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Background Briefing: March 12, 2024

  Of the $1.6 Trillion in Discretionary Spending in Biden’s 2025 Budget, a Trillion Goes to the Military and $499 Billion For Everything Else We begin with Biden’s $7.266 trillion 2025 budget released Monday of which $1.6 trillion is discretionary...

Background Briefing: March 11, 2024

  Have Israel’s Right Wing Supporters and the AIPAC Lobby Lost the Narrative on Israel in Popular Culture? We begin with last night’s Academy Awards at which Jonathan Glazer, the winning international film director of The Zone of Interest, a movie...

Background Briefing: March 10, 2024

  Biden Turns the Tide Against the Press and Pollsters Who Have Written Him Off As Too Old and Losing Badly to Trump We begin with a turning of the tide as Biden, who has been written off by the press and pollsters as too old and losing badly to Trump, made a...

Background Briefing: March 7, 2024

What Biden Might, Should and Will Say in Tonight’s State of the Union Address We begin ahead of President Biden’s State of the Union address tonight with an analysis of what might be said, what needs to be said and what we know will be said and speak with...

Background Briefing: March 6, 2024

Can Biden Pick up Haley’s Voters While Placating the Uncommitted Young Democrats? We begin with Mitch McConnell’s craven endorsement of Trump now that he has the nomination all but locked up and whether, after Nikki Haley’s withdrawal, can Biden pick...