Background Briefing with Ian Masters
Ian Masters
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues.
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Dec 31, 2024 • 1h 18min
December 31, 2024 - Jason Stanley | Gareth Gore | Timothy Shenk
We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press | A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Level | With the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategy
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Dec 30, 2024 • 1h 15min
December 30, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Samuel Moyn | Steve Benen
A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy | How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and up to Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality
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Dec 29, 2024 • 1h 27min
December 29, 2024 - Miles Taylor | Oona Hathaway | Nick Bryant
As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | Strengthening the Laws of War as Non-combatants Die in Gaza and Ukraine | The Inevitability of Trump 250 Years in the Making With the U.S. Captive to Its Contentious Past
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Dec 25, 2024 • 1h 1min
December 25, 2024 - Rev. Mitri Raheb | James Carroll
A Christmas Day Message From Bethlehem | The Outsized Influence of the Catholic Far Right on the Supreme Court and Project 2025
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Dec 24, 2024 • 60min
December 24, 2024 - Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis | Diane Winston
The Contrast Between the Prophet of the Poor and Trump's Billionaires Who Own the White House and Have the Supreme Court | The Troubling Religious Beliefs of Trump's Team of "Christian" Zionists
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Dec 23, 2024 • 1h 6min
December 23, 2024 - Lisa Graves | John Nichols | Wendy Via
Trump's Triumph of Lawlessness and the Weaponization of Kash Patel's Federal Bureau of Retribution | Will Elon Musk's Threat to Deploy His Unlimited Amounts of Campaign Money Bring All Republicans to Heel? | With Trump Back Hate and Extremism Are on the Back Burner For Now
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Dec 22, 2024 • 1h 1min
December 22, 2024 - Robert Hockett | James Thurber | Robert Benson
The Emerging Threat to the US Economy Trump and Musk's Amateurism Poses | An Even More Dysfunctional Congress With Trump and Musk in Charge of Both Houses? | The Foreign Policy Damage Musk is Already Doing
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Dec 19, 2024 • 60min
December 19, 2024 - Brooke Harrington | Kim Lane Scheppele
Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Orders | MAGA Republicans Follow Orban's Model With Project 2025 While Trump Moves to Control the Media as Orban Did, Turning a Democracy Into a Kleptocracy and Dictatorship
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Dec 18, 2024 • 1h 1min
December 18, 2024 - Alexander Sammon | Thomas Mockaitis | Christopher Shaw
The Democratic Old Guard Shoots Down a Rising Star Who Appeals to the Youth and Latino Vote | An expert on Terrorism on Charging Luigi Mangione With Terrorism | Jeff Bezos Bends the Knee Today at Mar a Lago as Trump Muses About Privatizing the USPS
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Dec 17, 2024 • 1h 3min
December 17, 2024 - Paul Waldman | Jonathan Metzl | Suzanne Schneider
As Trump Declares War on the Press, ABC News Preemptively Capitulates | The Latest of 323 School Shooting This Year Involves a 15-Year Old Girl Who Killed 2, Wounded 6 and Shot Herself at Her Christian School | Our "Christo-Fascists" Compared to the Islamo-Fascists We Decry
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