The 2 Best CounterSpin Podcast Episodes
1) Rakeen Mabud on Greedflation
The same people who earn wages also buy groceries, and pretending that we’re pitted against one another is not just mis- but disinformation.
2) Ruha Benjamin on Race After Technology
Some examples of discriminatory design are obvious—which doesn't mean the reasons behind them are easy to fix. And then there are other questions around technology and bias—in policing, in housing, in...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) Elizabeth Jacobs on RFK Jr. and Public Health
It’s only an opinion that it’s wrong that our federal health agency is led by a guy who claims he can diagnose children he walks past at the airport.
4) Cathy Cowan Becker on Insurance and Climate Disasters, Aviva Chomsky (2016) on Workers’ Voices
You buy insurance in case something bad happens—like a fire, or a flood. But if that fire or flood is driven by climate disruption? Well, wait a minute.
5) Joseph Torres on the FCC and Structural Racism
The White House’s assaults on the press corps are part of, and not ancillary to, their direct assaults on Black and brown people.
6) Ari Berman on Voting Rights Erasure
Voting: Everyone gets a voice; that’s what makes us different, special and better. Is that ideal being subverted? Or have we misunderstood it all along?
7) Raeghn Draper on Tipped Workers, Pete Tucker on DC Stadium
Elite news media transmit the weird worldview that it’s appropriate to force tipped workers to please and appease patrons in order to survive.
8) ‘The Fact That It’s Happening Shouldn’t Be a Surprise’: CounterSpin interview with Ari Paul on genocide in Gaza
Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR contributor Ari Paul about genocide in Gaza for the August 1, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Janine Jackson: The International Rescu...Show More
9) ‘Criminalizing Homelessness Only Perpetuates It’CounterSpin interview with Scout Katovich on criminalizing poverty
Janine Jackson interviewed the ACLU’s Scout Katovich about forced institutionalization of poor and disabled people for the August 1, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. ...Show More
10) Ari Paul on Genocide in Gaza, Scout Katovich on Forced Institutionalization
Corporate media are now gesturing toward engaging questions of Israeli war crimes against Palestinians. But what does that amount to at this late date?