Counterspin

It’s only an opinion that it’s wrong that our federal health agency is led by a guy who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport.

You buy insurance in case something bad happens—like a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute.

The White House’s assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.

Voting: Everyone gets a voice; that’s what makes us different, special and better. Is that ideal being subverted? Or have we misunderstood it all along?

Elite news media transmit the weird worldview that it’s appropriate to force tipped workers to please and appease patrons in order to survive.

"I think it's a success of Israel's control of the narrative that sometimes it's really not well understood that the occupation is central to all this."

"The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive."

Corporate media are now gesturing toward engaging questions of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. But what does that amount to at this late date?

To tell this as a tale about two uniquely bad men is a terrible disservice to a story of the systemic criminal victimization of women.

The UN's Albanese has long opposed Israel’s genocide of Palestinians—but what broke US warmongers was her naming corporations profiting from that genocide.

Along with many other hate-driven harms, the budget bill puts Stephen Miller’s cruel and bizarre mass deportation plan on steroids.

Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep “concerns” about Zohran Mamdani as a person.

US corporate media in war mode are a force to reckon with. We do some reckoning with media analyst Adam Johnson.

News media could help explain immigration by grappling with the role of conditions the US has largely created in the places people are driven from.

There’s an important legal development in the case of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, held without warrant since March for voicing support for Palestinian lives.

Reports are that Elon Musk is going back to make Tesla great again. We’ll talk about how to miss Musk when he won’t go away.

Tom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.

The feint Congress is using to cut Medicare—we’re just forcing recipients to work, like they should—is obvious, age-old and long-disproven.

Millions around the world ask every day what it will take to awaken the conscience of leaders to stop the genocide of Palestinians.

Our lack of knowledge of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will only hurt us in our response to the effects that the dealings around that stuff are having on our lives.