Background Briefing with Ian Masters
1,575 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 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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March 10, 2021 - Brendan Fischer | Peniel Joseph | Paul Glastris
March 10, 2021 23:13 - 82 MBTrump Owns the GOP But Now Wants to Turn it Into his Personal Piggy Bank | States Turn Back the Clock to Stop Blacks and Progressive Whites From Voting | How Biden Might Sell the Stimulus in Thursday's Address to the Nation backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 9, 2021 - Alam Abramowitz | Osita Nwanevu | James Green
March 09, 2021 22:52 - 80.5 MBVoter Suppression Laws in Georgia May Create a Bigger Backlash Against the GOP Than the Gains From Their Rigging | The Fight For the $15 Minimum Wage Continues | Brazil's Lula is Cleared for 2022 Presidential Race Against Bolsonaro backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 8, 2021 - Gregory Wawro | James Galbraith | Toby Miller
March 08, 2021 23:53 - 82.9 MBModerate Democratic Senators Now Consider Getting Rid of the Filibuster | A Leading Economist Assesses the $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan | Harry and Meghan Use the Tabloids That Have Been Used Against Them backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 7, 2021 - Tom Nichols | Adrienne Pine | Mark Osler
March 07, 2021 20:35 - 89.7 MBThe GOP is Going the Way of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Biden Should Deal With the Source of the Problems at the Border, Starting With the Corrupt Regime in Honduras | Could The Derek Chauvin Trial End With an Eruption Like the Rodney King Verdict? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 4, 2021 - Nicole Hemmer | Mark Perry | Matthew Rothschild
March 05, 2021 00:45 - 84.3 MB"How the Party of Lincoln Has Become the Party of Alex Jones" | Christopher Miller and Ryan McCarthy Must Explain Why The Pentagon Waited Over Three Hours to Rescue the Capitol | How One Crackpot Conspiracist is Holding Up Help For Millions of Americans backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 3, 2021 - Leonard Zeskind | Frank Bowman | Chuck Collins
March 03, 2021 23:13 - 92.3 MBTime to Join the Fight Against the Party of White Supremacy's Attempt to Rewrite History | A Former Colleague of Senator Hawley's on Whether the FBI is Investigating Hawley's Ties to the Insurrection | Going After Billionaires Who Pay Millions to Hide Trillions backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 2, 2021 - Christina Giogio | Trevor Sutton | Gayle Lemmon
March 02, 2021 22:30 - 80.9 MBThe "Christian" GOP Celebrates a Sexual Harasser While the Democrats Show Cuomo the Door | A Plan to Save Democracies From Kleptocracies by Going After Dirty Money | The Brave and Inspiring Kurdish Women Warriors Who Fought ISIS backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 1, 2021 - Ben Jacobs | David Weigel | Rob Wallace
March 02, 2021 01:24 - 87.9 MBTrump Makes It Clear He IS the Republican Party and It's Kingmaker | Trump Outlines Voter Suppression Plans at CPAC | Rob Wallace on the Origins of Covid-19 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 28, 2021 - Dr. Allen Frances | Steven Greenhouse | James Henry
February 28, 2021 20:09 - 81.6 MBTrump's GOP Weaponizes the Big Lie of "Stop the Steal" to Steal the Next Elections | What is Wrong With Paying Workers a Living Wage? | Could the Revelations in Trump's Tax Documents Land Him in Jail? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 25, 2021 - Vanessa Wills | Sarah Leah Whitson | Adam Jentleson
February 26, 2021 01:09 - 86 MBWhile Holding the Mob Accountable For Storming the Capitol, We Cannot Police Our Way Out of Authoritarianism | No Report from the DNI Because Biden Can't Get the Saudi King on the Phone | A Senate Insider on How Nothing Will Get Done Unless the Democrats Get Rid of the Filibuster backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 24, 2021 - Adele Stan | Persis Yu | Justin Scheck
February 25, 2021 00:46 - 96.3 MBFurther Investigations of the Capitol Riot Could Involve Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon | Relief For the 45 Million Americans Drowning Under $1.7 Trillion in Student Loan Debt | More Evidence About to Emerge On MbS's Role in the Murder of Khashoggi backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 23, 2021 - Angela Rasmusen | Joaquin Sapien | Mike Konczal
