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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 ratings
How 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

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July 21, 2024 - Jennifer Mercieca | Will Bunch | Jacob Silverman

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 21, 2024 17:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
The 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...

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July 18, 2024 - Alexander Stille | Samuel Moyn | Jacob Heilbrunn

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 18, 2024 21:14 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Mounting 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/...

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July 17, 2024 - Joshua Shifrinson | Joe Conason

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 17, 2024 20:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
J.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...

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78 - Book Review: Waste and the City

Urban Political Podcast - July 17, 2024 16:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating cons...

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Lessons from the Camden Coalition's Care Management RCT (Part 1 of 2)

The SIREN Podcast - July 17, 2024 15:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
This is the first of a two-part webinar series on implications of the Camden Coalition’s RCT results.    In 2020, a major article on “healthcare hotspotting” may have caught your eye. It did ours! The article described findings from a four-year, prospective, 800-person randomized eval...

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July 16, 2024 - Harold Meyerson | Tom LoBianco | Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 16, 2024 21:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
The 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...

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Mastering the Art of Personalization (ft. author Zontee Hou)

FUTUREPROOF. - July 16, 2024 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
In this enlightening episode of FUTUREPROOF., we dive deep with Zontee Hou, digital marketing consultant and author of "Data-Driven Personalization," into the nuances of creating highly personalized marketing experiences. Zontee brings her expertise from working with top brands and offers action...

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Currency v. Proficiency

The Human Behavior Podcast - July 16, 2024 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 28 ratings
Send us a Text Message. Are you in a profession where being up-to-date on your certifications isn’t enough to guarantee success in high-stakes situations? This week, we delve into the often-overlooked difference between currency and true proficiency in training. Inspired by a thought-provoking ...

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July 15, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Michael Greenberger | Kim Lane Scheppele

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 15, 2024 21:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Trump'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...

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Episode Eighty One

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast - July 15, 2024 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
In this month's episode, Çınla, Jennifer, and François speak with Professor Cheryl Misak, University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Fellow of the Canadian Royal Society, and Guggenheim Fellow, about Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, her highly regarded biography of t...

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July 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates Sexton

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 14, 2024 17:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Assassinations 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...

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July 7, 2024 - Gil Duran | Arash Azizi

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 11, 2024 21:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
A 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...

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July 10, 2024 - Christopher Whipple | Bhaskar Sunkara | Elle Reeve

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 10, 2024 19:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Insight 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 ...

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Organizational Dilemmas in Integrating Medical and Social Care to Improve Health Equity

The SIREN Podcast - July 10, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
On March 29, 2024, the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics convened a session of the Organizational Ethics Consortia Series on social care. Addressing health inequity generally requires attention to the most marginalized patients, whose health is often undermined by social, lega...

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July 9, 2024 - Bill Scher | James Goldgeier | Natalie Melnyczuk

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 09, 2024 21:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
As 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...

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Revolutionizing Pet Health with Telemedicine (ft. Mark Bordo, Vetster)

FUTUREPROOF. - July 09, 2024 13:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
In this exciting episode of FUTUREPROOF, Jeremy dives into the transformative world of pet healthcare with Mark Bordo, CEO and Co-Founder of Vetster. As pet ownership reaches unprecedented heights, Vetster is at the forefront of revolutionizing how we care for our beloved animals. This episode e...

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Exploring the global policy landscape - with Dr Rachael Potter

Psych Health and Safety Podcast - July 09, 2024 07:00 - 42 minutes
In this episode, Australian hosts Jason and Joelle chat with Dr Rachael Potter, Research Fellow for Justice and Society at the University of South Australia. We discuss her recently published paper developing a National Policy Index for worker mental health, involving input from 45 diverse countr...

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July 8, 2024 - Simon Rosenberg | David Andelman | Francis Kagaru

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 08, 2024 21:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Biden'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...

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Exposing Sources and Impacts of Election Disinformation Campaigns

Human Centered - July 08, 2024 17:48 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 9 ratings
Legendary tech journalist John Markoff (CASBS fellow, 2017-18) chats with 2023-24 CASBS fellow Young Mie Kim on her groundbreaking efforts to identify how shadowy groups use algorithms and targeted disinformation campaigns during presidential election cycles; measure their real-world distorting ...

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July 7, 2024 - Rick Perlstein | Andrew Feinberg | David Schultz

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 07, 2024 17:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Should 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

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July 4, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Lawrence Douglas

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 04, 2024 18:21 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
A 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...

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July 3, 2024 - Sam Rosenfeld | James Henry

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 03, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
A 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...

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July 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner Greene

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 02, 2024 20:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
The 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...

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July 1, 2024 - Jeremi Suri | Lisa Gilbert | Philippe Marliere

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - July 01, 2024 22:13 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
In 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...

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Megan Stevenson on Why Interventions in the Criminal Justice System Don’t Work

Social Science Bites - July 01, 2024 18:02 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 88 ratings
Do policies built around social and behavioral science research actually work? That’s a big, and contentious, question. It’s also almost an existential question for the disciplines involved. It’s also a question that Megan Stevenson, a professor of law and of economics at the University of Virgi...

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Recapping the Psych Health and Safety Conference - with Liz Payne

Psych Health and Safety Podcast - July 01, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, Australian hosts Jason and Joelle chat with Liz Payne, Head of Organisational Development & Learning at the Southern Eastern Sydney Local Health District and most recently, the chair of the inaugural Psych Health and Safety Conference (PHS Con 2024). During this lively conversat...

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June 30, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | Richard Parker | Allan Lichtman

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 30, 2024 17:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
If 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...

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Episode 100 Selfish wishes for social change

Structured Visions - June 29, 2024 15:33 - 45 minutes
What are your top three wishes? Are they selfish? As it happens, your wishes may be worse than selfish—they may be toxically self-effacing. If you participate, on whatever level, in a society in which people are continually and oppressively bullied into thinking they need to be someone other t...

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June 27, 2024 - Aaron Rupar | John Ganz | Thomas Zeitzoff

Background Briefing with Ian Masters - June 27, 2024 19:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 551 ratings
Why 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: ...