CounterSpin

CounterSpin


Latest Episodes

Julie Hollar on Roe Reversal, Tesnim Zekeria on Baby Formula Shortage
May 13, 2022

Elite media are interested in abortion as an issue, but it is not understood as a human right but rather as a partisan football.

Chris Lehmann on Multi-Racial Democracy, Mike Rispoli on Funding Local News
May 06, 2022

A new website uses critical race theory as a prism to explore the range of threats to multi-racial democracy and our ability to fight for it.

Josmar Trujillo on Hyper-Policing
April 29, 2022

"If it bleeds, it leads" journalism lets news outlets look as though they're tracking an important event in real time.

Dorothy A. Brown and Dean Baker on Tax Policy
April 22, 2022

Who pays taxes, how much, and why? We revisit two conversations about tax policy racism and taxing the rich on this week's show.

Layla A. Jones on ‘Lights. Camera. Crime’
April 15, 2022

The Philadelphia Inquirer's "A More Perfect Union" project is aimed at examining racism in US institutions, including media institutions.

Marjorie Cohn on Prosecuting Trump, Mike Liszewski on Marijuana Justice
April 08, 2022

  This week on CounterSpin: He wanted to go to the Capitol on January 6, Donald Trump tells the Washington Post, but the Secret Service wouldn’t let him. He hated the violence, and was furious Nancy P

Sarah Lipton-Lubet on Ginni Thomas Conflict, Dave Maass on Transparency and Journalism
April 01, 2022

Will we keep having a Supreme Court justice declaring himself "one being" with a spouse who declares the 2020 election an "obvious fraud"?

Carol Anderson on History, Race and Democracy
March 25, 2022

It's a good time to recall that we had a war in this country in which many people declared that they cared more about white supremacy.

Shireen Al-Adeimi on Yemen, David Arkush on Fed Climate Veto
March 18, 2022

Yemen is not a rhetorical device. It's a country of human beings in crisis.

Khury Petersen-Smith on Economic Sanctions, Greg LeRoy on Amazon Subsidies
March 11, 2022

Economic pressure is presented as a way of avoiding violence. But there's a problem with seeing sanctions as an alternative to war.