The long-fought effort to get legal acknowledgement of the abuse of Iraqi detainees in the Iraq War is coming to a federal court in Virginia.

What needs to change in Haiti includes Western media presentations that ignore or erase even recent history.

Corporate profit margins are at a level not seen since the 1950s, as abject greed was whistled past by the press corps.

A senior UN human rights official says there is a "plausible" case that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, a war crime.

Elite media still can’t quite connect images of floods or fires to the triumphant shareholder meetings of the fossil fuel companies.

Industry still argues that that cellphone isn't really "yours," in the sense that you can't fix it if it breaks.

Donald Trump could declare himself above the law—and that’s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.

If we don’t ask different questions about what we need from journalism, we will arrive at the same old unsatisfactory responses.

As the US falls more out of step with the world, many in the US press seem divorced from the idea of US responsibility.

Acheson v. Laufer is another example of “weaponizing the courts to dismantle labor protections, housing rights and health guidelines.”

The rapid rise in inequality over recent decades should have generated deep alarm in news media. But there’s little sign of distress.

The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation.

What if there isn’t a "border crisis" so much as an absence of historical understanding, of empathy, of community resourcing?

Communities are hard at work reimagining public safety without punitive policing. There’s new work on those possibilities.

How does the New York Times’ assertion that “what Israel is fighting to defend is a society that values human life” stand up now?

Elite reporters are so removed from daily reality that they assume a raise in wages means fast food employees have to lose their jobs.

Corporate media’s single-minded obsession with inflation has left the public with an objectively inaccurate view of the economy.

US journalists invoke the First Amendment a lot, but not so much when it extends to regular folks saying NO to the US government.

CounterSpin is thankful to all the activists, researchers, reporters and advocates who appear on the show to help us see the world more clearly.

Powerful institutions, including the media, combine a selective understanding of free expression with a vehement desire to enforce it.

We can't have a public conversation about how fossil fuels cause climate disruption in a corporate media moneyed by fossil fuel companies.

The devastation of Gaza, and the vehement efforts to silence anyone who wants to challenge it, is the story for today.

Too many outlets seem to have trouble shaking the framing of abortion as a "controversy," or as posing problems for this or that politician.

Argentina's new president questions the death toll of the country's military dictatorship and calls climate change a “lie of socialism.”