More people are coming to consider that racist policing cannot be "reformed" with an occasional lawsuit and some implicit-bias classes. CounterSpin has had unfortunate occasion to discuss the issue many times.

More people are coming to consider that racist policing cannot be "reformed" with an occasional lawsuit and some implicit-bias classes. CounterSpin has had unfortunate occasion to discuss the issue many times.

"I would like to see them expose this hoax that somehow, promoting privatization benefits the neediest children, when, in fact, privatization hurts the neediest children."

We talk with Diane Ravitch about the latest scheme for rich folks to decide what's best for schools their children don't attend.

We talk with Diane Ravitch about the latest scheme for rich folks to decide what's best for schools their children don't attend.

Many Americans now recognize the racism at multiple junctures of the criminal punishment system. Especially now, as our leaders refuse to release the disproportionately black and brown incarcerated people from prisons and jails, despite their being sites of serious COVID-19 outbreaks across the country.  But even before the pandemic, some media have played a […]

Election Focus 2020: "The Wisconsin opinion seemed to signal that Republicans can do whatever they want to make voting more difficult, even in a pandemic, and the Supreme Court's going to say, 'That’s OK.'”

Election Focus 2020: No amount of ponderous, prize-winning books written in the aftermath will substitute for tough reporting done now to protect the integrity of the vote going into one of the most monumental presidential elections in the country's history.

Election Focus 2020: No amount of ponderous, prize-winning books written in the aftermath will substitute for tough reporting done now to protect the integrity of the vote going into one of the most monumental presidential elections in the country's history.

"Emancipation never really came to agriculture, in the sense that we still don't pay the full value of the labor that's required to make the entire system work."