CounterSpin

Immigration itself is now not a human rights story, or even an economic one, but yet another story about “their” crimes and “our” safety.

Many are calling out insurance companies that take folks’ money, but then hinder their ability to come out from under when these predictable and predicted crises occur.

How different is Thomas Friedman's insistence that China "let in more Taylor Swifts" from US media coverage of China and trade policy generally?

Corporate news media, tasked primarily with enriching the rich and shoring up entrenched institutions, will not do the liberatory, illuminating work of independent journalism.

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?