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It&#8217;s not a rhetorical exercise: Understanding the limits of the dialogue possible in the elite but influential press is crucial to understanding our political lives&#8230;and the importance of maintaining spaces where we can openly debate and challenge a status quo that is harming millions of people and the planet. We hope all of our shows advance that effort; in our annual year-end review, we can only revisit a very few\u2014what we call the <strong>Best of CounterSpin 2018<\/strong>. You&#8217;ll find the whole year&#8217;s worth online at <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/counterspin\/\">FAIR.org\/counterspin\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/the-us-immigration-system-is-inherently-abusive-and-violent-and-racist\/\">Tina Vasquez<\/a>, immigration reporter at <strong>Rewire.news<\/strong>, on family separation and abuses at the border.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/with-kavanaugh-on-the-court-checking-and-balancing-is-not-going-to-happen\/\">Marjorie Cohn<\/a>, law professor and author, on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/disability-issues-tend-to-be-put-on-a-back-burner\/\">Andrew Pulrang<\/a>, cofounder of #cripthevote, on the 28th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/the-media-continue-to-promote-a-narrative-of-dependency\/\">Teresa Basilio Gaztambide<\/a>, director of Resilient Just Technologies, on Puerto Rico&#8217;s communications infrastructure and hurricanes Irma and Maria.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/data-needs-to-serve-a-public-safety-purpose\/\">Tracy Rosenberg<\/a>, executive director of Media Alliance and co-coordinator of the group Oakland Privacy, on\u00a0 surveillance technologies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/nothing-will-end-if-the-us-continues-to-support-saudi-arabia\/\">Shireen Al-Adeimi<\/a>, peace activist, on US support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/the-black-athlete-has-been-involved-in-the-political-struggle-from-the-beginning\/\">Howard Bryant<\/a>, senior writer for <strong>ESPN.com<\/strong>, on black athletes and the politics of patriotism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Featured image: Andrew Pulrang, Tina Vasquez, Shireen Al-Adeimi, Howard Bryant<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/best-of-counterspin-2018\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play Stop pop out X MP3jPLAYLISTS.MI_0 = [ { name: &#8220;CounterSpin Best of 2018 Full Show &#8220;, formats: [&#8220;mp3&#8221;], mp3: &#8220;aHR0cDovL3d3dy5mYWlyLm9yZy9hdWRpby9jb3VudGVyc3Bpbi9Db3VudGVyU3BpbkJlc3RvZjIwMTgubXAz&#8221;, counterpart:&#8221;&#8221;, artist: &#8220;&#8221;, image: &#8220;true&#8221;, imgurl: &#8220;&#8221; } ]; MP3jPLAYERS[0] = { list:MP3jPLAYLISTS.MI_0, tr:0, type:&#8217;MI&#8217;, lstate:true, loop:false, play_txt:&#8217;Play&#8217;, pause_txt:&#8217;Pause&#8217;, pp_title:&#8217;FAIR&#8217;, autoplay:false, download:true, vol:80, height:71, cssclass:&#8217; &#8216;, popout_css:{ enabled:true, colours: [&#8220;#fff&#8221;, &#8220;rgba(201,207,232,0.35)&#8221;, &#8220;rgb(241,241,241)&#8221;, &#8220;rgba(245,5,5,0.7)&#8221;, &#8220;rgba(92,201,255,0.8)&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}