Background Briefing: November 2, 2020
When Trump Loses Is He Likely to Start Looking Into Countries Without an Extradition Treaty with the U.S? We will begin with Sean Wilentz, Professor of American History at Princeton University and author of The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to...
Background Briefing: November 1, 2020
Ron Suskind on The Day After Election Day We begin with an explosive article in The New York Times based on months of conversations with top officials in the White House who have witnessed Trump's manic, bullying, ridiculing, fabricating and ill-informed...
Background Briefing: October 29, 2020
An "Army" of Militias Will Answer Trump to Intimidate Voters on Tuesday We begin with the looming threat of militia violence at the polls on Tuesday since these various so-called "patriot" groups are answering Trump's call for an "army" to show up at the polls...
Background Briefing: October 28, 2020
Kavanaugh's Partisanship Towards Election Vote Count Raises Alarms We begin with a concurring opinion by Justice Kavanaugh on yesterday's Supreme Court ruling to throw out mailed ballots in Wisconsin that are postmarked by election day but arrive late in which...
Background Briefing: October 27, 2020
Could a Reactionary Majority on the Supreme Court Take America Back to the Gilded Age? We begin with Amy Coney Barrett's choice of Clarence Thomas, the most reactionary judge on the Supreme Court, to swear her in at a staged White House event last night and...
Background Briefing: October 26, 2020
How Dark Money Put Barrett and Her Predecessors on Our Highest Court We begin with the partisan rush to install Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court which culminated Monday night with her being sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas shortly after she was...
Background Briefing: October 25, 2020
Trump Just Rigged a Booby Trap to Cripple a Biden Administration We begin with an alarming move by Trump which took place last week that went largely under the radar but will have devastating consequences for the country. Andrew Feinberg, a reporter covering...
Background Briefing: October 22, 2020
If Biden Gets Under His Skin, Will Trump Have a Meltdown in Tonight's Debate? We begin with a discussion ahead of tonight's final presidential debate and assess whether Trump's sense of grievance will overcome the advice of his handlers who want him to be...
Background Briefing: October 21, 2020
Parents of 545 Immigrant Children Separated at the Border Can't Be Found We begin with the 545 children separated from their families in ICE concentration camps whose parents the government cannot find, most of them having been deported as a result of Trump's...
Background Briefing: October 20, 2020
As Americans Suffer the Pandemic Billionaires' Wealth Increases by $931 Billion We begin with a new study that finds while during the pandemic 62 million American lost work and 8 million slipped into poverty as 98,000 businesses closed and 12 million lost...