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

Background Briefing: November 5, 2018

  Heavily Armed and Untrained Militias Head for the Border We begin with armed militia groups heading for the Southern border which is already militarized with active-duty and National Guard troops along with Border Patrol and speak with Michelle Garcia, a...

Background Briefing: November 4, 2018

  A Frantic Trump Campaigns to Hold the Senate But Not the House We begin in the closing days before a watershed election with Kevin O’Leary, a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of California, Irvine and a former reporter...

Background Briefing: November 1, 2018

  US Troops and Being Used as Props for Trump’s Propaganda We begin with President Trump’s plan to deploy as many as 15,000 troops on the Southern border before the midterm elections even though what he calls an “invasion” of a dwindling number of destitute...

Background Briefing: October 31, 2018

  The Person Who Revealed an Attempt to Smear Robert Mueller We begin with Special Counsel Robert Mueller referring evidence to the FBI that pro-Trump political operatives are offering to pay women to make false claims against Mueller accusing him of sexually...

Background Briefing: October 30, 2018

  Trump and the Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in America We begin with the funerals today of the victims of a massacre of worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue gunned down by an avowed anti-Semite and discuss the resurgence of anti-Semitism in the United States...