Background Briefing with Ian Masters
1,574 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day 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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August 18, 2020 - John Nichols | Moira Donega | Mohamad Bazzi
August 18, 2020 23:26 - 82.9 MBAn Assessment of the First Night of the Democrat's Virtual Convention | The 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment | How Do the Lebanese People Break Free From the Sectarian Warlords? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 17, 2020 - Joshua Geltzer | Barton Gellman | Natalie Manaeva Rice
August 17, 2020 22:52 - 83.5 MBTrump's Three-Pronged Attack on the Election | What is Behind Trump's Suggested Pardoning of Edward Snowden | Putin is Unlikely to Invade Belarus to Rescue a Dictator he Despises backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 16, 2020 - Richard Parker | Matt Angle | Michael Shifter
August 16, 2020 17:50 - 87.1 MBTrump and DeJoy's Criminal Sabotage of the USPS Underway | Can the Democrats Do Something to Stop Trump From Writing the Rules For His Own Reelection? | Elliott Abrams' Appointment and the Seizure of Tankers From Iran to Venezuela backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 13, 2020 - Angelo Carusone | Steve Hutkins | Rick Perlstein
August 13, 2020 22:42 - 86.8 MBTrump Praises a Racist Q-Anon Devotee as a Rising Star in the GOP | Trump and De Joy's Criminal Attack on the United States Postal Service | The Author of Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976 - 1880 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 12, 2020 - Chelsea Janes | Christopher Parker | Allan Lichtman
August 12, 2020 20:41 - 82.8 MBThe Washington Post Reporter who was Embedded in Kamala Harris's Presidential Primary Campaign | What Will Kamala Harris Bring to the On-going Struggle For Racial Justice? | The Presidential Predictor Who Always Gets It Right On His Prediction Biden Will Win in November backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 8, 2020 - Andra Gillespie | John Lawrence | Thom Hartmann
August 12, 2020 00:30 - 95.6 MBBiden Chooses California Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice Presidential Running Mate | The Messaging War Between the Democratic Leaders and the White House Over the Next Stimulus Package | The Hidden History of Monopolies Exposed backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 10, 2020 - David Hearst | David Marples | James Thurber
August 10, 2020 23:14 - 90.3 MBU.S. Court Summons MBS and His Hit Team to Answer Charges From Targeted Former Saudi Intelligence Official | Europe's Last Dictator Flagrantly Steals Sunday's Election | Will the Next Stimulus Package Have Money for the Post Office? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 9, 2020 - Paul Light | Anders Aslund | Vincent Bevins
August 09, 2020 17:52 - 178 MBTrump's Phony Stunt to Break a Deadlock That He Created | The Ex-KGB Ukrainian Who Senators Johnson and Grassley Are Working With to Get Dirt on Biden | How the Jakarta Method of Exterminating Leftists Was Exported to Brazil and Chile. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 6, 2020 - Thanassis Cambanis | Joshua Horwitz | Philip Rubio
August 06, 2020 22:35 - 83.8 MBTrump Insists Without Evidence the Destruction of Beirut Was Not an Accident | The Once-Powerful NRA Will Go the Way of the Trump Foundation | A Veteran of the U.S.P.S. on the Manufactured Crisis to Destroy it backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 5, 2020 - Habib Battah | Lincoln Mitchell | Dr. Michael McDonald
August 05, 2020 22:35 - 82.4 MBAn Update From Beirut on the Devastation Which Government Incompetence and Indifferent Politicians Are Responsible For | Trump's Law and Order Campaign is Backfiring | Trump OK's Mail-in Ballots in Florida Because the Democrats are Ahead With 600,000 More Requests backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 4, 2020 - Robert Baer | Aaron Rupar | Stephanie Kelton
August 05, 2020 00:09 - 168 MBA Massive Explosion Rocks Beirut Ahead of a Verdict in the Bombing of a Former Prime Minister | Trump's Disastrous Interview in Which Follow Up Questions Were Asked | Republicans Revive the Deficit Myth After Voting For Trump's Tax Cuts
August 3, 2020 - Dr. Irwin Redlener | Dr. Stanley Perlman | Chuck Collins
August 03, 2020 22:09 - 87.7 MBAll of Trump's Public Health Experts Should Have Resigned Months Ago | The Countrywide Spread of the Coronavirus and Herd Immunity | Billionaires Are Richer Than Ever So Why Aren't They Giving More? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 2, 2020 - Ananya Roy | Christopher Shaw | Tom Hastings
