A coup and a corruption scandal, an economic crisis, and an outbreak of a dangerous mosquito-borne virus have not a few people asking how Brazil can possibly host a successful and safe Olympic Games in just...one month from now?

New Labor Department rules that mean more people will get overtime pay when they, well, work overtime. Why is that being portrayed as an attempt to "kill American prosperity"?

This week on CounterSpin: In August of last year, El Salvador experienced one murder per hour. With Honduras and Guatemala, it's among the most violent places in the world, which along with economic insecurity and government failures,

The 1964 New York city murder of Kitty Genovese started as a personal tragedy and a tiny item on a New York Times back page. Within months, it had become an internationally known, emblematic tale about the neighbors, 38 of them, we were told,

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), like all such agreements, was being negotiated in secret--until Greenpeace Netherlands released classified documents revealing elements of the deal the EU and the US were moving merrily toward ...

Exxon knew decades ago that the increase in CO2 from burning fossil fuels posed a global threat. And it acted on that information--with a conscious and vigorous effort to sow uncertainty about climate science and to forestall regulation on its industry.

The friendship between the US and Saudi Arabia faces friction, media said—but not Saudi Arabia's disastrous human rights record or anti-democratic government. Plus: is the situation in Brazil best summed up as "The People vs. The President,

"The global haven industry that we’ve allowed to grow up since the 1970s is really a direct threat to democratic governments and the rule of law."

We talk about using the Panama Papers to push for real change with investigative economist James Henry, and the dominant Hiroshima "narrative"—lamentable but necessary, ultimately saved more than it killed—with historian Sanho Tree.

Media celebrated the sentencing of Don Blankenship as the first time such a high-level executive received jail time for a workplace safety violation. But shouldn't we question why that is? And why was such a serious charge just a misdemeanor?