Counterspin

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.

When a corporate behemoth like Amazon buys one of the country’s national newspapers, it’s a conflict writ large as can or should be.

A federal jury has just found military contractor CACI responsible for its part in Abu Ghraib abuse, in a ruling being called “exceptional in every sense of the term.”

Legal sports gambling is the apple of the eye of many corporate and private state actors—but how does it affect states, communities, people?

If we're to believe the chest-thumping, high on Trump's agenda will be the enforced criminalization of immigration.

We talk about what just happened, and corporate media’s role in it, with Julie Hollar, senior analyst at the media watch group FAIR, and FAIR’s editor Jim Naureckas.

News media start with the premise of immigration itself as a “crisis,” with the only debate around how to "stem" or "control" it.

Trump’s “Big Lie” attorneys are not so much returning to the field, but actually never left.

Defending Rights & Dissent has started a project called the Gaza First Amendment Alert, which is going to come out every other Wednesday.

A new book doesn’t just illuminate the thicket of effects of systemic racism as it affects where people live; it reframes the understanding of the role of housing.

Why are events we pay insurance for a "crisis" for the industry we pay it to? The unceasing effects of climate disruption will only throw that question into more relief.

As every day brings news of new carnage, US citizens have a duty not to look away, given our government’s critical role in arming Israel and ignoring its crimes.

Jen Senko’s film and the book based on it are an effort to engage the effects of that yelling, punching down, reactionary media.

Why do the press corps need a constitutional amendment to protect their ability to speak if all they’re going to say is, “oh well”?

A people-centered press corps would spell out the meaning of economic “indicators” in relation to where we want to go as a society that has yet to address deep historical and structural harms.

Kroger is currently raising the prices of things like eggs and milk above inflation rates, simply because they can get away with it.

How do we acknowledge the fact that many people’s opinions are shaped by messages that are created and paid for by folks who work hard to hide their identity and their interests?

The crickets you’re hearing about efforts to eviscerate the right to protest the impacts of climate disruption? That’s all intentional.