If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it—well, two or three other times, at least: Democrats have found themselves in a content-creation war with the Trumpian right. And this pitched [...]

 Janine Jackson interviewed the Institute for Policy Studies’ Khury Petersen-Smith about Yemen distortions for the April 18, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250418Petersen-Smith.mp3 PBS (3/15/25)Janine Jackson: [...]

Today, a U.S. District Court judge blocked key parts of Trump’s illegal executive order that attempts to suppress voters, upend voter registration systems and hand over sensitive information to DOGE, stop states [...]

Say goodbye to the pause put in place by the Biden administration on student debt collection. Student Loan Update: Trump Gives New Deadline for Garnishing Wages: The Department of Education [...]

New York Mayor Eric Adams owes millions of dollars in legal fees and has no obvious means of paying it off, but he says that’s none of his constituents' business. The [...]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a meeting with El Salvador's Minister of National Defense Rene Merino Monroy at the Pentagon, last Wednesday.Nathan Howard/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the [...]

After skipping out on paying taxes for a decade, Donald Trump wants to make it more expensive for over 30 million Americans to pay their taxes next year by eliminating [...]

During Donald Trump's presser with the El Salvador's president yesterday, he claimed Cody Balmer, the man who set fire to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's residence was "no fan of his." [...]

The Trump Administration has fulfilled Project 2025’s promise to shut down the Department of Homeland Security’s internal oversight offices, including its civil rights office. The entire staff of those offices [...]

Eric Bolling got fired from Fox News because of inappropriate texting to colleagues. Plenty of room for him, though, on Real America's Voice. Bolling told White House Deputy Press Secretary [...]

FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s Trump pin (L) and a classic Mao accessory (R). Please don’t squeeze the Chairman! Are today’s hip Republicans still wearing American Flag lapel pins? So passé. [...]

With President Donald Trump waging war on the arts, via his control of the Kennedy Center and his ongoing attacks on museums nationwide, the power of artistic resistance has been [...]

Members of the US Marshals Service confer in South Abington Township, Pennsylvania, in 2018. Butch Comegys/The Times-Tribune via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter [...]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We look now at how the crackdown on [...]

On Friday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he expects Trump’s tariffs will raise inflation and lower growth. Powell suggested that the central bank won't move on interest rates. “We [...]

From our Budget Breakdown series highlighting problems in fiscal policy to inform the 2025 tax and budget debate. This week, Donald Trump unilaterally enacted a sweeping array of policies to [...]

The second Trump era is something of an exercise in natural consequences. What happens if you put the most flamboyantly stupid goons in charge of everything? The results will neither [...]

The American people have had enough of Donald Trump and his unaffordable, dangerous agenda. As inflation persists and Americans overwhelmingly expect Trump’s reckless agenda to raise prices even higher, it’s [...]

Thursday, March 27, 2025 Today, DCCC Communications Director Courtney Rice sent the following statement in response to the White House pulling Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be U.S. Ambassador to the [...]

Along with raising alarm about a massive national security breach—and questions about the competence of top officials in the Trump administration who "inadvertently" added a journalist to a Signal group [...]

Josh Parsons, loser, left, and James Malone, winner (campaign photos)Wowzers, Democrats flipped a deep red seat in a special election for the Pennsylvania state Senate on Tuesday night, with East [...]

If there is one lesson that centrist Democrats have taken from Donald Trump’s startlingly broad-based victory in November, it is that their party will never return to majority status unless [...]

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.Now PlayingTrump's firing of FTC commissioners speaks volumes about his love for billionaires06:14UP NEXT'Chuck Schumer's gotta [...]

President Donald Trump signs an executive order to start the elimination of the Department of Education Andrew Leyden/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily [...]

  Subscribe: RSS https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin250314.mp3Right-click here to download this episode (“Save link as…”). This week on CounterSpin: In early February, when Rep. Maxwell Frost tweeted that he and Rep. Maxine Waters were [...]

This majority-deciding victory builds on the DLCC’s streak of overperformance in special elections in 2025 WASHINGTON— Last night, DLCC Spotlight Candidate and Rep.-elect David Gottfried joined MSNBC’s The Last Word [...]

Americans’ 401(k)s are plummeting, unemployment is rising, and consumer sentiment is tumbling – all while Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary is desperately trying to downplay dire economic numbers by claiming he’s [...]

President Elmo had spent millions and millions of dollars to buy a presidency for his special pal, Felonia. He thought, literally, that he was king of the world. But now, [...]

The Senate voted on Friday afternoon to move forward with a Republican short-term funding bill and avoid a federal government shutdown. Ten Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, voted [...]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. “Elon Musk targeted me over Tesla protests. That [...]

SHOT: Donald Trump spent his campaign lying to the American people about a new “golden age” and promising to “rapidly defeat” inflation on Day One… NBC: “President Donald Trump declared [...]

Donald Trump’s victory has prompted significant soul-searching among Democrats about the future of the party’s economic policy. The right and healthy response at a moment like this is humility, evidence-based [...]