
Background Briefing with 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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Latest episodes

Jul 15, 2024 • 1h 1min
July 15, 2024 - Geoffrey Kabaservice | Michael Greenberger | Kim Lane Scheppele
Trump's Judge Dismisses the Most Winnable Case Against Him Taking Her Cue From Justice Thomas | J.D. Vance, the Authoritarian Brains Behind a Trump Dictatorship | Orban Has Invited China Into Europe as He Acts as a Courier For Secret Messages From Putin and Xi to Trump
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Jul 14, 2024 • 1h 3min
July 14, 2024 - Robert Baer | Sean Wilentz | Jared Yates Sexton
Assassinations That Changed the World or Might Have Changed the World | America's Historical Legacy of Presidential Assassinations and Attempted Assassinations | The Inciter of Political Violence Now Calls For Unity as He Moves Closer to Joining the Illiberal Club of the World's Despots and Kleptocrats
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Jul 11, 2024 • 1h 2min
July 7, 2024 - Gil Duran | Arash Azizi
A Former Press Secretary to Kamala Harris on Who Could Best Beat Trump as Divisions Among Democrats Intensify While Republicans Can't Get Enough of Their Candidate's Depravity and Dementia | An Assessment of the So-Called Reformist President of Iran and What He Means For Women, Life, Freedom
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Jul 10, 2024 • 1h 1min
July 10, 2024 - Christopher Whipple | Bhaskar Sunkara | Elle Reeve
Insight Into Biden's Inner Circle Resisting Growing Calls For Him to Step Down | Shifting the Focus to Trump and His Scary GOP Party Platform | A Journalist Who Has Taken on the Nazis at Charlottesville and Was at Risk Inside the Angry Mob That Stormed the Capitol On Trump's Far-Right Capture of American Politics
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Jul 9, 2024 • 1h 3min
July 9, 2024 - Bill Scher | James Goldgeier | Natalie Melnyczuk
As Biden and the Democrats Circle the Wagons, Concerns Persist in the Rest of the Country, Meanwhile Trump Gets a Free Pass in the Media | The 75th Anniversary of NATO at a Washington Summit Concerned About Biden and Afraid Trump Could be Reelected | While NATO is Not Ready For Ukraine to Join, Will it Sustain Ukraine Over the Long Haul?
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Jul 8, 2024 • 1h 4min
July 8, 2024 - Simon Rosenberg | David Andelman | Francis Kagaru
Biden's Defiance As We Learn a Parkinson's Expert Visited the White House 8 Times in 8 Months | The Far Right Comes in Third In France as Le Pen Joins Forces With Orban to Form the Third Largest Bloc in the European Parliament | An Update From Kenya on the Bloody Demonstrations Against a Government Sending Police to Haiti When They Are Needed at Home
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Jul 7, 2024 • 1h
July 7, 2024 - Rick Perlstein | Andrew Feinberg | David Schultz
Should Biden Follow the Example of George Washington? | The Washington Gerontocracy | Will a Fresh Face Bring Back Younger Democratic Voters?
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Jul 4, 2024 • 59min
July 4, 2024 - Sarah Churchwell | Lawrence Douglas
A View From Abroad as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship | Even If Biden Could be Convinced to Step Down Soon, He Would Be Making Himself a Lame Duck President
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Jul 3, 2024 • 1h
July 3, 2024 - Sam Rosenfeld | James Henry
A Historical Assessment of How the Major Political Parties Have Become Hollow Shells | Will the Conviction of a Former Trump Business Partner Who Laundered Millions Into Trump Real Estate Revive the Trump/Russia Collusion?
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Jul 2, 2024 • 1h 2min
July 2, 2024 - Robert Hockett | Charles Kupchan | Abner Greene
The Supreme Court Has Handed the Criminal Trump a Loaded Gun, Might Biden Also Use it? | How the Shift to the Right in Europe Could Impact the War in Ukraine | The Other Alarming SCOTUS Decision Overshadowed by the Ruling to Give Trump a License to Kill
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