CounterSpin

Federal workers, presumed to be easy targets, are also on the front lines of the fightback against the Trump/Musk federal smash and grab.

Fossil fuel corporations' lawsuits against those who challenge their destruction take aim at our ability to speak out about anything.

Corporate media can't bring themselves to call Trump's illegal, inhumane plan what it is: ethnic cleansing.

Corporate news media presented a campaign openly defined as uninterested in truth or humanity as a totally valid, “grassroots” perspective.

The Trump campaign against transgender people lands in an elite media climate in which trans lives have long been deemed "subject to debate."

The increasing influence of the super rich on the politics and policy we all have to live with is an urgent story, if not a new one.

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.