Background Briefing: May 5, 2021
Facebook's Non-Decision on Making its Ban of Trump Permanent We begin with the decision or non-decision by Facebook to maintain its ban against Donald Trump on its platform which was enacted on January 7, the day after the attack on the Capitol that Trump...
Background Briefing: May 4, 2021
Trump's GOP Demands Loyalty to the "Big Lie" While Purging Truth-Tellers We begin with a Republican Party now in the hands of a wannabe-dictator who lost the last election but launched the "stop the steal" campaign to both make money off his followers and get...
Background Briefing: May 3, 2021
With 30% Resisting Vaccination, the U.S. is Unlikely to Reach Herd Immunity We begin with the scientific consensus emerging that the U.S. is unlikely to reach herd immunity as the vaccination rate declines with more than half of adults who wanted to be...
Background Briefing: May 2, 2021
Giuliani in Trouble and Putin Under Threat From Hardliners At Home We begin with growing legal pressure on Rudy Giuliani as federal investigators scrutinize his electronic devices and assess whether he might turn on Trump who cut him loose after refusing to pay...
Background Briefing: April 29, 2021
Biden Lays Out A Social Democratic Manifesto That Harkens to LBJ's "Great Society" and FDR's "Second Bill of Rights" We begin with an assessment of President Biden's speech last night before a joint session of Congress in which he laid out a bold and...
Background Briefing: April 28, 2021
Feds Raid Giuliani and Victoria Toensing's Law Firm and Confiscate Electronic Devices We begin with Federal investigators searching the apartment and office of Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani at 6 AM this morning where they confiscated electronic devices...
Background Briefing: April 27, 2021
Did Iran Send a Signal With the Missile That Landed Near Israel's Reactor at Dimona? We begin with the increasingly dangerous shadow war underway between Israel and Iran following a missile fired from Syria landing near Israel's nuclear reactor at Dimona which...
Background Briefing: April 26, 2021
Biden's 100 Day Approval Rating and How to Build on it For 2022 We begin with approval ratings for Biden's first 100 days, a benchmark set by FDR in 1933 when there was a flurry of bills passed in the depths of a deep depression. According to an ABC/Washington...
Background Briefing: April 25, 2021
A Rash of Police Killings Following the Guilty Verdict of George Floyd’s Murderer We begin with the rash of police killings following the guilty verdict in the trial of the murder of George Floyd and efforts underway in 34 states where Republican legislatures...
Background Briefing: April 22, 2021
Putin Warns the U.S. About Red Lines as He Puts the Squeeze on Belarus We begin with Russian President Putin's warnings to the U.S. not to cross red lines and his claim in an address to the Russian parliament that the CIA had tried to assassinate the dictator...