Background Briefing: September 4, 2018
The Contentious Kavanaugh Hearing We begin with the first day of the confirmation hearing to seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court which began with protests from the audience and objections from the Democrats that they were given only 10% of Kavanaugh’s...
Background Briefing: September 3, 2018
Labor’s Challenge in the Gig Economy as Big Tech Gets Bigger and Bezos Gets Richer We begin on this Labor Day and assess the damage Donald Trump is doing to the lives of working Americans with his recent assault on unions and his corporatist takeover of the...
Background Briefing: September 2, 2018
American Fascism and the Politics of Us and Them We begin with the emergence of fascist politics in the United States under President Trump and get an analysis of why in countries around the world such as Hungary, Poland, Russia, India, Italy and Turkey,...
Background Briefing: August 30, 2018
Republicans Fast Track Kavanaugh Before He Is Properly Vetted We begin with the upcoming battle next week in the Senate to decide whether or not to confirm a new Supreme Court justice who has made it clear he wants to give presidents more power which many...
Background Briefing: August 29, 2018
Are GOP Donors Funding Conservative Democratic Candidates? We begin with the results of Tuesday’s primaries in Florida and Arizona and speak with a progressive activist Howie Klein who blogs at downwithtyranny.com and supports and advises progressive...
Background Briefing: August 28, 2018
Trump is Undermining the Rule of Law and Trust in Our Justice System We begin with growing concerns about the damage Donald Trump is doing to the rule of law and trust in the justice system in this country as he undermine the Department of Justice and attacks...
Background Briefing: August 27, 2018
Lessons From the Chicago Riots 50 Years Later On this 50th anniversary of the riots surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago we will begin with Marilyn Katz, a writer, consultant and long-time political activist. She was head of security for the...
Background Briefing: August 26, 2018
A Remembrance of Senator John McCain We begin with a remembrance of Senator John McCain who died on Saturday a few days short of his 82nd birthday and speak with Norm Ornstein, a contributing editor for The Atlantic and co-author of “One Nation After Trump: A...
Background Briefing: August 23, 2018
Trump is Putin’s Asset and In Debt to the Russian “Mafiya” We begin with the author of the explosive new book which makes the case that the man in the White House, Donald Trump, is an asset of the Putin government and is in debt to the Russian organized crime...
Background Briefing: August 22, 2018
A Veteran Investigator on the Trump Administrations Unprecedented Sleaze We begin with Jack Blum, a veteran of U.S. Senate investigations who uncovered the Lockheed bribery scandal the B.C.C.I bank scandal and the CIA-Contra cocaine connection. A Washington...