Background Briefing with Ian Masters
1,574 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 24 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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April 1, 2020 - Lawrence Gostin | Christine Ferguson | Alexander Cooley & Daniel Nexon
April 01, 2020 23:30 - 83.5 MBWhy There is no National Lockdown in the U.S.; Getting Around Trump With a Bipartisan Approach to Deal With the Crisis; How the Pandemic Will Impact Geopolitics as China Rises and the U.S. Declines backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 31, 2020 - Jason Stanley | Michael Fuchs | Kishore Mahbubani
March 31, 2020 23:25 - 88.6 MBPropaganda is Working For Trump, Helped by Coverage From the Mainstream Press | As Trump Wrecks the Home Front, Pompeo Wreaks Havoc Abroad | The Author of "Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 30, 2020 - Dr. Rachel Werner | Julian Zelizer | Alejandro Velasco
March 30, 2020 23:15 - 87.4 MBThe False Choice Between Saving Lives and Saving Livelihoods; The Need for a Multi-State Solution to Enable Voting by Mail; Venezuela's Opposition Leader's Call to Form an Emergency Government backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 29, 2020 - Dr. Kavita Patel | Dr. Michael Carome | John Barry
March 29, 2020 18:15 - 86.6 MBThe Pandemic Worsens With the First Peak in New York in 2 to 3 Weeks; Gagging Heath Care Workers to Avoid Trump's Vindictiveness; Similarities with the 1918 - 1919 Great Influenza Pandemic backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 26, 2020 - David Smilde | James Galbraith | David Rossi and Adam McGill
March 27, 2020 00:01 - 84 MBBarr Places a $15 Million Bounty on Maduro While Guatemala Exports Six Times More Cocaine to the US; Practical Advice to Ensure Medical and Civilian Supplies Get to Where They Are Needed; Makers of the New HBO Documentary "After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News"
March 25, 2020 - Sylvia Allegretto | LaFleur Stephens-Dougan | Ben Smith
March 26, 2020 00:19 - 80.7 MBThe Stimulus Bill Emerges as an Obscene Gift to CEO's With Chump Change for Workers | Trump Uses Racism to Distract From His Disastrous Handling of the Pandemic | Is Donald Trump Now Running Fox News?
March 24, 2020 - Dr. Dara Kass | Dr. Susan Michaels-Strasser | Pavlina Tcherneva
March 24, 2020 23:11 - 81.4 MBAn Emergency Physician Who Became Infected With COVID-19 at Work | The Selfless Dedication of Nurses Who Are Not Getting the Help They Need | Unemployed Workers Should Be the Senate's First Priority to Get Relief backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 23, 2020 - Matt Stoller | Stacy Mitchell | Dr. Allen Frances
March 23, 2020 23:18 - 83 MBTrump's $500 Billion "Slush Fund" Slows Down Senate Stimulus Bill; The Dire Plight of Small Businesses as Big Corporations Get Bailed Out; Trump Uses the Bully Pulpit While the Democrats Go Silent backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 22, 2020 - Alan Hirsch | Joseph Stieb | Thomas Ferguson
March 22, 2020 18:07 - 86 MBWhat Kind of Election Will We Have in November, If Any?: Will This Crisis Revive Citizenship as Consumerism Becomes Less Patriotic?; The Shameful Insider Trading by U.S. Senators backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 19, 2020 - Ian Haney Lopez | Robert Johnson | Katrina Mulligan
March 19, 2020 23:16 - 82.5 MBToday's GOP as the "White Grievance Party" in Which "Race Is the Original Sin"; A Leading Economist on Whether the Recession We Are Entering Will Become a Depression; Our Wartime President Throws out More Empty Promises
March 18, 2020 - David Rothkopf | Dean Baker | Mae Ngai
March 19, 2020 00:12 - 82 MBWill Trump's Followers Who Were Told It Is a "Hoax" Be the First to Get the Virus? | an Economist on the Politics of the Bailouts | Trump Doubles Down on His Racist Description of the "Chinese Virus" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 17, 2020 - Arthur Caplan | Scott Horton | Daniel Tokaji
March 17, 2020 23:42 - 137 MBA Medical Ethicist on Moral Questions Arising from the Coronavirus Pandemic; Trump's New DNI Tips His Treacherous Hand; Ohio Shuts Down Today's Primary Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 16, 2020 - Matt Richtel | Jonathan Oberlander | Anders Aslund
