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

Background Briefing: August 19, 2021

  Pakistan Celebrates America’s Humiliation Before They Come to Regret Their Pyrrhic Victory We begin with the schadenfreude-like pleasure in Pakistan’s media and among its politicians at America’s pain and humiliation in Afghanistan and speak...

Background Briefing: August 18, 2021

  The UAE Welcomes the Afghan Ex-President Ghani Carrying $169 Million in Cash We begin with Afghanistan’s former president Ashraf Ghani being welcomed in the UAE where he is reported to have arrived with $169 million in cash. Sarah Leah Whitson, the...

Background Briefing: August 17, 2021

  $2 Trillion Blindly Spent on Afghanistan While a Half is Hotly Debated in the Senate Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill We begin with the assurances coming from the Taliban that they will not engage in reprisal killings now that they have taken over Afghanistan but...

Background Briefing: August 16, 2021

  Is What We are Seeing in Afghanistan an Intelligence Failure? We begin with the U.S.’s ignominious exit from Afghanistan underway at the Kabul airport where 6,000 U.S. troops are protecting diplomats, contractors and Afghans who worked for the American...

Background Briefing: August 15, 2021

  The Democrats Are Running Out of Time to Stop Massive GOP Voter Suppression We begin with the possibility that time will run out for the Democrats before they pass laws to stop the enormous and comprehensive campaign of voter suppression underway by the...