Background Briefing with Ian Masters
1,561 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 5 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 551 ratingsBackground Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues.
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July 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner Greene
July 02, 2024 20:13 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThe 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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 1, 2024 - Jeremi Suri | Lisa Gilbert | Philippe Marliere
July 01, 2024 22:13 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBIn 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 Maneuver to Block a Neo-Fascist Takeover of Parliament backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 30, 2024 - Robert Kuttner | Richard Parker | Allan Lichtman
June 30, 2024 17:11 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBIf 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 Anxious Democrats Clutching Their Pearls backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 27, 2024 - Aaron Rupar | John Ganz | Thomas Zeitzoff
June 27, 2024 19:33 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBWhy 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: The Logic of Insults, Threats, and Incitement backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 25, 2024 - James Risen | Bob Shrum | Thanassis Cambanis
June 25, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBA 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.com/ianmastersmedia
June 24, 2024 - William Snowden | Corey Brettschneider | Mike Lofgren
June 24, 2024 20:51 - 59 minutes - 55 MBTrump'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 Ten Commandments to be Displayed in Schools backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 23, 2024 - Jeff Goodell | Tad DeLay | Sue Mi Terry
June 23, 2024 17:41 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBThe 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? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 20, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Lawrence Lessig
June 20, 2024 22:59 - 1 hour - 144 MBSecret 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
June 19, 2024 20:57 - 1 hour - 141 MBJuneteenth 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 Technology That is Old and Less Safe backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 18, 2024 - Robert Johnson | Jessica Melugin | Sung Yoon Lee
June 18, 2024 19:55 - 15 minutes - 36.5 MBAmerica'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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 17, 2024 - Asher Kaufman | Bob Dreyfuss | Rachel Schmalz
June 17, 2024 21:30 - 57 minutes - 131 MBNetanyahu 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 Elections in Moldova backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 16, 2024 - Lisa Graves | Jane Kirtley | David Vine
June 16, 2024 16:26 - 1 hour - 139 MBHow 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/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 13, 2024 - Casey Michel | Paul Pillar | Alexander Stille
June 13, 2024 21:37 - 1 hour - 142 MBThe 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 facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 12, 2024 - Marcy Wheeler | Peter Goodman | Melissa Jacoby
June 12, 2024 20:47 - 1 hour - 145 MBThe Hunter Biden Trial as a Political Hit Job With More Humiliation of the Troubled Son Coming in the September Trial | How We Got Hooked On Globalism and a System in Which Corporations Win While Everybody Else Loses | How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 16, 2024 - Lauren Windsor | Joshua Horwitz | Philippe Marlière
June 11, 2024 21:03 - 1 hour - 138 MBThe Undercover Activist Who Captured the Real Justice Alito as a Christian Nationalist | The Hypocrisy of MAGA Republicans Celebrating Hunter Biden's Convictions on Gun Laws They Violently Oppose | President Macron's Call For a Snap Election Already Appears to be Backfiring backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 10, 2024 - Haggai Matar | R. Daniel Kelemen | Michael Kimmage
June 10, 2024 20:46 - 59 minutes - 136 MBIsrael's Opposition Leader Quits the War Cabinet But Netanyahu Will Continue the War Through the US Elections to Hurt Biden and Help Trump | An Analysis of the Results of the EU Elections and the Right Wing Sweep That Did Not Materialize | A Historical Analysis of Whether We Are in 1938 With Putin's War on Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 9, 2024 - Gregory Treverton | Nick Bryant
