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

Background Briefing: April 30, 2020

  Exposing an Undercount of Covid-19 Deaths in Florida and in the Nation We begin with the undercount of the number of deaths in this country from COVID-19 with researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finding that 15,400 more people died between March 1...

Background Briefing: April 29, 2020

  Investigating the Origins of the Covid-19 Virus We begin with the Trump administration abruptly cutting off funds today to EcoHealth Alliance which was researching infectious diseases emerging from viruses in animals like the Covid-19 virus because of the New...

Background Briefing: April 28, 2020

  How Trump Ignored Intelligence Briefings When the Virus Could Have Been Stopped We begin with revelations in today’s Washington Post of the more than a dozen times in January and February Trump was warned in classified briefings about the threat of the...

Background Briefing: April 27, 2020

  Stacey Abrams Offers Herself as Biden’s VP We begin with the speculation over who Joe Biden will pick as his running mate having already said it would be a woman. One possibility getting a lot of attention is the former losing candidate for governor in...

Background Briefing: April 26, 2020

  Deadly Advice From the Quack-in-Chief We begin with the toddler-in-chief pouting that the other kids in the playground were making fun of him, prompting Trump to tweet petulantly that his daily White House briefings were “Not worth the time &...