CounterSpin

As the year nears its end, it’s hard not to think back to how it started—with the violent assault on the Capitol.

This can be a turning point, if more of us understand that history isn't something that happens to us, but something we DO.

You don't need to understand inflation, elite media seem to say, but you do need to be mad about it.

Drugs are developed by the government, and then pharmaceutical companies get patents on them and sell them back to the public.

This week on CounterSpin: The impacts of climate disruption are not theoretical; they are happening. Those already worst off are facing the worst of it, and those who profit from it continue to profit. There are finer points, but that’s reality. And it’s fair to measure journalism not by its cleverness, or by demonstrated […]

This week on CounterSpin: An early October survey showed that while 60% of those polled knew that the Build Back Better legislative package was “$3.5 trillion,” only 10% had any sense of what was in it. That is many things, but preeminently a failure of news media—the demonstrably harmful effect of months of reporting […]

Chevron v. Donziger is a case a major fossil fuel company wanted to see silenced that has in fact had that effect.

OAN's audience has been told that Trump really won the 2020 election and that chemical cocktails are better for Covid than vaccines.

Though the Postal Service has always been a public good, its current leaders seem intent on driving it into the ground.

Media announce a rise in the murder rate with coverage steeped in false presumptions about what that means and how to respond.