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

Background Briefing: April 23, 2023

  Tensions Within the Supreme Court As Its Popularity and Credibility Suffers While Justice Thomas Flouts Ethics  We begin with the Supreme Court stay on the abortion pill case keeping medication abortion legal for a while which brought a blistering dissent from...

Background Briefing: April 20, 2023

What Will it Take For the Supreme Court to Deal With Reality and Politicians to Ignore the NRA? We begin with yet another shooting atrocity in America, this time a six-year-old and her parents were shot by a neighbor after a basketball rolled into his yard. Joining us...

Background Briefing: April 19, 2023

How Innocent Mistakes Can Get You Killed in the NRA’s America  We begin with a series of shootings in the last few days in which victims making everyday mistakes such as ringing the wrong doorbell, entering the wrong driveway or getting in the wrong car that...

Background Briefing: April 18, 2023

The House Republican Caucus Fails to Agree on a Budget to Punish the Poor and Reward the Rich Using the Debt Ceiling as Leverage   We begin by mentioning what was predicted on yesterday’s program that the Murdochs would settle with Dominion and that just...

Background Briefing: April 17, 2023

  How Americans Alarmed by the Murdoch Propaganda Machine and Appalled by Trump, Subsidize Fox News We begin with the delay in the Dominion case against Fox News which indicates there may be a settlement before Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson and other top...