

CounterSpin
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
CounterSpin is the weekly radio show of FAIR, the national media watch group.
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Jun 20, 2025 • 28min
Michael Galant on Sanctions & Immigration, LaToya Parker on Budget’s Racial Impacts
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.

Jun 13, 2025 • 28min
Chip Gibbons on Freeing Mahmoud Khalil, Farrah Hassen on Criminalizing Homelessness
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.

Jun 6, 2025 • 28min
Jeff Hauser on DOGE After Musk, Katya Schwenk on Boeing Deal
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.

May 30, 2025 • 28min
Tom Morello on Music as Protest
Tom Morello's music has always been intertwined with his activism and advocacy for social, racial and economic justice.

May 23, 2025 • 28min
Bryce Covert on Work Requirements, Erin Reed on Trans Care ‘Questions’
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.

May 16, 2025 • 28min
Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s Aid Blockade
Millions around the world ask every day what it will take to awaken the conscience of leaders to stop the genocide of Palestinians.

May 9, 2025 • 28min
Bartlett Naylor on Meme Coin Grift, Ashley Nunes on Public Land Selloff
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.

May 2, 2025 • 28min
Tanya Clay House on Freedom to Learn, Danaka Katovich on Attacks on Activists
The Trump White House seeks to denounce and derail multiracial democracy—in part by erasing the history of Black people in this country.

Apr 18, 2025 • 28min
Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen Distortions
The Yemeni people are paying the price both for the fighting and for the distortions around it, from political elites and their media amplifiers.

Apr 11, 2025 • 28min
Dara Lind on Criminalizing Immigrants
What can thinking, feeling human beings do now to protect fellow humans who are immigrants in this country?