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Nancy Altman on Trumpcare, Kris Hayashi on Transgender Non-Ruling
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.