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
Background Briefing (5am)
5:00 AM PACIFIC TIME: TUESDAYS - FRIDAYS
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
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
Alexander Motyl / Asher Kaufman / Patrick Bond
Trump’s Deference to Putin and His Unwillingness to Press For a Ceasefire and Sanction Russia Stuns European Leaders
As the UK, France, and Canada Condemn Israel’s Gaza Offensive and the Starving of Children, Trump Does Not Come To Netanyahu’s Defense
A South African Perspective on Trump’s Welcoming of Its White “Refugees”
George Beebe / Natalie Melnyczuk / Casey Michel
Trump’s Phone Call Today With Putin and the Need For More Than Russia/Ukraine Ceasefire
A Ukrainian Nato Official’s Perspective on Trump’s Conversations With the Warring Parties
Trump and Family Have Elevated Corruption to an Industrial Scale
Alan Morrison / Gabriel Chin / Gregory Treverton
Trump is Using the Birthright Citizenship Case to Get the Supreme Court to Stop Federal Judges From Blocking His Agenda Nationwide
The History of Birthright Citizenship Which Has been Settled Law Since 1898
Russia’s “Girlfriend” Tulsi Gabbard is Neutering the IC, as MAGAworld Makes America Deaf, Dumb, and Blind When it Comes to What is Happening in the Real World
Joshua Landis / Nader Hashemi / Angela Stent
Trump Lifts Sanctions on Syria Calling Its New Leader, a Former Islamic State Fighter, “a Young Attractive Guy”
A Judge Orders ICE to Release Another Wrongly-Detained Scholar Held for 8 Weeks in Detention in Texas
Will Putin Show Up for Peace Talks? / Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intel Officials for Speaking Truth to Power
Sarah Leah Whitson / Jon Hoffman / Alex Lawson
Trump Signs a $142 Billion Weapons Deal In Saudi Arabia, Not the Peace Deal With Putin He Expected To Sign, But He Still Hopes to Sign a Deal With Iran
As Trump Throws His Lot in With Rich Arabs, How Much is Netanyahu Out in the Cold?
The Good “Christians” Speaker Johnson and the OMB’s Vought Are Working Tirelessly to Hurt the Poor and Reward the Rich
Scott Horton / Paul Pierson
Whistleblower Reveals Russian Recruitment of Musk and Thiel
The Mismatch Between Our Constitution and Weaponized Partisan Politics
Massimo Faggioli / Jane Via / Jeff Wise
The 267th Pope is an American and a Peruvian Citizen Who Spent 2 Decades in Peru as a Missionary
A Roman Catholic Woman Priest on the Men-Only Cardinal’s Choice of Pope Leo XIV
Is It Safe To Fly After Musk Gutted the FAA and a Reality TV President Chose a Reality TV Secretary of Transportation?
Annelle Sheline / Sumit Ganguly / Faith Williams
After Claiming the Houthis Have Cried Uncle, Will Trump Announce a Nuclear Deal With Iran, While in Saudi Arabia Next Week?
Tit-For-Tat Military Strikes by India and Pakistan Appear Performative Not Escalatory
Musk’s Alarming Plan to Build a Single Centralized Database for All the Confidential Government Data DOGE has Scooped Up