Frank Vogl / Will Bunch / Laurence Rees
The Unprecedented Monetizing of the Oval Office by the Most Corrupt President in U.S. History
How the Trump Mafia Family’s Extortion Can be Stopped
Understanding the Nazi Mind and How it Applies to Trump
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.”
Guy Ziv / Paul Blumenthal / Michael Kimmage
Netanyahu’s Plan to “Capture” Gaza Is a Death Sentence For the Remaining Hostages
Does Trump Want to Repeal the 20th Century or is He Following the Plan of the Oligarchs Who Backed His Reelection?
What If America Abandons Ukraine, the Linchpin of European Security?
Jacob Heilbrunn / James Liebman / Eric Blanc
Trump’s Reality TV Reshuffle of His National Security Team
SCOTUS Appears Poised to Smash Through the Wall Separating Church and State to Force Taxpayers to Subsidize Religious Indoctrination
On This May Day, How Unions Would Be the Only Way Reindustrialized American Factory Workers Could Make a Living Wage to Support a Family
Christine Fair / Sidney Blumenthal / Paul Pillar
Two Nuclear Powers — India and Pakistan — are Poised to Go To War
Trump’s 100th Day and the Record-Breaking Collapse of His Poll Numbers
Today’s 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, Which Trump is Boycotting While Slapping 46% Tariffs on Vietnam
Andrew Latham / Rick Perlstein / Greg Grandin
Thanks to Trump’s Bullying, Bluster, and Bombast the Liberals Won In Canada
A Presidential Historian on Trump’s 100-Day Reign of Ruin
The Intertwined Two Americas, as the Colossus of the North Exports State Terror to the South
Lisa DeMio / Moira Donegan / Sean Wilentz
Governor Pritzker Wows Democrats in the Key New Hampshire Primary State
Thiel, Musk, and Vance’s Pro-Natalist Movement Wants More Superior White Children
The Historical Comparisons Between Hitler’s Rapid Extinction of German Democracy and Trump’s First 100 Days
Jacob Heilbrunn / Jameel Jaffer / David Graham
Why Should Putin Accept Trump’s Peace Deal When He Can Wait for Him to Walk Away as Promised?
One-By-One News Organizations are Caving to Trump’s Extortion
Inside Project 2025 and the Right-Wing Zealots and Culture Warriors Who Crafted the Roadmap For Trump
Fred Turner / Olga Lautman
The Incredible Shrinking Billionaire Who is Destroying Our Government Blames Tesla’s Sales Slump on “Paid” Demonstrators
Vance Announces a Shameful Sellout Of Ukraine, Allowing Russia to Conquer and Subjugate What Putin Could Not Win on the Battlefield
J.W. Mason / Kate McElwee / Malcolm Harris
Trump’s Self-Inflicted Wound on Our Economy, as Overseas Investors Retreat From Treasuries and the Dollar
An Update From Rome on the Conclave with Cardinals From the Global South in the Mix for a New Pope
On This Earth Day, Strategies for Collective Political Action to Make Climate Change the Unifying Crisis of Our Time
Kenneth Briggs / Frances Kissling / Lawrence Korb
Sadness Around the World at the Death of a Good Man, Pope Francis
A Tolerant and Empathetic Pope and the Reactionary Male-Dominated Institution He Headed
Another Scandal From the White Nationalist TV Host Heading the Pentagon