March 16, 2020 23:46 - 28.2 MBCOVID-19 and the Body's Immune System; Coronavirus and Health Care as a Campaign Issue; An Economy in Freefall and a Looming Global Recession backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 15, 2020 - Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Dr. Susan Butler-Wu | Joshua Yaffa
March 15, 2020 18:50 - 26.9 MBWill Trump Turn the Crisis He Made Worse to His Advantage?; The Critical Nature of the Shortage of Testing Nationwide; The Convergence Between Putin's Political Culture and Our Own backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 12, 2020 - Thomas Bollyky | Benn Steil | Christine Fair
March 12, 2020 20:35 - 27 MBA History of Plagues and Pandemics; How the Democratic Party Dealt With the Bernie Sanders of 1944; The Short-Lived Deal in Afghanistan Which Now Has Two Presidents
March 11, 2020 - Matthew Greenberger | Elizabeth Goitein | Matthew Cole
March 11, 2020 21:27 - 27 MBHas Trump's "America First" Nationalism Contributed to the Botched Handling of the Coronavirus Outbreak; Will Trump Take Advantage of This Real Emergency?; The Full Story About What Erik Prince Has Been up To
March 10, 2020 - Heather Long | Jared Holt | Will Bunch
March 11, 2020 01:34 - 28.2 MBTrump Offers Economic Stimulus While Claiming the Epidemic "Will Go Away"; The Coronavirus Strikes at the Heart of Power in Trump World; Results Coming from Today's Primary Election backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 9, 2020 - Dennis Kelleher | Seema Lakdawala | Amy Myers Jaffe
March 10, 2020 01:26 - 26.7 MBToday's Market Free Fall, the Worst in History; An Expert on Respiratory Viruses and How They Spread; Who Will Be First to Blink in the Saudi-Russia Oil War?
March 8, 2020 - Irwin Redlener | Will Sommer | David Hearst
March 08, 2020 19:15 - 26.9 MBA Leader in Public Health and Disaster Preparedness on the Worsening Coronavirus Pandemic; The Infiltration of Mercenary Intelligence Operations Into Domestic Politics; MBS's Latest Purge and the Saudi-Russian Oil Wars backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
March 5, 2020 - Moira Donegan | Justin Levitt | Craig Holman
March 06, 2020 03:18 - 81 MBElizabeth Warren's Withdrawal From the Presidential Race; Problems With Voting in California and Texas; Can Bloomberg Spent the Other Half a Billion on Biden?
March 4, 2020 - David Schanzer | Kent Harrington | James Kahn
March 05, 2020 02:12 - 54 MBBiden's Dramatic Super Tuesday Turnaround; Trump Purges the Intelligence Community Paving the Way for Russian Interference; Health Insurance Stocks Are the Real Super Tuesday Winners
March 3, 2020 - Mike Lux | Aziz Huq | David Schultz
March 04, 2020 01:14 - 54 MB1. Trump Trolls the Democrats For Ganging Up on Bernie; 2. The Constitutional Earthquake Rendering the Legislative Branch Powerless to Conduct Oversight; 3. The Democratic Old Guard's Politics of the Past Versus Bernie's Politics of the Future
March 2, 2020 - Thomas Barfield | E.J. Dionne
March 03, 2020 03:32 - 81.1 MB1. Trump's Afghan Peace Deal Blows Up Two Days After it is Signed; 2. E.J. Dionne Discusses His New Book Code Red: How Progressives and Moderates Can unite to Save Our Country
February 27, 2020 - Melody Li | Michael Mann | Adam Cohen
February 28, 2020 02:56 - 35.3 MBA Virologist on Where the Coronavirus Outbreak Is Heading; A Report From Australia as the Populous Abandoned by Their Government Rise Form the Ashes; The Author of "Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50 Year Battle for a More Unjust America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 26, 2020 - Matt Angle | Mike Lofgren | David Enrich
February 27, 2020 01:36 - 33.8 MBA Call for a Democratic National Unity Ticket; The Democratic Party Is Moving to the Left Because the Country Has; Why Trump Is so Desperate to Keep His Dealings With Deutsche Bank Secret backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 26, 2020 - Jonathan Weiler | Stanley Perlman | Corey Brettschneider
February 26, 2020 17:15 - 28.5 MBThe Last Candidates' Debate Before Super Tuesday; An Update from a Microbiologist Who Has Studied Coronavirus Parthenogenesis for Four Decades; Will the Chief Justice Defend His Court from Trump's Attacks?
