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Latest Episodes

Nancy Altman on Trumpcare, Kris Hayashi on Transgender Non-Ruling
March 10, 2017

What do Trump-backed changes in healthcare mean for the millions of people with disabilities and senior citizens who rely on Medicare and Medicaid?

Norman Solomon on Trump and the Press, Beverly Bell on Berta Caceres’ Work
March 03, 2017

Donald Trump says the press corps are the "enemy of the people." The press corps, in turn, say Donald Trump is "presidential." Where the people find themselves in this dance is unclear.

Mizue Aizeki on Criminalizing Immigrants
February 24, 2017

Resisting the viewing of immigration policy through a lens of criminality will be key in moving toward a humane vision of immigration.

Jessica Gonzalez on FCC Chair Ajit Pai
February 17, 2017

What's ahead for the public interest under Ajit Pai, Trump's choice for chair of the FCC? CounterSpin talks with Jessica Gonzalez, deputy director and senior counsel at the group Free Press.

Kevin Kumashiro on Betsy DeVos, Amit Narang on Anti-Regulation Rule
February 10, 2017

Now that Betsy DeVos is confirmed as Education secretary, media need to disrupt the set of myths that carried her through, despite an evident lack of experience or expertise: Myths to do with "school choice" and "accountability,

Zaid Jilani on Trump’s Yemen Raid, Andrew Rosenberg on Science and Resistance
February 03, 2017

Some media accounts are describing the first raid on Trump's watch as "botched," but that's not the same as questioning it, much less putting it in a broader context of what's happening in Yemen and what the US is doing there.

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on Inaugural Protest Arrests, David Turnbull on Pipeline Resistance
January 27, 2017

Every day of the Trump administration brings new reasons to protest. But the mass arrest of hundreds of people protesting the inauguration, along with legal observers and journalists, tells us that the right to speak up still needs protection.

The Media and Martin Luther King - A CounterSpin special featuring Gary Younge, Rick Perlstein, Jim Naureckas and Brandi Collins
January 20, 2017

Media's traditional misremembering of Martin Luther King distorts his ideas and priorities, and rewrites the press's own role in history; it also projects a distorted vision of what protest means and how social change happens—a clear view of which is m...

Russ Choma on Trump’s Conflicts, Megan Hustings on Food Sharing
January 13, 2017

The question for the press corps is whether they will keep both feet in reality, or allow the perceived requirement to "include" the Trump camp's spin "redefine" previous understandings beyond recognition

Ellen Schrecker on the New McCarthyism
January 06, 2017

Pretending that fearmongering and watchlists and looking the other way are all newly minted will not serve us. In fact, we can look to history to help us understand what's happening, and what we can do to resist it.