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‘This Isn’t Just About Policy, It’s About What Kind of Nation We Want to Be’: CounterSpin interview with LaToya Parker on Trump budget’s racial impact
‘To Address Migration Requires a Reorientation of How the US Relates to the Global South’: CounterSpin interview with Michael Galant on sanctions and immigration
‘Their Goal Is to Equate Protests for Palestine With Support for Terrorism’: CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on freeing Mahmoud Khalil
‘Housing Unaffordability Is the Primary Cause of Homelessness’: CounterSpin interview with Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness
‘The Families Wanted Boeing to Face Real Accountability’:CounterSpin interview with Katya Schwenk on Boeing deal
‘Trump and Musk Are Attacking the Ability of Government to Protect Ordinary People’: CounterSpin interview with Jeff Hauser on DOGE after Musk
‘Dangerous Times Demand Dangerous Music’: CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest
‘Work Requirements Have Produced the Same Results Over and Over Again’: CounterSpin interview with Bryce Covert on work requirements
‘The HHS Report Was Put Out to Give Cover to Oppose Transgender Healthcare’: CounterSpin interview with Erin Reed on trans care ‘questions’
‘I’m Not Seeing the Horror Reflected in Corporate Media’: CounterSpin interview with Mara Kronenfeld on Israel’s aid blockade
‘This Budget Would Give Polluters the Green Light’: CounterSpin interview with Ashley Nunes on public land selloff
‘Crypto Is the Biggest Corruption Issue With Trump’CounterSpin interview with Bartlett Naylor on Trump crypto grift
‘Our Position on Palestine Is Not Fringe’: CounterSpin interview with Danaka Katovich on attacks on activists
‘The Fact That She Had That Miscarriage Was Enough to Justify Arresting Her’: CounterSpin interview with Karen Thompson on criminalizing pregnancy
‘There’s Never Been a More Blatant Corporate Incursion Into the Public Sector Than DOGE’: CounterSpin interview with Jeff Hauser on DOGE infiltration
‘Yemen Has Been a Place the US Has Seen Fit to Bomb With Little Public Discussion’: CounterSpin interview with Khury Petersen-Smith on Yemen distortions
‘They’re Doing Their Best to Turn People Who Have Not Committed Any Crime Into Criminals’: CounterSpin interview with Dara Lind on criminalizing immigrants
‘This Is an All-Out War on the First Amendment’: CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC
‘The Great Educator, Sadly, Is Going to Be These Viruses’: CounterSpin interview with Paul Offit on RFK Jr. and measles
‘Momentum Is on the Side of the People Protesting on Behalf of Palestine’: CounterSpin interview with Michael Arria on Gaza pushback
‘A Small Group of People Wanted to Do Away With Social Security From the Beginning’: CounterSpin interview with Nancy Altman on Social Security attacks
‘Anti-Disability Rhetoric and Policy Lies at the Heart of the Second Trump Administration’: CounterSpin interview with David Perry on MAGA and disability
‘These Strikes Are a Good Example of Why We Shouldn’t Just Succumb to Despair’CounterSpin interview with Eric Blanc on worker-to-worker organizing
‘If Energy Transfer Prevails, This Could Really Embolden Other Corporations’: CounterSpin interview with Kirk Herbertson on anti-environmental lawsuit
‘You See Just How Many Immigrants Are Dying on the Job’: CounterSpin interview with Nicole Foy on immigration and labor
‘The Point Is to Sprinkle a Little Doubt About the Election’CounterSpin interview with Shawn Musgrave on voter fraud hoax
‘We’re Witnessing This Global Tidal Wave of Repression’: CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on Gaza First Amendment Alert
‘Housing Discrimination Is Collective, Cumulative, Continuing’: CounterSpin interview with George Lipsitz on the impacts of housing discrimination
‘Americans Understand That Immigration Is a Fundamental Part of Our Society’: CounterSpin interview with Insha Rahman on immigration conversation
‘The Insurance Industry Is the Fossil Fuel Industry’: CounterSpin interview with Derek Seidman on insurance and climate
‘Western Press Obscured the Sheer Terror of What Israel Had Carried Out’: CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks
‘Genocide Can and Should Never Be Just a Normal Story’CounterSpin interview with Gregory Shupak on Palestinian genocide
‘There Are More Guns Than Americans, But Most of Them Are Owned by a Minority’CounterSpin interview with Robert Spitzer on gun rights and rules
‘We’re Hitting Record Highs, But Still Leaving African Americans in Economic Insecurity’CounterSpin interview with Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Algernon Austin on the Black economy
‘They See These Price Hikes as a Good Thing’CounterSpin interview with Freddy Brewster on supermarket megamerger
Freddy Brewster on Supermarket Megamerger
‘They’re Trying to Pass Laws to Make Dark Money Even Darker’CounterSpin interview with Steve Macek on dark money
‘This Was Not Caused by God, But Caused by Climate Change’: CounterSpin interview with Victoria St. Martin on suing Big Oil
‘This Is a Push to Pass Laws Criminalizing Protest of Fossil Fuel Infrastructure’: CounterSpin interview with Emily Sanders on criminalizing pipeline protest
‘Trying to Pull the Strings on a Prosecutor’s Judgment Is a Serious Problem’: CounterSpin interview with Shayana Kadidal on Guantánamo plea deal
‘Google Is Able to Profit Extraordinarily Off of Not Having Competition’: CounterSpin interview with Lee Hepner on Google monopoly
‘DEI Has Become the New N-Word’CounterSpin interview with Tim Wise on ‘DEI hires’
‘The Problem Is, There’s No Place for Anyone to Go’: CounterSpin interview with Keith McHenry on criminalizing homelessness
‘Our Most Important Democratic Document Was Intended to Make the Country Less Democratic’: CounterSpin interview with Ari Berman on minority rule
‘We Have More People Supporting the Rights of Palestinians to Life; It’s Huge’: CounterSpin interview with Phyllis Bennis on Israel’s war on Palestinians
‘The Design of These Systems Keeps People in Opposition to Each Other’: CounterSpin interview with Hatim Rahman on algorithms and labor
‘You Have People Who Only Look at Marijuana Legalization as Another Way to Make Money’: CounterSpin interview with Tauhid Chappell on cannabis equity
‘They Are Not Applying Universal Principles as Philosopher Kings’CounterSpin interview with Jim Naureckas on Secret Alito Tape
‘These Stores Are Unhealthy for Our Communities’:CounterSpin interview with Kennedy Smith on dollar store invasion
‘The Press Has a Problem Being Forthright About Trump Where the Right Has Rallied Around Him’: CounterSpin interview with Matt Gertz on Trump guilty verdict