February 24, 2020 - Christina Giorgio | Jessica Brandt | Sumit Ganguly
February 25, 2020 00:23 - 28.7 MBFebruary 24, 2020 - Christina Giorgio | Jessica Brandt | Sumit Ganguly by Ian Masters
February 23, 2020 - David Cay Johnston | Robert Hockett | David Adler
February 23, 2020 21:39 - 31 MBPutin’s Mob Boss in the Oval Office – the Gift the Keeps on Giving; Could We Have a Government That Takes Care of the 99% Instead of the 1%; Putin Should Fear a President Bernie
February 20, 2020 - Robert Baer | Lawrence Korb | Henry Pontell
February 20, 2020 23:52 - 27.4 MBThe New DNI Will Cover Up Russian Election Interference; Roger Stone Gets 40 Months as Trump's Pardon Awaits; Trump Fires a Top Pentagon Official for Speaking Truth backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 19, 2020 - Mike Harris | William Black | Perry Link
February 20, 2020 00:52 - 27.7 MBTrump Offered Assange a Pardon to Say Russia Did Not Hack the DNC; The Message Trump Sends by Pardoning Financial Criminals and Fraudsters; How an Article on the Brittle State of China's Economy Got Under Xi Jinping's Skin backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 18, 2020 - William Cohan | Joshua Landis | Brian Kalt
February 18, 2020 23:51 - 27.7 MBInvestigating Bloomberg's Relationship with Wall Street; The UN Warns of "The Biggest Humanitarian Horror Story of the 21st Century" In Syria; Trump's Flurry of Pardon Ahead of Stone's Sentencing On Thursday backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 17, 2020 - David Dayen | Michael Kazin | Fred Kaplan
February 18, 2020 00:40 - 35.6 MBThe Dangers of a Plutocrat-On-Plutocrat Election; Having Transformed the Democratic Party, Has Bernie Already Won?; The History of the Bomb, Now in Trump's Hands backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 16, 2020 - Daniela Schwarzer | Richard Parker | Caroline Frederickson
February 16, 2020 21:34 - 33.9 MBIn Spite of Pompeo's Gloss, Estrangement Between the US and Europe; The Growing Rift Between Between Centrist and Progressive Democrats; A Portrait of a Rising Political Leader, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 13, 2020 - Elizabeth Goitein | Benjamin Wittes
February 14, 2020 02:24 - 30 MBA Way to Rein Trump In; Trumps Vengeance Tour and His War on the Worlds Most Powerful Office backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 12, 2020 - Harry Litman | Victor Shih | Shawn Fremstad
February 13, 2020 00:51 - 27.4 MBBarr Violates Everything the DOJ Stands For; Xi Jinping's Gamble to Revive the Economy Risks Spreading the Virus; An Analysis of Trump's $4.8 Trillion 2021 Budget backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 10, 2020 - John Nichols | Rebecca Roiphe | Thom Hartmann
February 12, 2020 01:53 - 27.7 MBThe Incoming Results from New Hampshire; Barr Has Turned the DOJ Into Trump's Law Firm; Voting Should Be a Right But It Is NOT Guaranteed in the Constitution backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 10, 2020 - Elie Honig | June Dreyer | Richard Hasen
February 11, 2020 01:04 - 34.3 MBBarr Gives Giuliani a Direct Pipeline to DOJ; Xi Jinping's Heavy Hand Worsened Coronavirus Outbreak Which Could Get out of Hand; How to Protect the 2020 Election From Trump's Expected Cheating backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 9, 2020 - Dante Scala | Joseph Cirincione | Katherine Stewart
February 09, 2020 20:49 - 34.4 MBAn Update From New Hampshire Ahead of Tuesday's Primary; Trump Now Has a Usable Nuclear Weapon at His Fingertips; Trump's Christian Soldiers and the Rise of Religious Authoritarianism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 6, 2020 - Ryan Cooper | Darren Sands | Andrea Bernstein
