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

Background Briefing: September 10, 2018

  Sweden’s Far Right Fills the Vacuum Left by the Left We begin with the elections in Sweden, the results of which many find alarming though not as dire as some predicted with the far right Sweden Democrats gaining 17.6% of the vote to the once-dominant...

Background Briefing: September 9, 2018

  Kavanaugh Should Be Impeached for Lying to the Senate We begin with the call to not just reject the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, but to impeach him for lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in last week’s hearings. Lisa Graves,...

Background Briefing: September 6, 2018

Full Briefing   The Warning from Inside Trump’s Inner Circle We begin with the anonymously authored op-ed in The New York Times by a senior Trump Administration official “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration” which has the president lashing...

Background Briefing: September 5, 2018

   Kavanaugh Stonewalls Democrats While Republicans Heap Unctuous Praise Upon Him We begin with the testimony today from Brett Kavanaugh where he obfuscated tough questions from Senate Democrats with layers of lofty legalism while being handed groveling softball...

Background Briefing: September 4, 2018

  The Contentious Kavanaugh Hearing We begin with the first day of the confirmation hearing to seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court which began with protests from the audience and objections from the Democrats that they were given only 10% of Kavanaugh’s...