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Latest Episodes

Dave Zirin on Football Prayer Ruling, Howard Bryant on Black Athletes & Social Change
July 01, 2022

  This week on CounterSpin: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion on Kennedy v. Bremerton that “the Constitution and the best of our traditions counsel mutual respect and to

Raed Jarrar on Biden’s Saudi Trip, Lindsay Koshgarian on People Over Pentagon
June 24, 2022

It's hard to parse corporate media coverage of Biden's Saudi visit, because that coverage obscures rather than illuminates what's going on.

Helen Zia on Vincent Chin Legacy, Alec Karakatsanis on Chesa Boudin Recall
June 17, 2022

It's 40 years since Vincent Chin's murder, with a depressingly resonant context of anti-Asian hatred and scapegoating,

Politico Paints Gen X as ‘Trumpiest Generation’—on Flimsiest Evidence 
June 10, 2022

On Biden’s and Trump’s favorable ratings, Gen Xers find themselves mostly in the middle among generations.

Lori Wallach on Vaccine Equity, Steffie Woolhandler on Insurance & Covid
June 10, 2022

There are people and policies, with names, preventing developing countries from accessing life-saving Covid vaccines.

Liliana Segura on Supreme Court v. Innocence
June 03, 2022

While alternative media are up in arms about the Supreme Court's ruling, corporate news media don't seem to think there's much to see there.

Igor Volsky on Ending Gun Violence, Pat Elder on Junior ROTC
May 27, 2022

  This week on CounterSpin: CBS News‘ website featured a story about the “grim task” of planning funerals for 19 children—shot dead, along with two teachers, in a Texas elementary school on May 24—rig

Matt Gertz, Eric K. Ward on the Buffalo Massacre & ‘Replacement Theory’
May 20, 2022

The Buffalo killer is a white supremacist who believes there's a plot run by Jews to "replace" white people with Black and brown people.

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.