February 07, 2020 01:49 - 35.4 MBDemocrats Mired in Iowa While Republicans Celebrate at the White House; The Buttigieg Surprise Victory If We Can Call It That; The Trump-Kushner Family Histories and Jared and Ivanka's Dynastic Prospects backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 5, 2020 - Jack Blum | Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker
February 06, 2020 02:00 - 28.1 MBWhy Republican Senators Rolled Over for Trump; The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Authors of "A Very Stable Genius: Donald J Trump's Testing of America" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 4, 2020 - Justin Levitt | Lee Fang | Robert Kuttner
February 05, 2020 01:12 - 31.5 MBA Coding Error in a New App Creates Chaos in Iowa; The Company That Supplied the App's Ties to the Democratic Establishment; Who Is Best to Campaign on Pocketbook Populism? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 3, 2020 - Marc Sandalow | Timothy Hagle | Peter Katona
February 04, 2020 02:09 - 27.5 MBAdam Schiff's Eloquence Falls on Deaf Ears in the Senate; The Likely Backlash to a Sanders' Victory From the Democratic Establishment; An Update on the Global Spread of the New Coronavirus backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
February 2, 2020 - John Stoehr | Robert Leonard | Christopher Sabatini
February 02, 2020 20:14 - 27.6 MBTrump Will Double Down With Revenge and Retribution; An Update From a Local Reporter in Iowa; Venezuela Has Metastasized From a Political Struggle Into a Criminal Reality backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 30, 2020 - Lisa Graves | Elizabeth Saunders | Michael Lewis-Beck
January 30, 2020 22:54 - 27.7 MBTrump's Obsequious Lapdog of Presidential Power Exalts Him Above the Law; If Trump is Exonerated Will He Be Emboldened to Use Military Force?; Sanders' Authenticity with Iowa Voters makes Him Monday's Likely Winner backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 29, 2020 - Katrina Mulligan | Dave Weigel | Steve Phillips
January 30, 2020 01:37 - 28.2 MBTrump's Last-Ditch Effort to Stop the Publication of Bolton's Book; An Update on the Last-Minute Campaigning in Iowa; Mayor Pete's Problems Attracting Minority Voters backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 28, 2020 - Lara Friedman | Max Bergmann | Tim Naftali
January 29, 2020 00:07 - 28.1 MBTrump's Take It Or Leave It Israeli-Palestinian Peace Plan without Palestinians; The Russians Will Elect Trump with No Holds Barred and No Expenses Spared; The Wounded Presidency and How Impeachment Shapes Foreign Policy
January 27, 2020 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Jason Wilson | Chuck Collins
January 28, 2020 02:04 - 28 MBThe Leak from the White House of Bolton's Bombshell Book; A New American Neo-Nazi Terror Group Whose Leader Lives in Russia; The Need to Expose the Global Wealth Defense Industry backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 26, 2020 - Ian Lipkin | Victoria Nourse | Mandy Smithberger
January 26, 2020 20:26 - 27.8 MBOne of the World's Leading Experts on Coronaviruses; Can the President Be Exonerated Without Offering a Defense?; The "Adult in the Room" General Mattis Now Back at General Dynamics backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
January 23, 2020 - Garrett Epps | Aaron Rupar | Daniel Jones
January 24, 2020 00:56 - 27.5 MBThe Clear and Present Dangers of Acquitting Trump; The Deceptive Impeachment Coverage by Fox News; The Person Who Inspired the New Movie "The Report"
January 22, 2020 - Steven Harper | Mark Lowenthal | David Hearst
January 23, 2020 01:40 - 27.8 MBAn Assessment of the Democrats' Impeachment Case; Has Trump Cowed the Intelligence Community into Silence?; The Saudi Crown Prince Personally Inserted Malware Into Jeff Bezos' iPhone backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia