A small group of people, willing to confront entrenched ideas and power, really can make change in the public interest.

As the year nears its end, it’s hard not to think back to how it started—with the violent assault on the Capitol.

This can be a turning point, if more of us understand that history isn't something that happens to us, but something we DO.

That the Times has been prohibited at least for a time from publishing journalism about Project Veritas, and must fight off the possibility that the right-wing activist group may be able to essentially edit and censor a story after it is published, has press freedom advocates worried.

You don't need to understand inflation, elite media seem to say, but you do need to be mad about it.

"Processing people and allowing them to come into the country is the best public health policy."

Drugs are developed by the government, and then pharmaceutical companies get patents on them and sell them back to the public.

This week on CounterSpin: The impacts of climate disruption are not theoretical; they are happening. Those already worst off are facing the worst of it, and those who profit from it continue to profit. There are finer points, but that’s reality. And it’s fair to measure journalism not by its cleverness, or by demonstrated […]

This week on CounterSpin: An early October survey showed that while 60% of those polled knew that the Build Back Better legislative package was “$3.5 trillion,” only 10% had any sense of what was in it. That is many things, but preeminently a failure of news media—the demonstrably harmful effect of months of reporting […]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell received virtually wall-to-wall adulation in corporate media coverage of his death.