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

Background Briefing: September 23, 2021

  Is McConnell Bluffing Over Not Raising the Debt Ceiling? We begin with Senator McConnell who is blocking Police reform, Tax reform, Immigration reform, Voting Rights, Economic stimulus and the January 6 Commission and is now vowing not to cooperate on raising...

Background Briefing: September 22, 2021

  The January 6 Coup Almost Succeeded, Not by the Mob, But the Eastman Memo We begin with the revelations in the new book Peril by the Washington Post reporters Woodward and Costa that makes it alarmingly clear how close we came to a coup on January 6, not so...

Background Briefing: September 21, 2021

  At the U.N. Biden Urges World Leaders to Face the Challenges of Climate Change and Pandemics We begin with President Biden’s address today to the U.N. in which he declared the world is at an “inflection point” with climate change and pandemics...

Background Briefing: September 20, 2021

  Could the Collapse of Evergrande Become China’s Lehman Brothers Moment? We begin with the possibility that a huge Chinese property conglomerate Evergrande could default on its $300 billion in debt and trigger China’s Lehman Brothers moment in the...

Background Briefing: September 19, 2021

  We Need More Covid Booster Shots, Not Less We begin with the FDA’s decision on Friday not to allow Pfizer to offer Covid booster shots for Americans 16 and older but instead to make them available to those 65 and older, as well as to front line medical...