August 02, 2020 17:40 - 91.1 MBAmericans Face a Tsunami of Evictions | It is Clear Trump is Crippling the U.S. Postal Service to Stymie Voting by Mail in November | Advice From Portland's Veteran in Non-Violent Activism and Training backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 30, 2020 - Rachel Kleinfeld | Rudy deLeon | David Dayen
July 30, 2020 23:42 - 94.8 MBOn the Day John Lewis is Buried, Trump Attacks Voting Rights To Delay the Election | Members of the Military, Does the Commander-in-Chief Have Your Back? | Congress Finally Addresses Monopoly Power backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 29, 2020 - Ryan Cooper | Stuart Schrader | Robert Draper
July 29, 2020 23:32 - 105 MBThe $1 Trillion Republican Stimulus Bill Gives the Pentagon More Weapons They Don't Want While Stiffing the American People | How the Dirty Wars We Exported Are Coming Home in Portland | The Origins of the Iraq War as Trump's Hawks Plan a War With Iran backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 28, 2020 - Rebecca Roiphe | Jennifer Mercieca | Garrett Epps
July 28, 2020 22:38 - 83.3 MBBlack Lives Matter Versus Antifa at Barr's Grilling Before the House | What Can be Done to Stop Giving the Trump Campaign Videos to Discredit Peaceful Protests | How and Why Trump's Dangerous Demagoguery Works So We Can Defend Ourselves From It backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 27, 2020 - Thomas Bollyky | Lawrence Douglas | Michael D'Antonio
July 27, 2020 23:07 - 86 MBThe Continuation of the Republican War on Strong Women by Weak and Insecure Men | How the 2020 Election Meltdown Could be a Repeat of 1876 | The Danger of Vaccine Nationalism Making the Pandemic Worse backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 26, 2020 - Sarah Churchwell | Michael Hirsh | Rob Johnson
July 26, 2020 18:57 - 89.8 MBThe Deep Roots of Fascism in America | Fascists Always Fail and So Will Trump | McConnell's Congress Takes Care of the Donors First With Leftover Crumbs for the American People backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 23, 2020 - Elizabeth Goitein | Trita Parsi | Victor Shih
July 23, 2020 23:39 - 146 MBThe Enormous Emergency Powers a Lawless Trump Has at Hand His Predecessors Used With Restraint | A Plan to End Our Misguided Policy of Domination in the Middle East | Trump's New Cold War With China as a Reelection Strategy backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 22, 2020 - Federico Finchelstein | Orville Schell | Daniel Drezner
July 22, 2020 23:12 - 83.7 MBFascism Comes to America | An Escalating Tit-For-Tat With China | What Will a Post-Trump GOP Look Like? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 21, 2020 - Sharon Meieran | Heather Boushey | Jeet Heer
July 21, 2020 23:53 - 141 MBOne of the Moms From the "Wall of Moms" in Portland Protecting the Protesters | Families About to Lose Their Unemployment Money Face Eviction and Foreclosure | Trump's One-Man Coronavirus Show Bombs as the Pandemic Rages backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 20, 2020 - Mike German | Sean Wilentz | Dr. Robert Bollinger
July 20, 2020 23:06 - 82.9 MBAfter a Trial Run in Portland, Trump Plans to Deploy his Private Federal Militia in Chicago and Across the Country | An Historian and Friend of John Lewis Talks About His Hero | Can We Reverse the Pandemic's Deadly Trajectory Before it is Too Late? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 19, 2020 - Robert Evans | Sen. Tim Wirth | Allan Frances
July 19, 2020 18:40 - 86.7 MBCitizens of Portland Continue Their Stand Against Brutal Police Now Aided by Trump's Stormtroopers | How Trump and Barr Are Planning to Overturn the Election | A Psychiatrist Examines Mary Trump's Book on Her Uncle backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 16, 2020 - Lisa Graves | Greg Palast | Dr. Dan Cooper
July 16, 2020 22:00 - 83.7 MBWill Trump Be Able to Kill the Postal Service Before November to Stop Mail-in Ballots? | Biden May Be Ahead in the Polls But 16 Million Likely Democratic Voters Have Already Been Purged | Can School Kids Be Protected From Covid in the Classroom? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 15, 2020 - John Barry | Ryan Devereaux | Julian Zelizer
July 15, 2020 22:15 - 83.7 MBSince Trump Blew Our First Chance, We Have To Contain Covid Now Because We Won't Get a Third Chance | Instead of Antifa, Police Should Focus on the Boogaloo Bois Who Are Killing Cops to Start a Civil War | How Newt Gingrich Changed the GOP Into a Party of Nasty Disrupters backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 14, 2020 - Jennifer Taub | Dennis Kelleher | Kathy Hipple
