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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Nov 7, 2024 • 1h 4min
November 7, 2024 - James Thurber | Jeff Hauser | Michael Kazin
With Republicans Needing 7 and Democrats Needing 15 Seats to Flip the House, Will Trump End Up With the Trifecta of White House, Senate and House? | The Frightening and Less Frightening Contenders for Trump's White House and Cabinet Positions | Democrats Have Joined the Global Trend of Left and Social Democratic Parties Losing to the Far Right
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Nov 6, 2024 • 1h 3min
November 6, 2024 - John Nichols | Lily Geismer | Charles Kupchan
Trump Won in a Landslide With 4 Million Fewer Votes Than 2020 While Harris Won 66 Million, Far Less Than Biden's 81 Million in 2020 | The Education Divide With Harris Winning the Educated and Trump the Less Educated | Will Trump and Vance's "America First" Isolationism Define the Next 4 Years?
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Nov 5, 2024 • 1h 1min
November 5, 2024 - Alexander Sammon | Eoghan Gilmartin | Andrew Davis & Jeff Biggers
$12.32 Billion Will Be Spent on This Election, Most of Which Goes to the Big Media Companies | Hundreds Died in Spain In What Was Not Just a Natural Disaster | The Issue Not Discussed in This Election, Nuclear Disarmament
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Nov 4, 2024 • 1h 2min
November 4, 2024 - Jared Holt | Greg Palast | David Faris
Trump's Not-So-Veiled Threat That "Bad Things Could Happen" If He Loses the Election | The Pernicious GOP Operation Underway by Partisan Vigilantes to Purge Voter Rolls | Kamala May Win Big and She Has to Because Trump's GOP Will Cheat Rather Than Compete
Nov 3, 2024 • 1h 1min
November 3, 2024 - Joshua Dyck | Karen Greenberg | Adele Stan
Cynical Preparations Underway to Get the MAGA Faithful to Believe an Assured Victory Was Stolen Again | With Trump and Murdoch etc. Having Made Half of America Hate the Other Half, Putin is Already the Winner of the Election | Trump's Promise to America's Women "Whether They Like It Or Not"
Oct 31, 2024 • 60min
October 31, 2024 - David Daley | Austin Ahlman | Steven Harper
The Murdochs and Their Fox News Propagandists Are Laying the Groundwork For a New Civil War | A "Prairie Populist" in Nebraska is Campaigning the Way Democrats Should be in Red States | "Why is This Election Even Close?"
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Oct 30, 2024 • 59min
October 30, 2024 - Justin Higgins | Sidney Blumenthal | Richard Briffault
The October Surprise As a Trump Self-Inflicted Wound | 2024 Collusion Between Trump and Putin and Musk and Putin | The Supreme Court's Latest Partisan Ruling Allowing a Voter Purge in Virginia
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Oct 29, 2024 • 60min
October 29, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Luis Martínez-Fernández | Peter Montgomery
Israel's Expulsion of UNRWA From Gaza Will Worsen an Already Dire Humanitarian Disaster | The Puerto Rican Vote After Trump's Hate-Filled Rally He Called a "Love Fest" | Apparently Trump's "Christians" No Longer "Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself"
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Oct 28, 2024 • 1h 4min
October 28, 2024 - Anne Nelson | David Cay Johnston | Lincoln Mitchell
Trump and His Warm-up Acts Spew Racist Hatred at Sunday's Madison Square Garden Rally | Billionaires and CEOs Suck Up to Trump Hedging Their Bets in Fear of Retribution | The Disputed Election Results in the Former Soviet State of Georgia
Oct 27, 2024 • 1h 3min
October 27, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | James Risen | Jeffrey Winters
Reactions to Israel's Retaliation Against Iran Appear to Indicate a Winding Down of Escalation | The Press Allows Trump to Be Lawless While Expecting Harris to be Flawless | Will the Election be Won by the Billionaire Tech Bros or Will the American People Save Our Democracy?
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