Background Briefing: January 27, 2021
As Republicans Try to Stop the Impeachment Trial, Will Democrats Wimp Out With a Censure of Trump? We begin with efforts underway by Senator Lindsey Graham to sabotage the impeachment trial and drag it out while Democratic Senator Tim Kaine is now talking about...
Background Briefing: January 26, 2021
Putin's Dilemma: A Dead Navalny Means More Demonstrations While a Live Navalny Leads the Opposition We begin on the day that President Biden had his first phone call with Vladimir Putin and go to Moscow to speak with Alexey Kovalev, a Russian journalist who...
Background Briefing: January 25, 2021
The Storming of the Capitol as the Culmination of Generation of Far-Right Extremism We begin with the impeachment article charging Trump with "inciting violence against the government of the United States" which the House sent to the Senate today for a second...
Background Briefing: January 24, 2021
McConnell is Already Trying to Strangle the Biden Presidency We begin with efforts underway by outgoing Senate Majority Leader McConnell that he is already moving to limit the ability of the new and razor-thin Democratic majority to govern, using the Organizing...
Background Briefing: January 21, 2021
Biden Rejoins the WHO and Joins the Fight Against Covid as Mutations Race Against Vaccinations We begin with the flurry of executive orders coming from President Biden, most associated with trying to get control of the Covid-19 pandemic which has claimed over...
Background Briefing: January 20, 2021
Biden's Inauguration and His Call For Unity and Civility We begin with today's inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris and speak with Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz, whose books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to...
Background Briefing: January 19, 2021
Will Biden's Ambitious Agenda be Sidetracked by Trump's Impeachment Trial? We begin with Biden's arrival in Washington today on a chartered plane because a petty Trump would not afford him the courtesy of arriving on a government plane and discuss the...
Background Briefing: January 18, 2021
The Role of Apocalyptic Evangelicalism and Religious Nationalism in the Storming of the Capitol We begin on this Martin Luther King Day with the role of apocalyptic evangelicalism and religious nationalism in the recent storming of the capitol where, amid the...
Background Briefing: January 17, 2021
Mounting Evidence the Attack on the Capitol Was an Inside Job We begin with mounting evidence that the storming of the capitol on January 6 was an inside job, not just with police and military joining the mob, but with Trump officials inside the government...
Background Briefing: January 14, 2021
Is the Toxic Trump GOP Now a Captive of the Lunatic Fringe? We begin with the majority of House Republican still standing by Trump after he had his supporters attack and ransack their workplace and threaten their Vice President's life. Admittedly many more...