July 14, 2020 22:42 - 85.2 MBTrump Clearly Bribed Stone For His Silence But Will Other Republican Senators Join the Two Who Have Condemned His Criminality? | The Supreme Court Gives Pension Fund Managers the Green Light to Rip Off Retirees | As the Frackers Go Out Of Business, Methane Spews From Abandoned Wells backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 13, 2020 - Corey Brettschneider | Shannon Bennett | David Glass
July 13, 2020 21:44 - 81.1 MBTrump's Pardon of Roger Stone is Unconstitutional | Trump Defames Dr. Fauci While Offering Medical Advice From a Talk Show Host | The Owner of the Washington Redskins Bows to Financial, Not Moral Pressure backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 12, 2020 - Adam Klasfeld | Cas Mudde | Nina Jankowicz
July 12, 2020 18:02 - 87.2 MBDid the Dirty Trickster of The Mob Boss-in-Chief Threaten to Rat Him Out If he Goes to Jail? | The Global Growth of the Extreme Right and the Radical Right | Why the West is Losing the Information War backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 9, 2020 - David Cay Johnston | Leah Litman | Joseph Nye
July 09, 2020 21:39 - 83.8 MBSCOTUS Hands Trump a Victory Even Though he is Whining That it's Not Fair | Trump and Roberts are the Winners While the American Public is the Loser | In Extinguishing the Voice of America, We Lose Our Best "Soft Power" Asset backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 8, 2020 - Lance Dodes | Jamille Fields Allsbrook | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
July 08, 2020 22:16 - 85 MBTrump's Niece Portrays Her Uncle as a Fraud and a Bully Whose Ego is So Fragile it Must Be Bolstered Every Moment | The Supreme Court Makes Birth Control Less Accessible and Abortion More Likely | The Left Wing and Right Wing Populists Meet For a White House Photo-op backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 7, 2020 - Amanda Marcotte | Craig Holman | Henri Barkey
July 07, 2020 22:17 - 141 MBAre There Enough Racists in America for Trump to Win in November? | A Little But Not Enough Transparency on Who Got the SBA's PPP Money | NATO Members French and Turkish Warships Clash Off Libya backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 6, 2020 - Elie Honig | Jason Stanley | Laura Miller
July 06, 2020 21:40 - 85.4 MBTo Avoid Prison Will Epstein's Procurer Implicate Powerful Men? | Trump's Full-on Fascist 4th of July Speeches | The Cumulative Effect of the Books by the "Axis of Adults" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 5, 2020 - David Shimer | Roger Morris
July 05, 2020 18:25 - 82.8 MBThe History Of The U.S. and Russia Rigging Votes | Trump Could Take Advantage of Multiple Crises If We Take His Bait backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 2, 2020 - Pavlina Tcherneva | David Halperin | Toby Miller
July 02, 2020 21:49 - 83.7 MBJob Guarantees Could Reverse the Epidemic of Job Loss Since the Government Has the Cure | SCOTUS Hands DeVos a Victory to Fund Religious Schools at the Expense of Public Education | Mexico's AMLO Thinks Jesus Christ Can Cure the Pandemic backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 1, 2020 - Aaron Blake | Michael Davis | Tom Collina
July 01, 2020 23:28 - 83.4 MBHow Far Out on Limb is Trump With His Latest Routine "Hoax" Defense? | Protestors Arrested On the First Day of China's New Security Law in Hong Kong | With Trump and Putin Having the Ability to Destroy the World at Their Fingertip, We Should All be Worried backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 4, 2020 - Aaron Blake | Michael Davis | Tom Collina
July 01, 2020 23:28How Far Out on Limb is Trump With His Latest Routine "Hoax" Defense? | Protestors Arrested On the First Day of China's New Security Law in Hong Kong | With Trump and Putin Having the Ability to Destroy the World at Their Fingertip, We Should All be Worried backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 30, 2020 - Paul Pillar | David Rohde | Frederick Clarkson
June 30, 2020 22:37 - 84.3 MBTrump's Excuses For Ignoring Intelligence Get Increasingly Lame as More Evidence Emerges | The Taliban Side of the Story From Someone Who Was Kidnapped by Them | The Supreme Court's Makeup Gift to the Religious Right backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 29, 2020 - Nicole Hemmer | Christine Fair | Dru Gladney
