Background Briefing (Monday, 5am)

07.07.25 - 5:00am

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This hour broadcasts the show produced by Background Briefing with Ian Masters on Sunday.

06.30.25 - 5:00am

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Welcome to One Party Rule As SCOTUS Removes the Last Check on Trump
We Are Back in the 1850s, With ICE Repeating the Cruelty of the Fugitive Slave Act
There Was a Respectable Right Before Trump’s MAGA Took Over the GOP

06.23.25 - 5:00am

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Now that U.S. Bombs Have Fallen on Iran, What We Know and Don’t Know About Iran’s Secret Nuclear Program
Trump, the Triumphant and Imperial President at Home and the Emperor Abroad

06.16.25 - 5:00am

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MAGA Political Hatred Has Moved From Talk to Action, With the Assassination of Democratic Lawmakers in Minnesota
Raining on Trump’s Parade, as Our Fuhrer Takes the Stand to Review the Troops Like the Dictators He Admires
Trump on the Sidelines as Israel Wages War on Iran, With Netanyahu Promising Regime Change

06.09.25 - 5:00am

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More Tabloid Headlines From a Tabloid Presidency, As the Marriage of Wealth and Power Between Two Infantile Ego-Maniacs Heads For Divorce
Political Activism Versus Centrist Pragmatism: The Choices Facing the Moribund Democratic Party in New York City’s Mayoral Race
Trump Claims Putin is “Tapping Him Along,” But is Trump Stringing Us All Along?

06.02.25 - 5:00am

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President TACO Zig-Zags on Tariffs, as the Senate Takes Up His “Big, Beautiful Bill,” Which Some Republicans Want to Cut More and Others Cut Less
Trump Calls Leonard Leo a “Sleazebag” and Regrets Following the Advice of the Federalist Society
The Growing Possibility Our Next President Will Be J.D. Vance Before Trump’s Term is Up

05.26.25 - 5:00am

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Netanyahu Blames the Leaders of the UK, France, and Canada For the Murders of Young Israeli Diplomats in DC
A Path Forward For Those Who Want to Stop the Killing of Innocents
The Ongoing Humanitarian Nightmare in Gaza

05.19.25 - 5:00am

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Putin Plays Trump Again by Not Showing Up For Farcical “Peace” Talks in Istanbul
A Report From Kyiv on How Much Ukrainians Want Peace, But Not Surrender on Putin’s Terms
The Death Toll In Gaza Reaches 53,272, As Trump Plans to Send a Million Gazans to War-torn Libya

05.12.25 - 5:00am

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Manhandling Congresswomen and Arresting a Mayor Makes it Clear We Already Have an Authoritarian Government
As Stephen Miller Talks of Suspending Habeas Corpus, Justices Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson Warn it is Time to Stand Up
The Law is Being Put to the Test by a Lawless President Who Has Been Given Immunity by a Supreme Court Captured by Right Wing Billionaires

05.05.25 - 5:00am

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Trump’s Budget Cuts the Well-Being of American People While Boosting Exclusion, Retribution, and Destruction
Trump Defunds PBS and NPR in His War Against the Truth and Facts
The World Turns Against Us, as First Canadians and Now Australians Vote Against Pro-Trump Candidates