A DAILY PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM FEATURING NEWS ANALYSIS OF THE DAY'S TOP ISSUES

Background Briefing: December 31, 2018

  The Consequences of Hate Speech We continue on this New Years Eve with our look back on some important stories of 2018 and go to an interview from October with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and a cultural...

Background Briefing: December 30, 2018

  Did Cohen Meet Russians in Prague in 2016? We begin with the two latest stories of evidence emerging revealing possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia with McClatchy reporting that cell signals off a cell tower in Prague place the mobile phone...

  Weaponizing Women’s Rage We begin today’s 2018 retrospective with an interview from September 26. With a third accuser of Judge Kavanaugh who provided a declaration under penalty of perjury which not just supports the evidence so far from the first...

Background Briefing: December 26, 2018

By the Year 2040, 30% Will Choose 70 Out of 100 Senators We continue our look back on the most important stories of 2018 with a look into the present challenge the Democrats have of overcoming a baseline deficit of having to win 8% more votes than the Republicans just...

Background Briefing: December 25, 2018

Caught Between Putin and Trump, Will American Democracy be Saved by Robert Mueller? We continue our look back on the most important stories of 2018 with an insightful briefing from May 10th on the tenuous state of American democracy as we find ourselves caught between...