
Silky Shah on the Attack on Immigrants
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the countrys national newspapers, its a conflict writ large as can or should be.
Katherine Gallagher on Abu Ghraib Verdict
A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called exceptional in every sense of the term.
Amos Barshad on Legalized Sports Betting
Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actorsbut how does it affect states, communities, people?