Counterspin

Years from now, we’ll hear about how everyone saw the nightmare and everyone opposed it. But history is now, and the world is watching.

At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on "record heat"—because "heat" will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant.

Algorithms create an environment where organizations enact rules for workers’ behavior, reward and sanction them based on that, but never allow workers to see these accountancies.

The cynical maneuvers of Medicare Advantage don’t lead to good health outcomes, but they serve the real goal: netting private insurers more money.

    This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump told a Las Vegas crowd earlier this month that, if elected, the “first thing” he would do would be to end the IRS practice of taxing tips as part of workers’ regular income. “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very […]

Will elite news media now suggest we just go back to considering the Supreme Court a neutral body, deserving of life terms because they’re above the fray of politics?

It is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called “mainstream” to go beyond the “some say, others differ” pablum we often see.

Some courts are indulging the bizarre notion that regulation should be illegal, essentially, because it forces companies to say stuff they’d rather not say.

The violent attacks on college students and faculty across the country showcase the abandonment by many educational institutions of their responsibility to protect not only students, but the space in which they can speak and learn freely.

The 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery--but many people who vote do believe that.

US press are so used to driving the narrative they don’t know what to do except yell “shut up shut up shut up” and send in the cops. The post Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah Invasion appeared first on FAIR.

Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future. The post Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial Justice appeared first on FAIR.

Colleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas. The post Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery Workers appeared first on FAIR.

The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia. The post Baher Azmy on Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country appeared first on FAIR.

What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history. The post Chris Bernadel on Haiti appeared first on FAIR.

Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps. The post Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation, Rachel K. Jones on Mifepristone appeared first on FAIR.

A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime. The post Phyllis Bennis on Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Robert Weissman on Boeing Scandal appeared first on FAIR.

Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies. The post Evlondo Cooper on Climate Coverage, Rick Goldsmith on Stripped for Parts appeared first on FAIR.

Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks. The post Gay Gordon-Byrne on Right to Repair, Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Honduran Ex-President Conviction appeared first on FAIR.

Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling. The post Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders appeared first on FAIR.