June 09, 2024 17:51 - 1 hour - 138 MBAlready Governing, Trump Has His Puppet Mike Johnson Appoint Two Clowns to Cripple the House Intel Committee | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 6, 2024 - Michel Paradis | Lindsay Owens | Jacob Hacker
June 06, 2024 21:26 - 1 hour - 143 MBThe 80th Anniversary of D-Day and Today's Struggle Against Tyranny | How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts For the Rich, Biden Needs to Make it Clear We Have a Revenue Not a Spending Problem and Make Them Pay
June 5, 2024 - Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Mark Hannah | Dr. Sumit Ganguly | Andrew Latham
June 05, 2024 20:29 - 59 minutes - 136 MBLegal Challenges to Biden's EO on Closing the Border | Agreements and Disagreements Between Americans and Europeans on China, the Wars in Ukraine and Gaza and European Security | An Assessment of the Results of the Elections in India | India's Foreign Policy Choices as Russia and China Grow Closer backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 4, 2024 - Margaret Hu | Justin Bulcher | Michael Brenes
June 04, 2024 21:13 - 59 minutes - 137 MBWill Biden's Executive Order to Close the Border Win or Lose Votes? | Although Trump and Biden are Raising Billions, Money Will Have Little Effect on the Presidential Race | Following the CIA, The Pentagon Falls For Silicon Valley's Promise of AI Miracle Weapons backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 3, 2024 - Chuck Collins | Aram Shabanian | Emiliano Polo
June 03, 2024 21:36 - 1 hour - 139 MBThe Oligarch's Lining Up to Line Trump's Pockets | The Upcoming Ukraine Peace Conference China Won't Attend Because Russia Won't Go and Now Saudi Arabia Won't Attend Because China Isn't Going | Will Scheinbaum's and Morena's Blowout Victory Lead to an Institutional Collapse in Mexico? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 2, 2024 - Sophia Rosenfeld | Jennifer Loewenstein | Laura Carlsen
June 02, 2024 21:28 - 1 hour - 141 MBAfter Getting MAGA World and the Trump GOP to Believe He Won the Last Election, Now Trump Has Them Believing the Trial That Convicted Him 34 Times Was Rigged | Are Biden and Netanyahu on the Same Page With the Gaza Ceasefire Plan? | Today's Elections in Mexico Will Result in a Woman as President For the First Time backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 30, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Robert Young Pelton
May 30, 2024 20:43 - 58 minutes - 135 MBWhy We Should Care About the Trump Trial and, With the Tail Wagging the Dog, Biden Has to End the Gaza War Which Netanyahu Plans to Continue for 7 Months | The War in Ukraine Has Gone From a Proxy War to a NATO Conflict backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 29, 2024 - Stephen Biddle | Zach Carter| Dr. Steven Nabieu Rogers
May 29, 2024 20:43 - 1 hour - 139 MBComplaints From Ukraine's Front Lines That Big Ticket U.S. Weapons Don't Work, Get Jammed or are Unsuitable | A Possible Trade War with China or a Necessary Stimulus For the Next Green Economy? | Today's Election in South Africa as a Referendum on the ANC Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
May 28, 2024 - Kai Bird | Andrew Cockburn | James Gray
May 28, 2024 20:43 - 1 hour - 143 MBThe Ghost of Roy Cohn Hangs Over Trump's Hush Money Trail as Closing Arguments Were Heard Today | Bibi and MbS Have Biden in a Trap and the Pentagon and the CIA Have Drunk the Silicon Valley Kool-Aid | The Libertarians Boo Trump and Quickly Reject RFK Jr backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 27, 2024 - Lucian Truscott IV | Stephan Schwartz
May 27, 2024 18:42 - 1 hour - 138 MBOn Memorial Day Those Who Serve America vs Those Who Want to Tear it Apart | Consciousness, Authoritarianism and Political Violence backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 26, 2024 - David Austin Walsh | Alexander Reid Ross | David Phillips
May 26, 2024 16:08 - 1 hour - 87.3 MBMany Staffers in Trump's GOP are White Nationalists Who Casually Use Nazi Terms Like "Unified Reich" Because That is Their Milieu and Mindset | The Political Grifters Who Co Opt Leftist Issues and Repackage Them in MAGA-Friendly Terms | As Armenia and Iran Come Together and Israel and Azerbaijan Grow Closer, There are Now 73 Israeli Bases in Azerbaijan Aimed at Iran backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 23, 2024 - Toby Miller | Eleanor Cooney | Frederick Clarkson
May 23, 2024 21:40 - 58 minutes - 80.7 MBRight Wing Leaders Gathered in Madrid to Declare War on Socialism | Republicans Are Dusting Off the 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills and Even Birth Control Pills | Justice Alito's display of Christo-Fascist Allegiance backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 22, 2024 - Samuel Moyn | Jacob Heilbrunn | Joshua Douglas
