Counterspin

The Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail multiracial democracy—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country.

The Yemeni people are paying the price both for the fighting and for the distortions around it, from political elites and their media amplifiers.

What can thinking, feeling human beings do now to protect fellow humans who are immigrants in this country?

Kennedy’s unorthodox ideas may get us all killed while media whistle.

Pretending protest isn’t happening is aiding and abetting the work of the silencers; it’s telling lies about who we are and what we can do.

All that’s in the balance are human lives and health, and the ability of working people to plan for our futures.

Policy impacts on people with disabilities are overwhelmingly an afterthought for corporate media, though it’s a community anyone can join at any moment.

Federal workers, presumed to be easy targets, are also on the front lines of the fightback against the Trump/Musk federal smash and grab.

Fossil fuel corporations' lawsuits against those who challenge their destruction take aim at our ability to speak out about anything.

Corporate media can't bring themselves to call Trump's illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.

Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.

The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed "subject to debate."

The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.

Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.

Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks’ money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.

How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?

Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.

This is the time of year when we take a listen back to some of the conversations from the past year that have helped us clarify the events that bombard us.

Does banning TokTok threaten First Amendment freedoms? A judge says the government “acted solely to protect that freedom from a foreign adversary nation.”

While not the first to ask us to see the assault on Palestinians as genocide, Amnesty’s report offers an opening to ask why some are so invested in saying it isn’t.