The spotlight on the White House's inhumane agenda on immigration and immigrants is exposing more than the devastatingly cruel practices in force at the border, but also the numerous big corporate and institutional players that are—often invisibly—enabling that agenda.

It's true the government didn't make much of a case, and that the judge doesn't seem to understand how the internet works; but the deeper truth may be that we need to fundamentally rethink our antitrust approaches to a media/tech industry that is every day more influential.

"Before the anthem even started, players were involved in these types of social justice issues," says the NFL's Malcolm Jenkins. "And so for us, it's staying on topic, doing the work, supporting those who are doing the work and pushing forward."

A "narrow" ruling that should be read mainly as an affirmation of human rights? Or a foot in the door for a legal perspective that argues that demanding equal rights can be construed as constraining the liberties of those who say equal rights are against their religion?

"Every single time, they flip it to Congress, and they say, 'Well, Congress has to fix this.' And so far, Congress has fixed nothing. "

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has just ruled that workers can be forced to pursue complaints through arbitration sessions, behind closed doors and all alone.

Corporate media report the Trump administration's new rules, further controlling the reproductive healthcare that women reliant on federally funded family planning programs can receive, as a story about abortion--but proponents of such measures would tell you their designs are much, much bigger.

Cognitive dissonance has marked elite US media coverage of Gaza for many years. This week we revisit conversations with just three of the people that CounterSpin has heard from who are working to expand and deepen US audiences' understanding of Gaza.

The FCC has posted notice that net neutrality rules—the ones that keep service providers from favoring websites that give them money, and slowing down or "throttling" your access to websites that don't pony up—will disappear on June 11. Since abandoning the fight for an open internet is not an option, what do we do now?

CounterSpin revisits our conversation with historian Ellen Schrecker, and its reminder that while not everything old is new again, we have been down this road before.