May 22, 2024 19:29 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBNorway, Spain and Ireland Recognize a Palestinian State as the ICC is Poised to Issue Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and 3 Hamas Leaders | The Leading Candidates For Top Positions in a Possible Trump Second Term | How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Elections as the GOP Cheats Rather Than Competes backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 21, 2024 - Daniel Benjamin | David Ignatius
May 21, 2024 19:25 - 53 minutes - 74.2 MBFinally we are Learning More About Saudi State Involvement Behind the 9/11 Attacks | An Investigation Into What Sadly Appears to be the Next Frontier of Warfare, Space backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 20, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Jacob Silverman | Terry O'Rourke
May 20, 2024 19:34 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MBDoes the Death of Iran's President Open a Path for the Son of Ayatollah Khamenei to Succeed His Ailing Father? | Netanyahu Has Biden Torn Between Supporting Israel and Not Losing the Youth Vote | The Unholy Trinity of Far-Right Texas Leadership; Abbott, Patrick and Paxton backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 18, 2024 - Caroline Fredrickson | Matt Angle | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
May 19, 2024 15:21 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBThe Insurrectionists on the Supreme Court Exposed | The Texas Governor Frees a Racist Killer to Please Tucker Carlson | Have Criminals Taken Over Mexico's Elections? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 19, 2024 - Caroline Fredrickson | Matt Angle | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
May 19, 2024 15:21 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBThe Insurrectionists on the Supreme Court Exposed | The Texas Governor Frees a Racist Killer to Please Tucker Carlson | Have Criminals Taken Over Mexico's Elections? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 16, 2024 - Orville Schell | Kim Lane Scheppele | James Zirin
May 16, 2024 21:08 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBThe Murky Ties to the Poet and Would-be Assassin of Slovakia's PM Robert Fico | At their 40th Meeting, Xi and Putin Pledge to Deepen Defense and Military Ties | Trump's Lawyer Attacks Michael Cohen as a Liar Even Though Trump's Fixer Lied in the Service of the Liar-in-Chief backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 15, 2024 - Corey Brettschneider | Simon Shuster | Austin Frerick
May 15, 2024 20:29 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBThe Party of Law and Order Now Embraces Lawlessness as the GOP Speaker Trashes the Rule of Law to Please the Scofflaw-in-Chief | The Setbacks the Ukrainian Military is Suffering as a Result of Trump's 6 Month Delay of U.S. Arms and Ammunition | What is Behind the Rise in Food Prices as a Few Monopolies Gouge the Public and Farmers While Protected by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 14, 2024 - Amanda Marcotte | Joe Lowndes | Spencer Sunshine
May 14, 2024 21:08 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBMike Johnson Personifies the Staggering Hypocrisy of the "Christian" Right | Is the New York Trial Hurting Trump Who is Polling Ahead in all Swing States But Wisconsin? | The Mainstreaming of America's Neo-Nazi Movement and the Potential for Violence in the Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 13, 2024 - Adele Stan | Lincoln Mitchell | John Branstetter
May 13, 2024 21:55 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBIn Paying Off A Porn Star For Her Silence Trump Tells Cohen to "Just do it!" | Georgia's Billionaire-Owned Government Passes a Kremlin-Style Law Although the Vast Majority Want to Join the EU | Neo-Nazis, Christian Nationalists and Proud Boys Were in the Pro-Israel Mob at UCLA Claiming to Fight Antisemitism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 12, 2024 - Joshua Shifrinson | Luke Goldstein
May 12, 2024 17:04 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBAs Ukraine Faces a Long War, Will the US and NATO be There and Is There Any Hope of a Peace Deal? | The FTC Goes After Corporate Greed and AIPAC Goes After a January 6 Hero backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 9, 2024 - Gideon Levy | Jennifer Taub | Mike Lofgren
