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

Background Briefing: August 20, 2020

  Can Biden’s Big Tent Paper Over Differences of Policy and Principal? We begin with Robert Kuttner, the co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect and the Ida and Meyer Kirstein Chair at Brandeis University. He was formerly an assistant to the...

Background Briefing: August 19, 2020

   How Trump Wore Down the Intelligence Community We begin with the explosive report from the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee on Paul Manafort which makes clear that there was enormous and systemic collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian...

Background Briefing: August 18, 2020

  An Assessment of the First Night of the Democrat’s Virtual Convention We begin with an assessment of last night’s first of the four nights of the virtual Democratic National Convention with the theme of “We the People” kicking it off...

Background Briefing: August 17, 2020

  Trump’s Three-Pronged Attack on the Election We begin with pushback against the deliberate destruction of the Post Office by Trump and his campaign donor with demonstrators showing up at Post Master General DeJoy’s mansion in North Carolina and his...

Background Briefing: August 16, 2020

  Trump and DeJoy’s Criminal Sabotage of the USPS Underway We begin with the criminal sabotage of the USPS by President Trump and his lickspittle Postmaster General DeJoy underway with 671 mail sorting machines removed nationwide to slow down delivery while...