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

Background Briefing: June 4, 2023

  A Phony Crisis Averted Now a Celebration of Compromise and Bipartisanship  We begin with a phony crisis averted with the US and global economy not tumbling over the brink which was the alarm sounded often in the press only to be followed by a celebration of...

Background Briefing: June 1, 2023

  Trump Eviscerates His Own Defense as Jack Smith Closes in on Indicting Him We begin with what legal analysts and pundits are describing as “game over” for Trump in being able to defend himself from charges pending from the Special Counsel Jack Smith...

Background Briefing: May 31, 2023

The Sacklers Get to Keep Most of Their Money After a Million Americans Have Died From Their Drug OxyContin We begin with a Federal Appeals Court Ruling on Tuesday that gives the Sackler family responsible for the opioid epidemic caused by their drug OxyContin immunity...

Background Briefing: May 30, 2023

The Hazardous Passage of the Debt Ceiling Deal Through Congress We begin with the deal struck between President Biden and Speaker McCarthy to avert a default in a manufactured crisis over the debt ceiling which has left progressives on the left furious that Biden...

Background Breifing: May 29, 2023

Remembering an American General Who Would Not Speak of the Glorious Dead on Memorial Day We begin on this Memorial Day and speak with an Army veteran whose grandfather was a hero of World War II Lieutenant General Lucian Truscott Jr who gave an eulogy on Memorial Day...