June 29, 2020 21:39 - 83.3 MBIs Trump's Incitement of his Armed Followers to Confront Demonstrators his Reelection Strategy? | In Afghanistan Russia Holds a Grudge But the Taliban Hardly Need to be Bribed to Kill Americans | China's Forced Sterilization of Uighur Women backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 28, 2020 - James W. Loewen | Luke Harding
June 28, 2020 17:52 - 87 MBTrump Cares More About Dead Confederate Soldiers Than Live Black Americans | Investigating the GRU's Unit 29155 and Why Trump Has Not Lifted a Finger to Stop Them Killing U.S. Soldiers backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 25, 2020 - Andrew Noymer | Lincoln Mitchell | Lara Friedman
June 25, 2020 21:36 - 84.4 MBAs Trump Does the Opposite of What is Needed, We Could Have 300,000 Covid Deaths by November | What Happens When Trump Rejects the Election Results? | With Trump's Backing, Israel Moves to Annex 30% of the West Bank backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 24, 2020 - Harry Litman | Cynthia Miller-Idress | Kent Harrington
June 24, 2020 22:21 - 85.2 MBRepublicans Try to Shut Down Testimony From Critics of Barr | The U.S. Military's Vulnerability to Infiltration by Neo-Nazi Groups | The Latest Threats From North Korea and Why China Props up the Regime backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 23, 2020 - Ari Berman | Jennifer Rodgers | Dr. Lawrence Gostin
June 23, 2020 21:43 - 85.4 MBHow "Moscow Mitch's" Voting Suppression is Playing Out in Kentucky Today | A Former AUSA with the SDNY on How New York Prosecutors Will Not be Cowed by Barr and Trump | Dr. Fauci's Testimony Today and the Need For the Country to Unite to Face a Common Threat backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 22, 2020 - Scott Horton | Kavita Patel | Andrea Flores
June 22, 2020 22:35 - 84.2 MBStrands of Incriminating Evidence Against Trump are Coming Together | An Update on the Pandemic as Trump Pretends it Has Gone Away | Trump and Miller's Relentless Drive to Hurt Immigrants and Their Families backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 21, 2020 - David Rothkopf | Catherine Belton
June 21, 2020 18:27 - 93.1 MBTo Avoid a Growing Likelihood of Humiliation, Could Trump Walk Off the Job he Doesn't Like Doing | The Real History of Putin and How the KGB Never Went Away backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 18, 2020 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Craig Futterman | Rob Jackson
June 18, 2020 21:32 - 83.6 MBIs the Dam Breaking to Sweep Trump Away? | The Killing in Atlanta Reveals a Sadistic Streak in Policing | After a Recent Drop, CO2 Emissions are Surging Back as Countries and States Reopen backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 17, 2020 - Joshua Geltzer | Lara Bazelon | Joshua Douglas
June 17, 2020 22:08 - 81.6 MBTrump and Barr's Frantic Last-Ditch Effort to Stop the Release of Bolton's Book | Trump's "Law and Order" Photo Op Dressed up as Police Reform | Democratic Candidate's Race in Kentucky to Unseat McConnell Tightens backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 16, 2020 - Charles Armstrong | Joshua Fitt | Tobias Wolff
June 16, 2020 23:27 - 130 MBKim Jong-Un's Sister Issues North Korea's Latest Round of Threats | Chinese Soldiers Club 20 Indian Soldiers to Death on Disputed Border | The Supreme Court's Ruling Protecting LGBT Americans From Being Fired Because of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 15, 2020 - Peniel Joseph | Adam Hochschild | Kate Mackintosh
June 15, 2020 21:48 - 82.7 MBAn Awakening Underway Will Leave Trump and His Racist Followers in the Rear-View Mirror of History | The Toppling of Statues of Confederate Generals and Slave Traders | Trump's Attack on the Staff of the International Criminal Court backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 14, 2020 - Malcolm Nance | Stuart Schrader | Steven Simon
June 14, 2020 17:19 - 96 MBTrump's Misuse of the Most Diverse Class of West Point Cadets as Campaign Props | The Militarized Mindset of Policing in America | Shifting the Focus from Jihadist Terrorists Abroad to Right-Wing Terrorists at Home backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
June 11, 2020 - Jim Adams | Dr. Scott Ellsworth | Stephanie Kelton
June 11, 2020 21:06 - 84 MBTrump's Gift to Donald Jr., You Can Now Kill Hibernating Bear Cubs and Their Mothers Along With Wolf Pups | Trump Chooses "Juneteenth" and Tulsa, the Site of the Worst Massacre of Blacks in Our History, for his Campaign Rally | The Economist Stephanie Kelton Explodes the Deficit Myth backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia