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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Episodes
September 3, 2019 - Alan Minsky sits in for Ian Masters - Kate Aronoff | Jim Knight | Douglas Lain
September 04, 2019 01:16How the Democratic Presidential Candidates Differ on the Climate Crisis; Making Sense of the Chaos in UK Politics; Critical Theory Over Conspiracy Theory backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
September 2, 2019 - Robert Hockett; Corey Pein; Astra Taylor
September 02, 2019 21:24Will the Democrats Run Away from their Progressive Majority?; Inside the Dystopian Reality of the Tech Boom; A Stronger Democracy Makes a Better Economy
September 1, 2019 -Stacy Mitchell | Sylvia Allegreto | Jeffrey Winters
September 01, 2019 20:01September 1, 2019 -Stacy Mitchell | Sylvia Allegreto | Jeffrey Winters by Ian Masters
August 298, 2019 - Ryan Cooper | Moira Donegan | John Patrick Leary
August 29, 2019 21:48The Deadly Legacy of David Koch | Elizabeth Warren's Surging Campaign | The New Language of Capitalism
August 28, 2019 - Robert Baer | David Hearst | Michael Carpenter
August 29, 2019 01:18Why Does the CIA Not Spy On the UAE?; Is the Mentor MBZ Giving Up On His Protege MBS?; Trump Goes to Bat for Putin Again
August 27, 2019 - Todd Gitlin | Corey Brettschneider | Bill Yeomans
August 28, 2019 01:36Bernie Sanders' Plan to Protect American Journalism; Trump Violates the Emoluments Clause for All to See; Will We Ever Learn the Truth About How Epstein Died? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 26, 2019 - David Wallace-Wells | James Green | Heather Hurlburt
August 27, 2019 01:19Could Collective Action Against Bad Actors Stop Climate Change?; Do Brazilians Have Buyer's Remorse Over Bolsonaro; Again Trump Behaves Badly at the G-7 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
Trump Encourages Boris To Go Over The Cliff
August 26, 2019 01:53Trump Encourages Boris To Go Over The Cliff by Ian Masters
August 25 - Victor Shih | Charles Kupchan | Cynthia Galaz
August 25, 2019 22:00Trump Has Second Thoughts About The Trade War With China; Trump Encourages Boris To Go Over The Cliff; ICE Cuts Off Hotline For Immigrants Because of a TV Show
August 22, 2019 - Lance Dodes | Alexander Zaitchik | Steven Pifer
August 23, 2019 00:49"The Chosen One" Is Losing It; Bolsanaro's War on the Amazon; Trump Tries to Get Putin Readmitted to the G8 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 21, 2019 - William Cohan | Amanda Marcotte | R. Daniel Kelemen
August 21, 2019 23:28Is Trump Losing It?; Is the President Crazy?; Trump Makes Abortions More Likely by Denying Women Contraception; Trump Pouts at the "Nasty" Woman Who Turned Down His Offer to Buy Greenland backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 20, 2019 -Lawrence Douglas | Robert Kuttner | Nicholas Heras
August 21, 2019 00:33Another Cowardly Retreat by Trump After a Call from the NRA; The Democrats Should Be at Least as Radical as FDR; The Pentagon's IG Cautions Trump to Not Let ISIS Rebuild in Syria backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 19, 2019 - Dana Kennedy | Mike German | Dean Baker
August 19, 2019 23:45Ghislaine Maxwell's Mystery and Scandal-Plagued Family; An FBI Insider on How the Bureau is Chasing the Wrong Targets; A Reality Check on the Economy Trump Claims the Fake News is Crashing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 18, 2019 - Jason Wilson | Fernando Morales-de la Cruz | James Henry | Christopher Leonard
August 18, 2019 20:26The Antifa and Proud Boys Battle in Portland; How Starbucks is Forcing Guatemalans to Head North; The Author of "Kochland" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 15, 2019 - Robert Hennelly | Lara Friedman | Ian Haney López
August 15, 2019 23:02More Questions and Suspicions Surround Epstein's Death; Trump Deflects His Own Racism by Claiming the Democrats Are Anti-Semites; Race Is the Main Weapon of the Rich to Divide America in a Class War They Are Winning backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 14, 2019 - Perry Link | Thomas Wright | Harold Meyerson
August 14, 2019 23:37Like Tiananmen, Xi Jinping's Patience Is Being Tested; Pelosi Warns the Brexiteers No Trade Deal If You Undermine the Peace Accord With Ireland; The Democratic Presidential Candidate's Eyes Are on the Wrong Prize backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 13, 2019 - Lisa Graves | Paul Waldman | Jonathan Hansen
August 14, 2019 00:38The Nation's Top Lawman Cannot Be Trusted to Do the Right Thing; Paper Straws: The Latest Front in Trump's Culture Wars; "Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
August 12, 2019 - David Cay Johnston | Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera | Mayra Joachin
August 12, 2019 23:46Trump's Consigliere Barr Has Custody of Epstein's Blackmail; Mexico is Left Holding the Bag for Trump's Border Crackdown; Trump's Move to Deny Green Cards to Poor, Brown Immigrants
August 11, 2019 - Nina Burleigh | Daryl Johnson | Lydia Camarillo
August 11, 2019 20:17Will Epstein's Victims See Justice?; The Author of "Hateland: A Long, Hard Look at America's Extremist Heart"; Will There Be a Backlash with Latinos Voting in Record Numbers in 2020?
