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 […]

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?

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.

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.

The violent attacks on college students and faculty across the country showcase the abandonment by many educational institutions of their responsibility to protect not only students, but the space in which they can speak and learn freely.

The 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery--but many people who vote do believe that.

US press are so used to driving the narrative they don’t know what to do except yell “shut up shut up shut up” and send in the cops.

Different media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future.

Colleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas.

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?