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

Background Briefing: April 17, 2025

The Looming Constitutional Crisis as Trump Continues to Defy the Supreme Court and Federal District Courts With “The Dog Ate My Homework” Excuses We begin with a looming constitutional crisis as Trump continues to defy the Supreme Court and Federal...

Background Briefing: April 16, 2025

Trump Appoints Another Unqualified Hack as the Deliberate Destruction of the IRS Continues We begin with the appointment of the discredited Hunter Biden whistleblower to be the latest Acting Commissioner of the IRS as Trump and Musk destroy two pillars of the American...

Background Briefing: April 15, 2025

Harvard Stands up to Trump Then He Hits Them For $2.2 Billion and Threatens Their Tax-exempt Status We begin with Harvard University standing up to the far-right takeover of American academia and Trump’s lie that a nation-wide epidemic of anti-Semitism is...

Background Briefing: April 14, 2025

Is Trump Using El Salvador’s Techno-Autocrat Bukele as an Excuse to Defy the Supreme Court? We begin with Trump’s White House meeting today with El Salvador’s techno-autocrat Bukele who derisively refused to hand over a Maryland resident the Supreme...

Background Briefing: April 13, 2025

How to Ruin a Country  We begin with the weakening and unravelling of America in just a few weeks as the world’s strongest economy is now an international outlier following an exodus of investors from US assets which has driven down the dollar as Brand America...