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Best of CounterSpin 2021
December 31, 2021

This annual round-up reflects all the conversations we hope have offered a voice that might help you interpret the news you read.

Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Election
December 24, 2021

This week on CounterSpin, we talk about the recent Honduran election and signs of hard-won hope in that country.

Caleb Nichols on Defending Public Libraries
December 17, 2021

Libraries aren't just a meaningful reality, but a meaningful symbol of the fact that there is a thing called the public interest.

Ralph Nader on Journalism and the Public Interest
December 10, 2021

A small group of people, willing to confront entrenched ideas and power, really can make change in the public interest.

Dorothee Benz on January 6 Insurrection, Vera Eidelman on Anti-Protest Laws
December 03, 2021

As the year nears its end, it’s hard not to think back to how it started—with the violent assault on the Capitol.

Carol Anderson on White Supremacy vs. Democracy
November 26, 2021

This can be a turning point, if more of us understand that history isn't something that happens to us, but something we DO.

Jon Schwarz on Inflation, Enrique Armijo on Alex Jones
November 19, 2021

You don't need to understand inflation, elite media seem to say, but you do need to be mad about it.

‘The Anti-Blackness of the US Is Extending to Black Asylum Seekers’
November 12, 2021

"Processing people and allowing them to come into the country is the best public health policy."

Peter Maybarduk on Moderna Patent, Tracy Rosenberg on Aaron Swartz Day
November 12, 2021

Drugs are developed by the government, and then pharmaceutical companies get patents on them and sell them back to the public.

Michael K. Dorsey on Climate Summit, Nekessa Opoti on Haitian Refugees
November 05, 2021

  This week on CounterSpin: The impacts of climate disruption are not theoretical; they are happening. Those already worst off are facing the worst of it, and those who profit from it continue to prof