CounterSpin interview with Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All.

In a few short years, “Abolish ICE” has gone from a position considered far too radical to receiving serious consideration from the Democratic National Committee.

A lot of social media users have been wondering why their feeds have been filled with far-right, often racist, content. For me, it started with more conservative media outlets and Republican politicians in my feed.

CounterSpin interview with Gina Plata-Nino on food aid cuts.

The energy blockade that the Trump administration has imposed on Cuba is hammering the island.

The congressional grilling of former White House Covid advisor Anthony Fauci, and the resulting editorial responses, weren’t good faith inquiries into the pandemic.

CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland.

Democratic Socialists of America candidates won several Democratic primaries for Congress and the state legislature in New York.

“Thirty-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech,” an Intercept headline (6/26/26) shouted days after a federal court sentenced eight anti-ICE protesters to a combined 450 years in prison.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on June 26 triumphantly announced the “signing of the Trilateral Framework between Lebanon, Israel and the United States.”

At the 250th anniversary of the United States, it’s worth returning to the 27th and final complaint the Declaration of Independence makes against King George III.

Left unmentioned in the editorials is that Bezos’ empire—via his space company Blue Origin and Amazon’s cloud computing arm, AWS—holds billions of dollars worth of Pentagon contracts.

New Yorkers elected progressives and democratic socialists up and down the ballot in June’s Democratic primary, in what even critics acknowledged was “an historic near-sweep”.

CounterSpin interview with Seth Stern on criminalizing dissent.

With extreme weather events worsening each year, and the world on track to surpass by 2030 the Paris Agreement’s attempt to limit global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, connecting these disruptive and deadly events to climate change is a key part of the story.

Former high-ranking Biden administration officials should arguably be facing charges at the International Criminal Court for complicity in the Gaza genocide.

When major newspapers write about the definition or prevalence of antisemitism, they frequently look to the ADL.

CounterSpin interview with Karma Chávez on academic freedom.

The local media have fanned the misconception that these are anti-Jewish protests, meant to intimidate Jewish worshippers attending synagogue, when in fact they are pro-Palestine protests against illegal land sales that are strategically held inside a house of worship.

The recently proposed budget from the Trump administration includes a $1.6 billion cut to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.