MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: Economic news is presented as facts and figures, but it’s also, maybe most importantly, a story, a narrative.  But whether it’s an article about companies using their tax cut savings to give workers bonuses or one about how few of them are actually doing that, corporate media’s economic reporting […]

It should now surprise no one that Trump's infrastructure plans—promoted in his State of the Union—have more to do with private riches than with public works.

Hundreds of thousands of women took to the streets in a show of resistance to the Trump administration, highlighting a range of threats to women's human rights and well-being; central among those is the assault on abortion access.

Whether it's Haitians or Muslims or Mexicans, Donald Trump's actions seem clearly driven by hatred. Media's job goes beyond identifying this animus, to countering the damage it inflicts with thoughtful, humane reporting.

A little-noticed Supreme Court ruling may fundamentally undercut the ability of women (or anyone) to band together in the workplace to fight harassment, pay inequity and discrimination.

Different people have very different visions of the way forward for Puerto Rico—depending, to put it simply, on whether you think servicing debt matters more than human beings.

At the end of the year, we revisit just a few of the conversations it's been our pleasure to bring you.

The Supreme Court has OKed full implementation of Donald Trump's Muslim travel ban—despite the fact that its constitutionality is still being challenged in lower courts.

Some perspective on the impact of Trump's decision to "recognize" Jerusalem as the capital of Israel--apart from what it means for "Trump on the World Stage,"

The electoral chaos in Honduras—where a president has not been declared nearly two weeks after voting—requires media to connect the dots between a bipartisan US foreign policy that supports leaders deemed friendly to US "interests," and the hardship and violence and voicelessness that pushes many to flee the countries run by those "friends."