CIS does not provide a comparison of the cost of welfare going to immigrant and non-immigrant households–presumably because such a comparison would have weakened its anti-immigrant case.
Sep 04 2015
USA Today Provides a Platform for Anti-Immigration Think Tank’s Flawed Study
By Ben Norton
Sep 04 2015
Nima Shirazi on Iran Deal, Mark Trahant on Native Americans
By CounterSpin
The debate over the Iran deal has featured a wealth of misinformation about Iran and the pact itself. Plus: If indigenous people are, as the New York Times said, an “important political constituency,” why do we see so little news about them?
Sep 03 2015
Action Alert: NYT Gives a False Pass to US on Cluster Bomb Sales
The New York Times describes the United States as one of the countries that hasn’t signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions “but have abided by its provisions.” This is just wrong, as the United States continues to make and sell cluster bombs.
Sep 02 2015
Did ‘Ferguson Effect’ Cause Murder Wave? No. Is There a Murder Wave? Unclear
There’s a more fundamental problem with a New York Times story that suggested that criticizing police violence is (maybe) responsible for a rise in homicides: It’s not clear that the rise in homicides that the story is pegged to actually exists.
Sep 01 2015
US Leads World in Credulous Reports of ‘Lagging Behind’ Russia
By Adam Johnson
The New York Times maintained a long, proud tradition of uncritically repeating official claims that the US—despite having twice the population, eight times the military budget and a nominal economy almost ten times as large—is “lagging behind” Russia on a key military strategic objective.
Sep 01 2015
The Washington Post and the Federal Reserve Cult
By Dean Baker
According to Federal Reserve Board cultists, the Fed sets interest rate policy solely for the good of the country. Those of us who live in the reality-based community know that the Fed is hugely responsive to the interests of the financial sector.
Aug 31 2015
Missing From Reports of Yemeni Carnage: Washington’s Responsibility
Reports left out the information that made this particularly relevant to the papers’ mostly American readership: The US government is actively backing the air war in Yemen that killed those civilians.
Aug 28 2015
‘Corporate Media Really Want to Be Able to Say the Story Is Over’
CounterSpin interviews with Rosa Brooks, Colette Pichon Battle, A.C. Thompson and Jordan Flaherty on Katrina's 10 years of media neglect
CounterSpin interviews with Rosa Brooks, Colette Pichon Battle, A.C. Thompson and Jordan Flaherty on Katrina’s 10 years of media neglect.
