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

Background Briefing: November 18, 2021

  Big Pharma’s Blitz to Weaken Biden’s Build Back Better Bill We begin with the onslaught from Big Pharma with 1,600 lobbyists dispatched to Congress along with deceptive ad campaigns on TV to water down provisions in the Build Back Better social...

Background Briefing: November 17, 2021

  Will an Acquittal of Rittenhouse Embolden the 30% of Republicans Who Believe Violence is Necessary? We begin with the Kyle Rittenhouse trial now in the hands of the jury where outside the courthouse, protestors are gathering and the Wisconsin National Guard has...

Background Briefing: November 16, 2021

  Backsliding Among the World’s Democracies We begin with the global struggle between democracy and autocracy characterized by yesterday’s virtual summit between President Biden and Xi Jinping and explore the findings in a new study from V-Dem, a...

Background Briefing: November 15, 2021

  A Virtual Summit of America’s Messy Democracy Versus Xi Jinping’s Efficient Autocracy We begin with the virtual summit later this evening between China’s Xi Jinping and President Biden scheduled to last for 3 hours and speak with Perry Link,...

Background Briefing: November 14, 2021

  Our Fragile Planet Hangs By a Thread With a Meek and Weak COP 26 Agreement We begin with the final agreement emerging from the COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow in which China joined with India in watering down the language from a “phase out” of coal...