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Aug 2, 2024 • 28min

Tim Wise on ‘DEI Hires,’ Keith McHenry on Criminalizing the Unhoused

The right wing has gotten much more overt about their intention to defeat the prospect of multiracial democracy, as demonstrated by its latest weaponized trope—the “DEI hire.”
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Jul 26, 2024 • 28min

Ari Berman on Minority Rule

If voting were made easier, Donald Trump said, "You'd never have a Republican elected in this country again."
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Jul 19, 2024 • 28min

Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s War on Palestinians

Years from now, we’ll hear about how everyone saw the nightmare and everyone opposed it. But history is now, and the world is watching.
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Jul 12, 2024 • 28min

Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor

At some point, we will get tired of hearing news reports on "record heat"—because "heat" will have stopped meaning what it once may have meant.
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Jul 5, 2024 • 28min

Hatim Rahman on Algorithms’ ‘Invisible Cage’

Algorithms create an environment where organizations enact rules for workers’ behavior, reward and sanction them based on that, but never allow workers to see these accountancies.
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Jun 28, 2024 • 28min

David Himmelstein on Medicare Dis-Advantage, Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis Equity

The cynical maneuvers of Medicare Advantage don’t lead to good health outcomes, but they serve the real goal: netting private insurers more money.
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Jun 21, 2024 • 28min

Saru Jayaraman on Tipped Wages

This week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump told a Las Vegas crowd earlier this month that, if elected, the “first thing” he would do would be to end the IRS practice of taxing tips as part of workers’ regular income. “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very […]
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Jun 14, 2024 • 28min

Jim Naureckas on Secret Alito Tape, Kennedy Smith on Dollar Store Invasion

Will elite news media now suggest we just go back to considering the Supreme Court a neutral body, deserving of life terms because they’re above the fray of politics?
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Jun 7, 2024 • 28min

Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict, Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access Struggle

It is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called “mainstream” to go beyond the “some say, others differ” pablum we often see.
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May 31, 2024 • 28min

Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment Dodge

Some courts are indulging the bizarre notion that regulation should be illegal, essentially, because it forces companies to say stuff they’d rather not say.

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