Background Briefing: January 7, 2024
An Historian Who Had Lunch With the President on Wednesday Ahead of Biden's Opening Campaign Speech of 2024 at Valley Forge We begin with President Biden's opening campaign speech in the 2024 election on Friday at Valley Forge, the historic site of the Revolutionary...
Background Briefing: January 3, 2024
Will the Bombings in Iran Following Yesterday's Killing of an Hamas Official Spark a Wider War? We begin with bombings in Iran that killed over 100 and wounded over 200 observing the 4th anniversary of the US drone strike that killed the head of Iran's Quds...
Background Briefing: January 2, 2024
Will Israel's Killing of the Hamas Ambassador to Hezbollah Trigger a Wider War? We begin with the assassination by an Israeli drone of a top Hamas official in Beirut which is bound to inflame an already tinderbox situation that could lead to a war between Israel and...
Background Briefing: January 1, 2024
The Foreign Policy Landscape Ahead in 2024 and the Chance For Peace in a World at War We begin with an overview of the foreign policy landscape in 2023 and what might be in store in 2024 as wars rage and the search for peace seems daunting. Joining us is Stephen...
Background Briefing: December 31, 2023
Politics in the Year Ending and the Critical Year About to Begin We begin on this New Year's Eve with an analysis of the year we are ending and the critical year about to begin as the political realignment in this country changes with the previously...
Background Briefing: December 28, 2023
How to Save American Democracy From the Trump 2.0 Revenge Machine We begin as this year ends with selected programs from our archives following yesterday's coverage of events from the middle of the year, today we will cover stories from later in the year before...
Background Briefing: December 27, 2023
Growing Concern at the Supreme Court’s Impunity From Ethical Norms as Its Credibility With the Public Plunges We begin as this year ends with selected programs from our archives following yesterday's coverage of events from early in the year, today we cover...
Background Briefing: December 26, 2023
A History of Paranoid Fantasies and Today’s Rise of Fascism Led by a Reality TV Star We begin as this year ends with selected programs from our archive starting today with events early in the year, then tomorrow stories from the middle of the year then on Thursday's...
Background Briefing: December 25, 2023
Background Briefing with Ian Masters · December 25, 2023 - Aziz Rana | Lisa Graves America's Foundation as a Christian Nation and How the Right Captured Freedom We begin on this Christmas Day as Christians celebrate the birth of the prophet Jesus with the country's...
Background Briefing: December 24, 2023
As Christians Celebrate Christmas, a Christian Nationalist With a Smug and Sanctimonious Smile Wants to Undo the First Amendment We begin on this Christmas Eve as Christians celebrate the birth of the prophet Jesus with an appraisal of the relationship between...