February 24, 2021 00:34 - 89 MBAmerica's Deadly Milestone of 500,000 Preventable Deaths Had We Not Had Such a Sick and Stupid Leader | Capitol Cops on the Failures of Their Chiefs and Sergeants-at-Arms | Rediscovering America's Tradition of Taming Markets to Advance Freedom backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 22, 2021 - Edward McCaffery | Michael Klarman | Mansour Farhang
February 23, 2021 00:19 - 81.4 MBSCOTUS Finally Releases Trump's Taxes to the Manhattan DA | If the Democrats Don't Go Bold the GOP Will Control the Senate and Courts Into the Future | Iran Takes an American Hostage as Blinken Endorses the Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State to State Relations backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 21, 2021 - Paul Wood | Robert Johnson | Ioan Grillo
February 21, 2021 20:11 - 88.2 MBTrump's Save America PAC in the Real Steal as he Fleeces His Followers Out of $500 million | Can Principled Conservative and Democrats Work Around Trump's GOP? | The River of Guns From the U.S. to Mexico and From Red States Into Inner Cities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 18, 2021 - Harry Litman | Frank Clemente | Kathryn Stoner Stoner
February 19, 2021 01:17 - 85.2 MBWhy Is the Supreme Court Sitting on Trump's Tax Returns? | Bills to Have the IRS Audit Rich Tax Cheats Would Raise $600 Billion a Year | How Putin Has Brought Russia Back and is Reshaping the International Order backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 17, 2021 - Forrest Wilder | Daniel Byman | Michael Gerhardt
February 18, 2021 00:12 - 80.9 MBTexas's Political Leaders and Fox News Blame AOC and the Green New Deal for the Frozen Electricity Grid | A Commission to Find the "Facts and Causes" of the Insurrection and Storming of the Capitol | A Witness in the First Impeachment and Special Counsel in the Second on Trump's Legal Landscape Ahead backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 16, 2021 - Ari Berman | Amy Myers Jaffe | Ali al-Ahmed
February 17, 2021 00:48 - 83.4 MBThe Democrats Will Get Nowhere Unless They End the Filibuster | Climate Change Deniers in Charge of Texas Grapple With a Frozen Electricity Grid | With Biden Isolating MbS, Will the Saudi Royals Come Up With More Acceptable Leadership? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 15, 2021 - Lawrence Douglas | Michael Beer | Alexander Cooley
February 15, 2021 23:52 - 88 MBAfter Exonerating Trump, the GOP Targets Republican Senators Who Voted to Convict Him | The Backlash Against the Military Coup From Brave Citizens in Myanmar | America's Waning Dominance and the Rise of Kleptocracy, Illiberalism and China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 14, 2021 - Sarah Churchwell | Michael Li | Arthur Caplan
February 14, 2021 19:55 - 89.3 MBRepublican Senators Who Acquitted Trump For a Second Time Will Live in Infamy | If Republicans Win a Future Election It's OK, But if Democrats Do It's Rigged | Employers Should be Able to Mandate Covid Vaccines backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 11, 2021 - Garrett Epps | Geoffrey Kabaservice | Nicole Perlroth
February 12, 2021 00:56 - 91.9 MBCould Jamie Raskin's Closing Argument Move Enough Republicans to Avoid Their Eternal Shame in History? | The Consequences For the GOP in Exonerating Trump | The Cyberweapons Arms Race and a New Kind of Global Warfare backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 10, 2021 - Caroline Fredrickson | Tom LoBianco | Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
February 11, 2021 01:13 - 93.7 MBHistory Will Condemn Senators Who Turn a Blind Eye to Trump's Monstrous Crimes | A Biographer of Mike Pence on Our Homeless and Silent Ex VP | What Happens When Anti-Government Libertarians Take Over a Town's Government backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 9, 2021 - Kimberly Wehle | Jim Small | Richard Kreitner
February 10, 2021 00:16 - 94.1 MBWill Witnesses Who Could Seal Trump's Fate Testify? | The GOP's Authoritarian Moves to Recount the Election in Arizona | Secession Movements Are on the Rise and Break Ups Could Happen Soon backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 8, 2021 - Sidney Blumenthal | Asawin Suebsaeng | Sarah Jaffe
February 09, 2021 00:32 - 91.4 MBWill Mike Pence Confront the Man He Slavishly Served Who Tried to Have Him Killed? | Trump's Dead-Enders Are Now Getting Sued and Losing Business | Investing Love and Solidarity, Not in Jobs But in Each Other backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 7, 2021 - Paul Pillar | Larry Tye | Sumit Ganguly
February 07, 2021 18:56 - 81.6 MBBiden Cuts Off Trump's Intelligence Briefings as it Becomes Clear Trump Was Behind the Storming of the Capitol | The Uncanny Similarities Between Trump and Senator Joe McCarthy | Protests by India's Farmers as Modi Cracks Down on the Press backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 4, 2021 - Charles Kupchan | Jesse Walker | Henry Giroux
February 05, 2021 01:29 - 86.5 MBBiden Outlines His Foreign Policy at a Decimated State Department | The GOP Defends a Dangerous Ignoramus to Pander to Its Base | At the Heart of All the Crises We Face, Is Our Crisis in Education backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 3, 2021 - Jennifer Taub | Chris Whipple | Michael Mann
February 04, 2021 00:12 - 92.4 MBThe Democratic House Managers' Impeachment Brief | The Axios Report Inside the Craziest Meeting in the Trump Presidency | Polluters Try to Blame Climate Change on Personal Responsibility Not the Fossil Fuel Industry backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 2, 2021 - Craig Unger | Lloyd Green
February 02, 2021 23:49 - 80.2 MBTrump Exposed as a Traitor and His Pal Epstein as a Blackmailer | The Lunatics May be Taking Over, But the GOP Could Still Win the Next Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 2, 2021 - Paul Blumenthal | Jack Blum | David Steinberg
February 01, 2021 23:19 - 85.1 MBFixing American Democracy as the Democrat's First Order of Business | Trump's New Lawyers Have Less Than 48 Hours to Prepare Briefs | Military Junta Arrests Myanmar's Elected Leader Whose Reputation is Tainted backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 31, 2021 - Wendy Brown | Alfred McCoy | Jody Freeman
January 31, 2021 20:19 - 86.9 MBThe Enemy Within the House of Representatives | The Spectacular Fall of U.S. Power and Influence Around the World | Biden's Bold Climate Initiatives as a Win-Win, Creating Jobs While Saving the Planet backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 28, 2021 - Anna Merlan | Jacob Silverman | Luke Tonachel
January 29, 2021 00:37 - 84.8 MBCensuring or Removing the QAnon Congresswoman the Republicans Placed on the Education Committee | An Army of Small-Time Speculators at War With Wall Street Hedge Funds | Biden and Car-Makers Want All-Electric Vehicles by 2035 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 27, 2021 - Elizabeth Neumann | William Cohan | Shireen Al-Adeimi
January 27, 2021 23:05 - 82 MBAs Republicans Try to Stop the Impeachment Trial, Will Democrats Wimp Out With a Censure of Trump? | Elite Impunity: Why Did Wall Street Titans Pay Epstein So Much Money? | Biden Freezes Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 26, 2021 - Alexey Kovalev | Corey Brettschneider | Mark Feldstein
January 27, 2021 00:10 - 82.8 MBPutin's Dilemma: A Dead Navalny Means More Demonstrations While a Live Navalny Leads the Opposition | Today's 55 to 45 Senate Vote Shows it is Unlikely Republicans Will Convict Trump | Murdoch Doubles-Down on Right-Wing Ranting as Fox Loses Viewers backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 25, 2021 - Michael D'Antonio | Tamara Fucile | Ryan Devereaux
January 25, 2021 23:57 - 81 MBThe Storming of the Capitol as the Culmination of Generation of Far-Right Extremism | Has the Law Finally Caught Up With Trump? | The Future of Biden's $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 24, 2021 - Ryan Cooper | Lisa Graves | Lincoln Mitchell
January 24, 2021 19:51 - 79.6 MBMcConnell is Already Trying to Strangle the Biden Presidency | Trump's Attempted Coup at the Department of Justice | Was Trump Much More Hands-on in Planning and Executing the Capitol Coup Attempt? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 21, 2021 - Lawrence Gostin | Samuel Moyn | Jared Holt
January 21, 2021 23:47 - 83.3 MBBiden Rejoins the WHO and Joins the Fight Against Covid as Mutations Race Against Vaccinations | How Biden Will Navigate a New Political Landscape Reshaped by Trump | Fox Moves to the Right and the Collapse of QAnon backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 20, 2021 - Sean Wilentz | David Schanzer | Mark Galeotti
January 20, 2021 22:55 - 81.9 MBBiden's Inauguration and His Call For Unity and Civility | Will Dealing With Domestic Terrorism Be a Priority in the Biden Administration? | The Arrest of Navalny and His Expose of Putin's $1.4 billion "Palace" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 19, 2021 - Karen Hult | Harry Litman | Suzanne Schneider
January 20, 2021 00:19 - 81.8 MBWill Biden's Ambitious Agenda be Sidetracked by Trump's Impeachment Trial? | The Sleaze Surrounding Who Gets on Trump's Pardon List | The Performative Violence of the Insurrectionists Without a Political Program backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 18, 2021 - Anthea Butler | Bree Carlson | Andra Gillespie
