Background Briefing

Scott Horton / Stephen Kinzer / Alexander Cooley

The Normalization of Trump By the Press and Social Media, as Its Owners Bezos and Zuckerberg Move to Flatter Rather Than Fact-Check Him
At Today’s Rambling Press Conference, Trump Does Not Rule Out Military Force to Take Back the Panama Canal, Grab Greenland, and Make Canada the 51st State
Why is Trump Attacking Our Closest Allies, While Cozying up to Our Worst Adversaries?


Classrooms are places where teaching happens. What if they were also places of healing and justice-seeking? Tessa Hicks Peterson describes educational approaches that foster well-being, empowerment, and critical thinking. She also emphasizes the need for trauma-informed pedagogical practices. Tessa Hicks Peterson, Liberating the Classroom: Healing and Justice in Higher Education Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025


Law & Disorder

Supporting Immigrants in Berkeley as Trump Takes Power; Appeal Denial for Longest-Held US Death Row Prisoner Doug Stankewitz

On today’s show we speak with Marisa Almor with East Bay Sanctuary Covenant about what their organization is doing to support immigrants as we move into another US Trump presidency, anticipating anti-immigrant legislation and deportation regime. Marisa Almor speaks about two upcoming events at La Peña Cultural Center – the first on January 12, arming … Continued


Democracy Now!

Democracy Now 6am – January 7, 2025

On today’s show: The Militia and the Mole: Reporter Josh Kaplan on How a Freelance Vigilante Infiltrated U.S. Militias “Requiem for a Refugee Camp”: Mosab Abu Toha on Destruction of Jabaliya, Abduction of Doctors, and More Jimmy Carter’s “Decency & Humanity” Came with Deadly U.S. Policies in Latin America: Greg Grandin