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

Cable news coverage of victims, war crimes and context show a double standard when it comes to US allies versus official US enemies.

The question is whether the Court’s conservative majority can use its special brand of backwards-looking to determine this country’s future.

Shouldn't the press corps be actively involved in informing us about the person third in line for the presidency?

“The newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

Paxlovid's "transition" to the commercial market entails hiking the cost of the treatment to 100 times the cost of production.

The primary food aid program, SNAP, while the constant target of the racist, drown-government-in-the-bathtub crowd, keeps on keeping on.

    This week on CounterSpin:  In the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas and the ensuing bombing campaign from Israel on the Gaza Strip, many people were surprised that CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria aired an interview with a Palestinian activist who frankly described the daily human rights violations in Gaza, the right of […]

Corporate media tell us to be mad at the rando taking toilet paper from Walgreens, but not the executive who’s skimming your paycheck.

The story is mostly about the political fortunes of an individual; the huge numbers of less powerful people impacted are, at best, backdrop.

An unprecedented labor action is underway as thousands of Midwest autoworkers working for the Big 3 went on strike at the same time.

September 11, 2001, is the exemplar of a past that isn’t dead, or even past, and for no one more particularly than Muslims.

Media have an active disinterest in telling the story of the Korean peninsula in anything other than static, cartoonish terms.

It does no disservice to the education battles of the current day to connect them to previous battles and conversations.

The ADA demands all kinds of attention, every day—not a once a year pat on the back about "how far we’ve come."

Unlike elite media’s misty memories, the lawsuit is a stubborn indication that those responsible for Abu Ghraib haven't been called to account.

Facial recognition, a technology that has been proven wrong, has been deemed harmful, in principle and in practice, for years now.

Elite media are deeply accustomed to calling any union action a harm, and any company acknowledgment of workers’ value a concession.

Advocates have long declared that Biden’s asylum restrictions are not just harmful but unlawful. And a federal judge has just agreed.

"Not a lot of people would understand that Black women are often killed by the police when they actually ask for help."

Say Her Name is about adding Black women to our understanding of police violence—to help make our response more meaningful and impactful.

White supremacy and economic policy are completely different stories for the press, but not for the people.

There is no way to fight climate disruption without fighting climate disrupters.

The impacts of the Dobbs ruling are still reverberating, as is the organized pushback that we can learn about and support.

When Daniel Ellsberg died, media burnished their own reputation as truth-tellers while somehow dishonoring the practice of truth-telling.