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Latest Episodes

Did Public TV Doc Promote Peaceful Coexistence—or the UAE? 
July 09, 2022

A film that offers an entirely uncritical and glowing portrait of the UAE ought to make PBS take a closer look at the film's funding.

Adele Stan & Elliot Mincberg on John Roberts, Chip Gibbons on Why Assange Matters
July 08, 2022

A Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts has gutted multiple legally and societally established precedents.

Dave Zirin on Football Prayer Ruling, Howard Bryant on Black Athletes & Social Change
July 01, 2022

  This week on CounterSpin: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion on Kennedy v. Bremerton that “the Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and to

Raed Jarrar on Biden’s Saudi Trip, Lindsay Koshgarian on People Over Pentagon
June 24, 2022

It's hard to parse corporate media coverage of Biden's Saudi visit, because that coverage obscures rather than illuminates what's going on.

Helen Zia on Vincent Chin Legacy, Alec Karakatsanis on Chesa Boudin Recall
June 17, 2022

It's 40 years since Vincent Chin's murder, with a depressingly resonant context of anti-Asian hatred and scapegoating,

Politico Paints Gen X as ‘Trumpiest Generation’—on Flimsiest Evidence 
June 10, 2022

On Biden’s and Trump’s favorable ratings, Gen Xers find themselves mostly in the middle among generations.

Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid
June 10, 2022

There are people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving Covid vaccines.

Liliana Segura on Supreme Court v. Innocence
June 03, 2022

While alternative media are up in arms about the Supreme Court's ruling, corporate news media don't seem to think there's much to see there.

Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence, Pat Elder on Junior ROTC
May 27, 2022

  This week on CounterSpin: CBS News‘ website featured a story about the “grim task” of planning funerals for 19 children—shot dead, along with two teachers, in a Texas elementary school on May 24—rig

Matt Gertz, Eric K. Ward on the Buffalo Massacre & ‘Replacement Theory’
May 20, 2022

The Buffalo killer is a white supremacist who believes there's a plot run by Jews to "replace" white people with Black and brown people.