CounterSpin

Recent Episodes

Ari Berman on the Attack on Voting Rights

Posted March 12, 2021 • 00:27:52

Do elite media think that whether or not the US, in 2021, under pressure from racists, goes back on the whole "one person one vote" thing is a legitimate...

NYT Fails to Examine Its Participation in Brazil’s ‘Biggest Judicial Scandal’

Posted March 8, 2021 •

In article after article, the New York Times failed to share important information on the Lava Jato investigation. This helped normalize the 2016 coup...

Michelle Holder on Black Women & Minimum Wage, Alice O’Connor on the War on Poverty

Posted March 5, 2021 • 00:27:52

While a federal minimum wage increase would affect millions of workers and the social fabric, it would have particular impact on one "essential" yet...

Mitch Jones on Texas Freeze-Outs, Joe Torres on News for All the People

Posted February 26, 2021 • 00:27:52

If media really expect people to actively challenge the promises pushed—aggressively and constantly—by the energy industry, maybe they could do...

Celine McNicholas and Joanne Doroshow on Forced Arbitration, Kate Bronfrenbrenner on NLRB

Posted February 19, 2021 • 00:27:52

We get some background on forced arbitration and why it matters from previous CounterSpin conversations--plus we talked about the Trump-era NLRB while...