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

Background Briefing: August 27, 2018

  Lessons From the Chicago Riots 50 Years Later On this 50th anniversary of the riots surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago we will begin with Marilyn Katz, a writer, consultant and long-time political activist. She was head of security for the...

Background Briefing: August 26, 2018

  A Remembrance of Senator John McCain We begin with a remembrance of Senator John McCain who died on Saturday a few days short of his 82nd birthday and speak with Norm Ornstein, a contributing editor for The Atlantic and co-author of “One Nation After Trump: A...

Background Briefing: August 23, 2018

  Trump is Putin’s Asset and In Debt to the Russian “Mafiya” We begin with the author of the explosive new book which makes the case that the man in the White House, Donald Trump, is an asset of the Putin government and is in debt to the Russian organized crime...

Background Briefing: August 22, 2018

  A Veteran Investigator on the Trump Administrations Unprecedented Sleaze We  begin with Jack Blum, a veteran of U.S. Senate investigations who uncovered the Lockheed bribery scandal the B.C.C.I bank scandal and the CIA-Contra cocaine connection.  A Washington...

Background Briefing: August 21, 2018

  The Law Is Closing in on Trump from Two Directions We begin with a dramatic day in federal courts in Virginia with Paul Manafort found guilty on 8 counts, 4 for tax fraud, 2 for bank fraud and I for hiding foreign bank accounts and in Manhattan Michael Cohen...