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June 28, 2024David Himmelstein on Medicare Dis-Advantage, Tauhid Chappell on Cannabis EquityThe cynical maneuvers of Medicare Advantage don’t lead to good health outcomes, but they serve the real goal: netting private insurers more money....more28minPlay
June 21, 2024Saru Jayaraman on Tipped WagesThis week on CounterSpin: Donald Trump told a Las Vegas crowd earlier this month that, if elected, the “first thing” he would do would be to end the IRS practice of taxing tips as part of workers’ regular income. “For those hotel workers and people that get tips, you’re going to be very […]...more28minPlay
June 14, 2024Jim Naureckas on Secret Alito Tape, Kennedy Smith on Dollar Store InvasionWill elite news media now suggest we just go back to considering the Supreme Court a neutral body, deserving of life terms because they’re above the fray of politics?...more28minPlay
June 07, 2024Matt Gertz on Trump Trial Verdict, Kandi Mossett on Dakota Access StruggleIt is a moment to examine the right-wing media that have fomented this scary nonsense, but also to look to reporting from the so-called “mainstream” to go beyond the “some say, others differ” pablum we often see....more28minPlay
May 31, 2024Katherine Li on Corporations’ First Amendment DodgeSome courts are indulging the bizarre notion that regulation should be illegal, essentially, because it forces companies to say stuff they’d rather not say....more28minPlay
May 24, 2024Ellen Schrecker on the Attack on Academic FreedomThe violent attacks on college students and faculty across the country showcase the abandonment by many educational institutions of their responsibility to protect not only students, but the space in which they can speak and learn freely....more28minPlay
May 17, 2024Steven Rosenfeld on Election Transparency, Ian Vandewalker on Small DonorsThe 2020 election was not stolen from Donald Trump through skullduggery--but many people who vote do believe that....more28minPlay
May 10, 2024Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah InvasionUS press are so used to driving the narrative they don’t know what to do except yell “shut up shut up shut up” and send in the cops....more28minPlay
May 03, 2024Joseph Torres & Collette Watson on Media for Racial JusticeDifferent media, telling different stories, can change our understanding of our past, our present and our future....more28minPlay
April 26, 2024Sam on Students for Justice in Palestine, Sally Dworak-Fisher on Delivery WorkersColleges’ official responses to protests are gutting the notion that elite higher education entails respect for the free expression of ideas....more28minPlay