August 8, 2019 -Spencer Sunshine | Victoria Sanford | Caroline Fredrickson
August 09, 2019 00:21August 8, 2019 -Spencer Sunshine | Victoria Sanford | Caroline Fredrickson by Ian Masters
July 7, 2019 - Erin Coulehan | Norm Ornstein | Mike Logren
August 08, 2019 00:43Trump's Unwelcome Visit to El Paso; Has Trump's Racism Derailed His Reelection Plans to Run Against the "Mexican Invasion"; The GOP Is Now a Right-Wing Cult
August 6, 2019 - Josh Horwitz | Michael Fuchs | Ben Burgis
August 06, 2019 23:22Grassroots Pressure Can Defeat the NRA; Trump Is Starting a Nuclear Cold War with China; The Left Can Win with Both Facts and Feelings on Their Side
August 5, 2019 - David Schanzer | Aaron Rupar | Dale Beran
August 06, 2019 01:41The El Paso Mass Shooting Is Trump-Inspired Terrorism; Could There Be a Break in the Logjam on Gun Control?; We Are in the Middle of an Alt-Right Terror Epidemic
August 8, 2019 - Julia Davis | Jennifer Mercieca | Tom Diaz
August 04, 2019 20:11August 8, 2019 - Julia Davis | Jennifer Mercieca | Tom Diaz by Ian Masters
August 1, 2019 - Anne Alstott | Scott Kennedy | Christopher Ketcham
August 01, 2019 23:08The Need for More Public Options | Trump Escalates the Trade War with China | The Pillaging and Profiteering from Public Lands
July 31, 2019 - David Graham | Simon Rosenberg | Jeet Heer
July 31, 2019 22:27July 31, 2019 - David Graham | Simon Rosenberg | Jeet Heer by Ian Masters
July 30, 2019 - John Nichols | David Dayen | Anders Åslund
July 31, 2019 01:29A Preview of Tonight's Democratic Debates; Elizabeth Warren's Remarkable Political Journey; Demonstrations By Russia's Professional and Intelligencia Have Putin in a State of Panic
July 29, 2019 - Paul Pillar | D. Watkins | Ryan Grim
July 30, 2019 00:09A Partisan and Conspiracy Theorist as Our New Head of Intelligence; Is Trump Saying That the Residents of Baltimore Are Less Than Human?; Who Will Be Annoying and Who Will Stand out in Tomorrow's Debate?
July 28, 2019 - Andrew Gumbel | Michele Gilman | Chris Arnade
July 28, 2019 20:42Apathy in the Face of Attacks on American Democracy and Sovereignty; Trump Trashes Another Black Congressman and a Whole American City; An Extraordinary Exploration of America’s Vast and Growing Underclass
July 25, 2019 - Walter Shapiro | Robert Knake | Richard Dieter
July 25, 2019 21:41July 25, 2019 - Walter Shapiro | Robert Knake | Richard Dieter by Ian Masters
July 24, 2019 - Harry Litman | James Cronin | Jehane Naijaim & Karim Amer
July 24, 2019 23:35Today's Monosyllabic Mueller Hearings; A Profile of the UK's New PM Boris Johnson; The Filmmakers of the Explosive New Documentary "The Great Hack" https://twitter.com/ianmastersmedia https://www.facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
July 23, 2019 - Michael Davis | Stephanie Griffith-Jones | Henry Giroux
July 24, 2019 00:48Trump Praises Xi Who Uses Triad Gangsters to Beat Up Hong Kong Protesters; The Reality the Delusional Boris Johnson Faces; How to Fight a Fascist President and His "Vichy" Republican Enablers
July 22, 2019 - Christine Fair | Julian Zelizer | Charles Venator-Santiago
July 22, 2019 23:40Trump Sells Out the Afghan People to the Perfidious Pakistan Army's Puppet PM; How Trump's Manipulation of the Media Overwhelms Damaging Stories; One Third of Puerto Ricans Protest Their Corrupt Governor
July 21 -Sean Wilentz | Mohsen Sazegara | James Risen
July 21, 2019 20:06To Impeach, or Not to Impeach?; The Strategy Behind Iran's Seizure of the British Tanker; The Deafening Silence from Trump and Assange Supporters Following Revelations of Assange's Ties to Russian Intelligence
July 18, 2019 - Justin Levitt | Roger Morris
July 18, 2019 20:26July 18, 2019 - Justin Levitt | Roger Morris by Ian Masters
July 17 - Jonathan Weiler | Eric Levitz | Garrett Epps
July 18, 2019 00:37July 17 - Jonathan Weiler | Eric Levitz | Garrett Epps by Ian Masters
July 16, 2019 - Scott Horton | Halie Soifer| Ekow Yankah
July 17, 2019 00:35July 16, 2019 - Scott Horton | Halie Soifer| Ekow Yankah by Ian Masters
July 15, 2019 - Nikhil Pal Singh | David Schultz | Jeff Hauser
July 16, 2019 00:22July 15, 2019 - Nikhil Pal Singh | David Schultz | Jeff Hauser by Ian Masters
July 14, 2019 - William Hartung | Lucian Truscott | Ahmet Yayla
July 14, 2019 19:50July 14, 2019 - William Hartung | Lucian Truscott | Ahmet Yayla by Ian Masters
July 11 - Trump's Wingnut Social Media Summit
July 12, 2019 00:51July 11 - Trump's Wingnut Social Media Summit by Ian Masters
July 10 - Who Had Ever Hear of Emoluments Until Trump Came Along?
July 11, 2019 00:49July 10 - Who Had Ever Hear of Emoluments Until Trump Came Along? by Ian Masters