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July 22, 2024 - Gautam Mukunda | Anthea Butler | Ben Burgis
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 22, 2024 20:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsHow the Most Important Hire in the World Has Been Made With, Good, Bad and Ugly Consequences | The Vice Presidential Sweepstakes and the Importance of Swing States | A Democratic Party Reborn backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 21, 2024 - Jennifer Mercieca | Will Bunch | Jacob Silverman
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 21, 2024 17:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Gulf Between Rhetoric and Reality As One Presidential Candidate Drones on Disavowing his Plans While the Other is in a Bunker Not Listening | A Recap of the Republican Convention and What it Tells Us About a Future Trump Presidency | How a Handful of Tech Billionaires Are Poised to Enact Thei...
July 18, 2024 - Alexander Stille | Samuel Moyn | Jacob Heilbrunn
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 18, 2024 21:14 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsMounting Pressure From Democratic Leaders on Biden to Step Down Could Overwhelm His Stubbornness | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | Doubling Down on America First, the Trump/Vance Ticket Will Undermine Democracy and the Rule of Law at Home and Abroad backgroundbriefing.org/...
July 17, 2024 - Joshua Shifrinson | Joe Conason
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 17, 2024 20:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsJ.D. Vance's Foreign Policy Views Plus Trump's Ties to Putin Spell Doom For Ukraine | 75 Years of Rightwing Conmen, Quacks and Charlatans Making Money Attacking Liberals, Influencing the Wider Political Landscape and Moving the Country to the Right backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmas...
July 16, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Tom LoBianco | Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 16, 2024 21:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Disconnect at the RNC Between Trump's Call For Unity and Partisan Speeches From MAGA Warriors | Republicans Pretend to Love Workers While Biden Loses Support Except For Unions | What is Behind Chinese Soldiers Drilling on the Border With Poland and Ukraine? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitt...
Forgiveness & Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda with Freddy Mutanguha
Stories of Impact - July 16, 2024 15:22 - 36 minutesToday’s episode offers a powerful example of courage, peace, and forgiveness. Our story looks back thirty years, to one of the most violent periods in modern history — the genocide against the Tutsi — and to the resilience and wisdom of the Rwandan spirit and heart. On April 6, 1994, beauti...
July 15, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Michael Greenberger | Kim Lane Scheppele
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 15, 2024 21:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsTrump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trump backgroundbriefing.org/dona...
July 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates Sexton
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 14, 2024 17:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsAssassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Klept...
July 7, 2024 - Gil Duran | Arash Azizi
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 11, 2024 21:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsA Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedom back...
July 10, 2024 - Christopher Whipple | Bhaskar Sunkara | Elle Reeve
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 10, 2024 19:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsInsight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of ...
July 9, 2024 - Bill Scher | James Goldgeier | Natalie Melnyczuk
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 09, 2024 21:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsAs Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, W...
July 8, 2024 - Simon Rosenberg | David Andelman | Francis Kagaru
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 08, 2024 21:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsBiden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Governme...
July 7, 2024 - Rick Perlstein | Andrew Feinberg | David Schultz
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 07, 2024 17:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsShould Biden Follow the Example of George Washington? | The Washington Gerontocracy | Will a Fresh Face Bring Back Younger Democratic Voters? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 4, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Lawrence Douglas
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 04, 2024 18:21 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsA View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Even If Biden Could be Convinced to Step Down Soon, He Would Be Making Himself a Lame Duck President backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmasters...
July 3, 2024 - Sam Rosenfeld | James Henry
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 03, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsA Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells | Will the Conviction of a Former Trump Business Partner Who Laundered Millions Into Trump Real Estate Revive the Trump/Russia Collusion? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ian...
July 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner Greene
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 02, 2024 20:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a Loaded Gun, Might Biden Also Use it? | How the Shift to the Right in Europe Could Impact the War in Ukraine | The Other Alarming SCOTUS Decision Overshadowed by the Ruling to Give Trump a License to Kill backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/i...
July 1, 2024 - Jeremi Suri | Lisa Gilbert | Philippe Marliere
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 01, 2024 22:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsIn the Service of a President Convicted of Crimes, the Supreme Court Allows Presidents to Commit Crimes | Hope in Dark Times as Many Americans Reel From the One-Two Punch of Biden's Debate Performance and Today's Supreme Court Ruling | Alarming Gains by the French Far Right as the Left and Center...
June 30, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | Richard Parker | Allan Lichtman
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 30, 2024 17:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsIf Biden is Lucky to Be Running Against Trump and Not a Younger Candidate, Does That Mean The Republicans Would be Worse Off Against a Younger Democratic Candidate? | The Impact of Biden's Disastrous Debate on the Democratic Down-Ticket | "Foolhardy Nonsense" Coming From Pundits, the Press, and A...
June 27, 2024 - Aaron Rupar | John Ganz | Thomas Zeitzoff
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 27, 2024 19:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsWhy Do More Americans in Swing States Think Trump is Better For Democracy? The Answer Might be the Local Influence of Sinclair Broadcast Group | How We Arrived at a Moment Where a Reality TV Right Wing Populist Captured One of America's Two Major Political Parties | The Author of Nasty Politics: ...
June 25, 2024 - James Risen | Bob Shrum | Thanassis Cambanis
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 25, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsA Journalist Who Faced Jail Under the Espionage Act on Assange's Plea Deal | Presidential Debate Prep and How to Fact-Check Trump From a Former Democratic Strategist | War Between Israel and Hezbollah Appears Increasingly Likely backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.c...
June 24, 2024 - William Snowden | Corey Brettschneider | Mike Lofgren
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 24, 2024 20:51 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsTrump's Open Declaration of War Against the Rule of Law | The US is Running Out of Ammo While Spending Trillions of Gold-Plated Turkeys As Enemies Have Plenty of Ammunition and Allies Make Better Ships Much Cheaper | Trump Follows the Far-Right Culture Warrior Governor of Louisiana's Call for the...
June 23, 2024 - Jeff Goodell | Tad DeLay | Sue Mi Terry
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 23, 2024 17:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Heatwave Baking the Planet and the Contrast Between Biden's Understanding of Global Warming and Trump's Denial | The Sources of Climate Change Denial and a Future Beyond Denial | Is the Putin/Kim Jong Un Pact Alarming or Pathetic as Two Murderous Pariah's Resume Their Love Affair With Trump? ...
June 20, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Lawrence Lessig
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 20, 2024 22:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsSecret Recordings of Trump's Dirty Trickster Reveals Plans to Steal the Next Election | How the Next Election Can Be Stolen and What to Do About It backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 19, 2024 - Melanye Price | Sidney Blumenthal | Edwin Lyman
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 19, 2024 20:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsJuneteenth and the Legacy of Racism in Texas | The Wholesale Self-abasement, Humiliation and Degradation in the Recent Groveling of GOP Lawmakers Before the Insurrectionist Who Directed the Attack on Their Capitol Workplace | The Senate Votes 88 to 2 to Boost Nuclear Power Based on "New" Reactor ...
June 18, 2024 - Robert Johnson | Jessica Melugin | Sung Yoon Lee
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 18, 2024 19:55 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsAmerica's Plutocrats Believe the Threat to Capitalism From Democrats is Worse Than the Threat to Democracy From Trump | A Critique of the Surgeon General's Call for Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms | Putin Meets to Make Weapons Deals With His "Comrade-in-Arms" Kim Jong Un backgroundbrief...
Wildlife Intelligence Explorers with Dr. Ian Miller, Dr. Felicity Muth, Dr. Tiago Falótico & Dr. Mauricio Cantor
Stories of Impact - June 18, 2024 10:57 - 35 minutesIn our last episode, we spent time with the extraordinary Dr. Jane Goodall, primatologist, writer, speaker, and conservationist. Dr. Goodall previewed today's episode, featuring the three recipients of the Wildlife Intelligence Project, a $2.7 million joint initiative between National Geograph...
June 17, 2024 - Asher Kaufman | Bob Dreyfuss | Rachel Schmalz
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 17, 2024 21:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsNetanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet as Tensions on Israel's Border With Lebanon Intensify | Trump's Gaza Policy Would Be So Much Worse Given Who He Put in Charge of Israeli/Palestinian Issues During His Presidency | The U.S., the U.K. and Canada Warn Putin is Actively Sabotaging Upcoming Election...
June 16, 2024 - Lisa Graves | Jane Kirtley | David Vine
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 16, 2024 16:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsHow to Reign in a Supreme Court Even More Out of Step With the American People | The Message Versus the Messenger Conundrum Following Revelations in the Alito Tapes | With Peace Talks Underway, Ukraine's Future and the U.S. Military Industrial Complex backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ian...
Difference, Diversity, and Intersectionality in Adult Education and Beyond: A Pride Month Special Episode
Humanities Matter by Brill - June 16, 2024 13:00 - 58 minutesIt’s pride month! In this episode, we discuss the importance of an intersectional approach to research, the role of adult educators in fostering inclusive learning environments, the power of pop culture in addressing gender and sexuality issues, the homogenisation of the heterogenous trans comm...
June 13, 2024 - Casey Michel | Paul Pillar | Alexander Stille
Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 13, 2024 21:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsThe Senate Launches a Probe Into Jared Kushner's $2 billion Payoff From Saudi Arabia's MbS | The Saudi/Israel Security Pact Biden is Doggedly Pursuing | Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni Hosts the G-7 Summit With Glamour Amidst "Dead Men Walking" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
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