January 18, 2021 20:40 - 79.7 MBThe Role of Apocalyptic Evangelicalism and Religious Nationalism in the Storming of the Capitol | Political Organizing in the Footsteps of MLK | MLK's Successor the Reverend Warnock and the Lessons From the Georgia Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 17, 2021 - Michael Greenberger | Quinn Slobodian | Sheila Krumholz
January 17, 2021 18:52 - 134 MBMounting Evidence the Attack on the Capitol Was an Inside Job | The Merging of the Left and Right in Conspiracy and Alienation | Right Wing Funding of Politicians Who Championed Insurrection backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 14, 2021 - Mike Lofgren | Eric Levitz | Annie Jacobsen
January 14, 2021 23:31 - 82.9 MBIs the Toxic Trump GOP Now a Captive of the Lunatic Fringe? | Polls Indicate 40% of Americans Still Think Trump is Doing a Good Job | Could the World's Most Powerful Biometric Database Be Used Against the American People? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 13, 2021 - Michael Gerhardt | Jeremi Suri | Tim Naftali
January 14, 2021 00:56 - 77.8 MB10 Republicans Joined Democrats in a 232 to 197 House Vote to Impeach Trump | The Sudden and Spectacular Fall of Donald Trump | De-radicalizing the Republican Party backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 12, 2021 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Mike German | Steven Mulroy
January 13, 2021 00:20 - 87 MBCorporate America Cuts Ties With an Increasingly Isolated Trump | How Much Has Law Enforcement, the Military and the Secret Service Been Infiltrated by Trump Sympathizers? | A Resolution to Abolish the Electoral College backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 11, 2021 - Jason Stanley | Julian Zelizer | Robert Kuttner
January 12, 2021 00:21 - 82.3 MBGOP "Gamers" (McConnell) Flirt with Fascism While Their "Breakers" (Hawley and Cruz) Embrace it | Pelosi's Deadline to Pence on the 25th Amendment or a Second Impeachment | Will the Democratic Party Learn From Grassroots Success in Arizona and Georgia? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 11, 2020 - Jason Stanley | Julian Zelizer | Robert Kuttner
January 12, 2021 00:21 - 82.3 MBGOP "Gamers" (McConnell) Flirt with Fascism While Their "Breakers" (Hawley and Cruz) Embrace it | Pelosi's Deadline to Pence on the 25th Amendment or a Second Impeachment | Will the Democratic Party Learn From Grassroots Success in Arizona and Georgia? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 10, 2021 - Norman Ornstein | Thomas Mockhaitus | Jennifer Golbeck
January 10, 2021 19:29 - 137 MBWill a Second Impeachment Get Trump to Resign With A Pardon From Pence? | Domestic Terrorism and the Reactions of America's Allies | Cutting Trump Off From Social Media and Protecting Biden's Inauguration backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 10, 2021 - Norman Ornstein | Thomas Mockhaitus | Jennifer Gelbach
January 10, 2021 19:29 - 137 MBWill a Second Impeachment Get Trump to Resign With A Pardon From Pence? | Domestic Terrorism and the Reactions of America's Allies | Cutting Trump Off From Social Media and Protecting Biden's Inauguration backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 10, 2021 - Norman Ornstein | Thomas Mockhaitis | Jennifer Golbeck
January 10, 2021 19:29 - 137 MBWill a Second Impeachment Get Trump to Resign With A Pardon From Pence? | Domestic Terrorism and the Reactions of America's Allies | Cutting Trump Off From Social Media and Protecting Biden's Inauguration backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 10, 2021 - Norman Ornstein | Thomas Mockaitis | Jennifer Golbeck
January 10, 2021 19:29 - 137 MBWill a Second Impeachment Get Trump to Resign With A Pardon From Pence? | Domestic Terrorism and the Reactions of America's Allies | Cutting Trump Off From Social Media and Protecting Biden's Inauguration backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 7, 2020 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson | Jan Schakowsky | David Rothkopf
January 07, 2021 23:28 - 83 MBSerious Discussions Underway to Invoke the 25th Amendment | A Congresswoman on Being Hunkered Down with a Rampaging Mob Outside | Yesterday Was a Coup Attempt Deliberately Instigated by Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 7, 2021 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson | Jan Schakowsky | David Rothkopf
January 07, 2021 23:28 - 83 MBSerious Discussions Underway to Invoke the 25th Amendment | A Congresswoman on Being Hunkered Down with a Rampaging Mob Outside | Yesterday Was a Coup Attempt Deliberately Instigated by Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia