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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Episodes
January 6, 2021 - Will Sommer | Robert Creamer | James Thurber
January 07, 2021 00:33 - 81.1 MBA Reporter on the Ground Who Covered Today's Storming of the Capitol | Banana Republic Politics on Display in Washington Today | Can Biden Restore Enough Bi-partisanship For Our Government to Function? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 6, 2020 - Will Sommer | Robert Creamer | James Thurber
January 07, 2021 00:33 - 81.1 MBA Reporter on the Ground Who Covered Today's Storming of the Capitol | Banana Republic Politics on Display in Washington Today | Can Biden Restore Enough Bi-partisanship For Our Government to Function? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 5, 2020 - Jeffrey Lazarus | David Dayen | Bryan Fogel
January 05, 2021 23:58 - 81.5 MBAn Update From Georgia on Today's Critical Elections | Operation Warp Speed Delivered Vaccines But Not Vaccinations | The Maker of the Documentary on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi, "The Dissident" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 4, 2020 - David Cay Johnston | Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Mark Perry
January 04, 2021 23:26 - 87.3 MBTrump's Shakedown of Georgia's Election Officials Offer a Glimpse of the Mob Boss in the Oval Office | The Bunker Mentality of an Increasingly Desperate and Delusional Trump | What is Behind the Warnings Issued by All 10 Living Secretaries of Defense? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 3, 2020 - Frank Bowman | Jon Cohen | Stephen Walt
January 03, 2021 21:00 - 90.2 MB12 Republican Senators and 140 House Members Debase Themselves in an Un-American Putsch | Limited Supply and Urgent Need in the Botched Distribution of Vaccines | Will the Fortunate Circumstances That Led To America's Rise Last Much Longer? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 31, 2020 - Patrick Blanchfield | Sarah Churchwell | Cynthia Miller-Idriss
December 31, 2020 21:47 - 82.6 MBTrump is Using Guns As An Instrument of Political Intimidation | The Deep Roots of Fascism in America | The Mainstreaming of White Nationalism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 30, 2020 - Bree Carlson | Robert Evans | Stuart Schrader
December 30, 2020 21:28 - 88.6 MBA Look Back at the Movement Against Racial Injustice and Police Brutality in 2020 - Will This Nationwide Uprising Bring About Racial Justice and Economic Equality? | Citizens of Portland Continue Their Stand Against Brutal Police Now Aided by Trump’s Stormtroopers | How the Dirty Wars We Exported Are Coming Home in Portland backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 29, 2020 - Richard Flanagan | David Wallace-Wells | Naomi Oreskes
December 29, 2020 21:48 - 91.5 MBA Look Back at the Impact of Global Warming in 2020 - Australia as the Chernobyl of the Climate Crisis | As the West Burns, 9 Times More CO2 Enters the Atmosphere Than All the Reductions From California’s Green Initiatives | With the West of Fire, Trump Puts a Global Warming Denier in Charge of the Weather backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 28, 2020 - Rob Wallace | Greg Grandin | Dr. Ian Lipkin
December 28, 2020 21:47 - 83.9 MBThe Origins of the Covid-19 Virus | The Pandemic as the Fourth Turning Point After 9/11, the 2008 Crash and Climate Change | We Need Dr. Fauci More Than Ever as Trump Embraces Quackery backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 27, 2020 - Allan Lichtman | Lisa Graves | Scott Horton
December 27, 2020 20:53 - 84.2 MBTrump's Delicate Ego has America Suffering as he Sulks and Settles Scores | The Lasting Legacy of Trump and McConnell's Stacking of the Courts | The Q-Anon and 5G Connection to the Nashville Bombing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 24, 2020 - Gloria Steinem | Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox | Nancy MacLean
December 24, 2020 22:09 - 138 MBGloria Steinem on Her Friend, Hero and Guide Ruth Bader Ginsburg | A Former Catholic Theologian's Open Letter to Amy Coney Barrett | Could a Reactionary Majority on the Supreme Court Take America Back to the Gilded Age? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 23, 2020 - Sarah Chayes | Oliver Bullough | Tom Burgis
December 23, 2020 20:27 - 94.2 MBA Look Back at Corruption in 2020 - Have We Become a Family-Run Banana Republic? | We Should Blame Politicians Who Accept Dirty Money More Than the Kleptocrats Who Bribe Them | An FT Investigative Journalist on His New Book, Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 21, 2020 - Sylvia Allegretto | Robert Johnson | Tamara Fucile
December 22, 2020 00:54 - 82 MBThe Semi-Stimulus and Widening Income Inequality | Will McConnell Give Biden the Same Treatment He Gave Obama? | Many Immediate Needs Met But Long Term Help is Uncertain backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 20, 2020 - Sean Lyngaas | Malcolm Nance | Terry O'Rourke
December 20, 2020 20:55 - 79.3 MBTrump Dismisses the Russian Hack as Fake News and Blames China Not Russia | Q-Anon is Among Putin's Many "Active Measures" Campaigns Against the U.S. | There is a Lot More to the Bizarre Vigilante Incident in Houston backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 17, 2020 - James Thurber | John Nichols | Zach Despart
December 18, 2020 00:37 - 83.2 MBRepublican Grinches Haggle Over a Paltry Stimulus While America is in Crisis | We Should be Throwing Money at the Problem Which Will Get Worse and Require More | Holding an A/C Repairman at Gunpoint to Uncover Imaginary Election Fraud backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 16, 2020 - Alan Paller | Fred Kaplan | Michael Gorham
December 17, 2020 00:39 - 87.4 MBWhy the U.S. is Vulnerable to Cyber and Ransomware Attacks | Trumpsters Lie About a Hack That Did Not Happen While Ignoring the Russian Hack | The Russian Dissident Who Putin Tried to Kill Strikes Back With a Brilliant Video backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 15, 2020 - William Yeomans | Austin Sarat | Robert Hockett
December 16, 2020 00:47 - 93.6 MBBarr's Firing Means Trump's Toady Rosen Will Booby Trap DOJ to Harass Biden | Trump's Assembly Line of Death in His Lame Duck Killing Spree | How the Green New Deal Will Revive the Economy and Save the Planet backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 14, 2020 - Akhil Amar | Dr. Michael McDonald | Julia Lynch
December 14, 2020 23:53 - 82.7 MBWill Trump Give up the Election Contestation Grift of Donations That Go Into his Pocket? | What Today's Early Voting in Georgia Reveals | After Unequal Covid Treatment, Will the Vaccine be Fairly Distributed? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 13, 2020 - Daniel Ziblatt | Matt Stoller | Getachew Begashaw
December 13, 2020 21:13 - 76.9 MBThe GOP's Anti-Democratic Suicide Pact With Trump | The FTC and 46 States Sue to Break Up Facebook | The Civil War in Ethiopia to Which the Press is Denied Access backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 10, 2020 - James Moore | Adam Klasfeld | Michael Sandel
December 11, 2020 00:48 - 97.3 MBThe GOP's Authoritarian Move From Voter Suppression to Outright Voter Theft | An Investigation Into a Bailout by Qatar of Jared Kushner's Bad Investment | Healing the Wounds of Those Who Feel the Democratic Party Abandoned Them backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 9, 2020 - Sarah Leah Whitson & Michael Eisner | Bandy Lee
December 09, 2020 23:26 - 80.9 MBThe UAE Arms Deal Changes the Subject From the Arab-Israeli Conflict to the Arab-Iranian Conflict | A Forensic Psychiatrist on Our Abuser as Head of State Who Made the American People his Victims backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 8, 2020 - Lawrence Douglas | Col. Don Christensen | Kristin Kobes Du Mez
December 09, 2020 00:09 - 84.9 MBOn Safe Harbor Day More Deranged Lawsuits From Trumpsters | The Removal of 14 Army Leaders at Fort Hood as 20,000 Sexual Assaults in 2019 Resulted in 138 Military Convictions | Evangelical Masculinity and the Need For Strongmen Like Trump to Defend "Christian America" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 7, 2020 - Dean Baker | Lauren Windsor | John Judis
December 07, 2020 23:09 - 84.5 MBThe Battle Between the Haves and the Have-Nots Over Who Gets the Vaccine at an Affordable Price | The Journalist Who Asked Giuliani Whether He Is a Crook | Socialism's Contribution to American Justice and Equity and the Socialist Awakening Underway backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 6, 2020 - Alan Abramowitz | John Barry | Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
December 06, 2020 20:09 - 79.4 MBTrump's Mixed Message to Georgia Voters | The Covid Death Toll Inches Toward the 1918-1919 Pandemic Death Toll | Authors of the New and Timely Book, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 3, 2020 - Dr. Amesh Adalja | Dr. Dawn Garzon | Jacob Hacker
December 04, 2020 00:21 - 80.9 MBRecord-Breaking Grim Statistics of an Out-of-Control Pandemic | The Key Link in Our Defense Are Nurses on the Front Line of a Losing Battle | Plutocratic Populism Now Rules the GOP and With Trump Gone, American Democracy is Still Sick backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 2, 2020 - Jennifer Taub | David Adler | Thomas Frank
December 03, 2020 00:26 - 86.9 MBThe Erupting White House Bribery-for-Pardons Scandal | An Organizer of the "Make Amazon Pay" Campaign | Thomas Frank on His New Book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
December 1, 2020 - Lance Dodes | Steven Hassan
December 01, 2020 23:35 - 84.8 MBBreaking the Ties That Bind Trump's Base to His Delusions | Why Trump's Followers Believe His Lies and How to Break His Cult-like Spell backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 30, 2020 - Stephanie Kelton | Wendy Orent | David Halperin
November 30, 2020 23:52 - 85.8 MBAssessing Biden's Economic Team and the Challenges They Face | Killing Minks Won't End the Danger of Factory Farms | Who Will Clean Up the Wreckage Left By Betsy DeVos? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 29, 2020 - David Hearst | Mohsen Sazegara | Jeffrey Lazarus
November 29, 2020 19:50 - 89.6 MBThe Pompeo, MbS, Netanyahu Secret Meeting That Led to the Hit on the Iranian Nuclear Scientist | A Founder of the IRGC on Israel's Fear Iran is Three Months Away From the Bomb | Can Trump Undo His Rhetorical Damage to Get Out the Georgia Vote in an Election He's Called Rigged? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 26, 2020 - Jaynie Parrish | Stephan Schwartz | Rev. Billy
November 26, 2020 19:32 - 85 MBA Native American Perspective on Thanksgiving | What We Can Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving | The Reverend Billy on the Sin of Shopping backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 25, 2020 - Wendy Weiser | Laren Bauer | Jacob Silverman
November 25, 2020 21:25 - 87.8 MBThe Supreme Court's Radical View of Election Law and Rollback of Voting Rights | Hunger Among America's Children at Thanksgiving | With Pompeo as the Global Arsonist, Can Biden Put Out the Fires? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 24, 2020 - Jody Freeman | Kingston Reif | Matthew Rojansky
November 25, 2020 00:14 - 83.5 MBBiden's Signal that Climate Change is a National Security Issue | Is the Pullout From the Open Skies Treaty Trump's Parting Gift to Putin? | Could Biden Set a New Course With Russia? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 23, 2020 - Rachel Kleinfeld | David Rothkopf | Robert Hockett
November 24, 2020 00:10 - 83.4 MBAs Trump Tears the Country Apart, Republicans Prefer Partisan Warfare to Patriotic Cooperation | An Assessment of Biden's New National Security Team | Janet Yellen as Biden's Likely Secretary of The Treasury backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 22, 2020 - Paul Waldman | Justin Scheck | Chris Masters
November 22, 2020 19:34 - 86.8 MBTrump's Attempted Murder of American Democracy | The Host of the G-20's Heavy-Handed Rule and Boundless Greed | The Australian Journalist Who Broke the Story of War Heroes as War Criminals backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 19, 2020 - Brian Kalt | Juan Cole | Jennifer Kavanagh
November 19, 2020 22:25 - 81.7 MBTrump is Trying to Steal the Election in Plain Sight | The Consequences of a Strike on Iran Trump Requested | How to Stop "Truth Decay" and Build a Reality-Based Community in Post-Truth America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 18, 2020 - Sean Lyngaas | Dr. Iahn Gonsenhauser | Tamara Loos
November 18, 2020 22:54 - 85.7 MBTrump's Petty Vengeance Against CISA Head Risks Hospitals Getting Ransomware Attacks | Survey Finds 40% of Americans Not Taking Precautions at Thanksgiving Gatherings | Turmoil In Thailand As Subjects Question the King's Excesses and Entitlement backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 17, 2020 - Eric Segall | Christine Fair | William Gould
November 17, 2020 23:30 - 87.4 MBSenator Graham's Election Meddling and the Democrats Chances in Georgia's Run-off Elections | A Vindictive Trump Exits From Afghanistan and Threatens to Bomb Iran to Hurt Biden | Stanford University's Weak Rebuke of the Hoover Institution's Scott Atlas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 16, 2020 - Katherine Stewart | Benjamin Carter Hett | Robert Alexander
November 16, 2020 23:54 - 85.6 MBTrump's Religious Right Supporters Lost the White House But Plan to Win the War | In the Bunker Spouting the Big Lie as Trump's Goebbles Rupert Murdoch Spreads Dangerous Delusions | Pressure Underway to Have "Faithless" Electors Vote for the Loser backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 15, 2020 - Amanda Marcotte | Ivo Daalder | Mike Lux
November 15, 2020 20:25 - 131 MBThe Much Less Than A Million MAGA March | America's Unnecessarily Long Transition | Post-election Recriminations Among House Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 12, 2020 - Evan Osnos | Dr. Stanley Perlman | Mark Hayward
November 13, 2020 00:00 - 81.6 MBThe New Yorker's Evan Osnos Profiles Joe Biden | Americans Will Die as Trump's Task Force is Not Allowed to Speak With Biden's Covid Task Force | Assessing the Growing Coronavirus Death Toll and How to Reverse It backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 11, 2020 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson | Alan Hirsch | Lawrence Gostin
November 11, 2020 21:56 - 81.5 MBThe Purge at The Pentagon and The Coup Underway Against the Transition | This Manufactured Election Crisis is Far Worse Than 1876 or 2000 | With 135,000 New Covid Cases on Tuesday, the Pandemic is Out of Control backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 10, 2020 - Harry Litman | Sidney Blumenthal | Ruth Ben-Ghiat
November 11, 2020 00:13 - 80.2 MBA Self-Pardon Or One By a President Pence? | The GOP and Most of Trump's 71 Million Voters Refuse to Accept Defeat | Our Weak Strongman is Taking His Defeat Poorly But Predictably backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 9, 2020 - Lincoln Mitchell | Lawrence Korb | Julian Zelizer
November 09, 2020 23:37 - 138 MBCould Trump Form a Permanent Opposition of 71 Million Voters Who Believe he Won? | Trump's "Termination" of His Secretary of Defense | The History of Presidential Transitions and Concessions backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 8, 2020 - Joseph Cirincione | Mark Danner | Andra Gillespie
November 08, 2020 19:55 - 82.1 MBThe Madman Melts Down With Thousands of Nukes at His Fingertip | Trump's Followers Believe His Lies That He Won and the Election Was Stolen | The Battle Ahead in Georgia For Control of the Senate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 5, 2020 - Jim Small | Alan Abramowitz | Jeremi Suri
November 06, 2020 02:02 - 85.2 MBArizona Will Have Biden at 264 With Either Georgia, Nevada or Pennsylvania Putting Him Over the 270 | Biden Could Win Georgia Which Will Have Two Run-offs for the Senate That the Democrats Might Control | Only a Right to Vote Could Fix Our Broken Elections and Democracy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 4, 2020 - Richard Parker | Eric Levitz | Will Bunch
November 05, 2020 00:29 - 138 MBBiden Has a Path to the Presidency, Trump Has Lawyers and Courts | Trump the Loser and Four Years of Scorched-Earth Opposition | With Biden Likely to Win Pennsylvania, Trump Sues to Both Stop the Count and to Speed it Up backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 3, 2020 - Bob Fitrakis | Peter Brown | Jonathan Weiler | Robert Alexander | Lydia Camarillo
November 04, 2020 02:59 - 82.1 MBElection Updates from Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Texas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 2, 2020 - Sean Wilentz | Michael Lewis Beck | Travis Ridout
November 02, 2020 23:06 - 79.5 MBWhen Trump Loses Is He Likely to Start Looking Into Countries Without an Extradition Treaty with the U.S? | Is Trump Losing the Rural Vote? | The Last Call in Our Record-Breaking $8 Billion Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
November 1, 2020 - Ron Suskind | Jason Stanley
November 01, 2020 19:28 - 83 MBRon Suskind on The Day After Election Day | Will Fascism Steal the U.S. Election? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
October 29, 2020 - Spencer Sunshine | Steven Greenhouse | Corey Brettschneider
October 29, 2020 23:34 - 88.7 MBAn "Army" of Militias Will Answer Trump to Intimidate Voters on Tuesday | How Trump's False Promises to the Rust Belt Could Hurt Him in Ohio | A New Book of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Opinions and Dissents backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia