
Background Briefing (5am)
5:00 AM PACIFIC TIME: TUESDAYS - FRIDAYS
Miles Taylor / John Nichols
What it is Like to Be An American Citizen Targeted by the Most Powerful Person in the World, Who is Accusing You of Treason For Speaking the Truth
Trump’s America: The United States of Cruelty
Robert Hockett / Oleh Kotsyuba / Mohsen Milani
Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Richest
Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin
Trump Pressures Iran to Sign or Get Bombed, Making a War That Will Not Be a Cakewalk More Likely
William Arkin / Halie Soifer / Johnathan Buma
The Pentagon’s Slow Learning Curve on Asymmetrical Warfare, Which Ukraine’s Attacks on Russian Bombers and the Kerch Bridge Just Demonstrated
The Latest Attacks on Jewish Americans As Our President, who Weaponizes Antisemitism, Continues to Signal his Antisemitic Leanings
A Former FBI Counterintelligence Whistleblower on the Wrecking of the FBI by Patel and Bongino
Michael Swaine / Ryan Cooper / George Packer
The Smallest Man With The Biggest Job in America Calls Out China in a Hegemonic Showdown
Trump and Musk’s Refugees From an Imaginary White Genocide
Part 2 of George Packer’s Atlantic Article on Our Next President: “The Talented Mr. Vance”
Aram Shabanian / Olga Lautman / Chris Hedges
How the Trump Wrecking Crew is Destroying Our Defense and National Security
The Media Falls for Trump’s Theatre While Ukraine Burns
A Pulitzer Prize-Winning NYT ME Bureau Chief and Veteran War Correspondent on Gaza
Daniel Treisman / Jacob Heilbrunn / David Victor
Trump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About How He Protects Putin
Musk, JD Vance, and Rubio Praise the German Neo-Nazi AfD Party, While the Trump Administration Weaponizes Anti-Semitism
The Impact of the U.S. Senate’s Republicans Revoking California’s Electric Car Mandate
Mike Konczal / Joseph Cirincione / Jacob Silverman
The Cruelest Cuts in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
Trump’s Golden Dome – A Massive Boondoggle and Payoff to Musk and Thiel
As Trump Monetizes His Presidency, Thanks to Crypto, His Family’s Net Worth Increased by $2.9 Billion to $ 5.4 Billion
Lucian Truscott IV / Bandy Lee / Anders Aslund
Trump’s Memorial Day and West Point Politicization of the Military
An Investigation of the Evident Deterioration of Trump’s Mental Health
Instead of Randomly Imposing Tariffs, The World’s Biggest Debtor Should Be Showing Some Humility Towards Its Creditors
Robert Johnson / Joan Williams
What Will the Senate Do With Trump’s Robin-Hood-In-Reverse “Big, Beautiful Bill”?
Why the Democratic Party’s “Brahmin Left” Lost America’s Working Men and Women, and How to Win Them Back
Rebecca Riddell / Steven Nabieu Rogers / Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
The 10 Richest Americans Made $365 Billion More in 2024, and Trump and the GOP Want to Give Them a Huge Tax Break
In an Oval Office Ambush of South Africa’s President, Trump Spewed Lies From Musk
More Conspiracy and Quackery From RFK Jr. Before Today’s Senate, as Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Wreck Science