May 09, 2024 21:44 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MBThe Israeli Public's Support for Continuing the War and Netanyahu's Defiant Response to Biden | Trump's Wildly Inflated Ego Takes a Beating as Stormy Daniels Belittles Trump's Sexual Prowess | Will the Slapdown 359 to 43 Vote Deter "Moscow Marge" From Fomenting Further Chaos in the House? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 8, 20224 - Michael Greenberger | Azamat Junisbai | Henry Giroux
May 08, 2024 21:51 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBTrump's Delaying Tactic is Working as 3 of the 4 Trials He's Facing Will Likely Not be Heard Before the Election | Following His 5th Inauguration, Putin Is Now Called "Imperator", the Formal Title For the Russian Tsars | Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
May 7, 2024 - Leila Hilal | Oona Hathaway | Casey Michel
May 07, 2024 20:46 - 1 hour - 140 MBIsrael Joins Peace Talks in Cairo Amid IDF Escalation in Gaza | Strengthening the Laws of War as Non-combatants Die in Gaza and Ukraine | Brazen Examples of Foreign Governments Buying US Senators and Congressmen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 6, 2024 - Dr. Guy Ziv | Jeremi Suri | Eugene Rumer
May 06, 2024 22:21 - 1 hour - 138 MBThe Gaza Impasses With Hamas Wanting a Permanent Ceasefire and Israel a Temporary One | A Possible Change in the US's Israel/Palestinian Policy as Grassroots and Student Protests Ended Support For South Africa's Apartheid Regime | Russia Announces Drills For the Use of Tactical Nukes Ahead of Putin's Inauguration Tomorrow backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 5, 2024 - John Nichols | Harold Meyerson | Brian Levin
May 05, 2024 17:40 - 1 hour - 145 MBThe House Speaker Uses an Antisemitic Trope Blaming George Soros as he Launches Hearings on Anti Semitism on Campuses | The Role of Right Wing, Christian Zionist and MAGA Provocateurs in Campus Violence | Models of Dialogue and Deescalation as Outside Opportunists Stoke Violence on Campuses backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 2, 2024 - Paul Pillar | David Pozen | Cat Packer
May 02, 2024 19:33 - 1 hour - 141 MBOn the Brink of the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza as Ceasefire Talks Are Deadlocked | The DEA's Decriminalization of Marijuana as Too Little Too Late | Could a Change in DEA Policy Revive California's Troubled Marijuana Industry? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
May 1, 2024 - Ananya Roy | Aziz Rana
May 01, 2024 20:08 - 58 minutes - 80 MBA Pro-Israel Mob Invades the UCLA Campus to Beat up Pro-Palestinian Students While the Police Look On | Assessing the Flaws and Exploring the Fixes to a Constitution That is Failing Americans As Fascism Threatens Our Democracy Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green
April 30, 2024 - Wendy Pearlman | Timothy Ryback
April 30, 2024 20:35 - 58 minutes - 81.2 MBAs Campus Protests Intensify and Spread, Northwestern University Serves as a Model For Deescalation | The Disturbingly Accurate Analogies Between Hitler's Rise to Power and Trump's Threat to Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
April 29, 2024 - Raz Segal | Dennis Aftergut | Sumit Ganguly
April 29, 2024 20:38 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBThe Weaponization of Anti Semitism Against Students Protesting on American Campuses | The Strength of the Only Trial That May End Up Holding Trump to Account Before the Election | Elections Underway in the World's Largest Democracy and the Dark Side Modi's India backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
April 28, 2024 - Lara Friedman | Leah Litman | Allan Lichtman
April 28, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 84 MBThe House and Senate Moves to Strip Non-Profit Status From Foundations That Support Palestinian Causes | The Damage the Supreme Court is Doing to the Rule of Law by Making Trump Above the Law | Biden's Reelection Chances According to a Prediction System That Has Got Every Presidential Election Right Since 1984 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
April 25, 2024 - Aziz Huq | Aynne Kokas | David Austin Walsh
April 25, 2024 19:16 - 59 minutes - 82.2 MBMore Special Treatment of Trump by the Supreme Court | Implications of Biden's TikTok Ban | The Enduring Relationship Between the Far-Right and Conservative Movements of "Responsible" and "Respectable" Republicans backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
April 24, 2024 - George Beebe | Dr. Rob Davidson | Ari Berman
April 24, 2024 20:55 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBSupreme Court Anti-Abortion Ideologues Threaten Access to Emergency Care | The Search For Diplomatic Openings as the War in Ukraine Escalates | Trump's Republican Party Makes it Clear the GOP Would Rather Cheat Than Compete Host: Ian Masters Producer: Graham FitzGibbon Assistant Producer: Evan Green