Josh Paul / Lucian Truscott IV / Will Bunch
Too Little Too Late, Biden is Finally Ready to Stand Up to Israel
On Veterans Day, Will We Have Trump Wars and More American Veterans?
We are Entering America’s Strongman Era
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.”
James Thurber / Jeff Hauser / Michael Kazin
With Republicans Needing 7 and Democrats Needing 15 Seats to Flip the House, Will Trump End Up With the Trifecta of White House, Senate, and House?
The Frightening and Less Frightening Contenders for Trump’s White House and Cabinet Positions
Democrats Have Joined the Global Trend of Center Left Parties Losing to the Far Right
John Nichols / Lily Geismer / Charles Kupchan
Trump Won in a Landslide With 4 Million Fewer Votes Than 2020 While Harris won 66 Million, Far Less Than Biden’s 81 Million in 2020
The Education Divide, with Harris Winning the Educated and Trump the Less Educated
Will Trump and Vance’s “America First” Isolationism Define the Next 4 Years?
Jared Holt / Greg Palast / David Faris
Trump’s Not-So-Veiled Threat That “Bad Things Could Happen” If He Loses the Election
The Pernicious GOP Operation Underway to Purge Voter Rolls
Harris Needs to Win Big Because Trump’s GOP Will Cheat Rather Than Compete
David Daley / Austin Ahlman / Steven Harper
The Murdochs and Their Fox News Propagandists Are Laying the Groundwork For a New Civil War
A “Prairie Populist” in Nebraska is Campaigning the Way Democrats Should be in Red States
“Why is This Election Even Close?”
Justin Higgins / Sidney Blumenthal / Richard Briffault
The October Surprise as a Trump Self-Inflicted Wound
2024 Collusion Between Trump and Putin and Musk and Putin
The Supreme Court’s Latest Partisan Ruling Allows a Voter Purge in Virginia
Sarah Leah Whitson / Luis Martinez-Fernandez / Peter Montgomery
Israel’s Expulsion of UNRWA From Gaza Will Worsen an Already Dire Humanitarian Disaster
The Puerto Rican Vote After Trump’s Hate-Filled Rally He Called a “Love Fest”
Apparently Trump’s “Christians” No Longer “Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself”
Anne Nelson / David Cay / Lincoln Mitchell
Trump and His Warm-up Acts Spew Racist Hatred at Sunday’s Madison Square Garden Rally
Billionaires and CEOs Suck Up to Trump, Hedging Their Bets in Fear of Retribution
The Disputed Election Results in the Former Soviet State of Georgia
Aram Shabanian / Victor Pickard / Jonathan Alter
What Does North Korea Get in Return For Sending Cannon Fodder to Ukraine?
Another South African Billionaire, the Owner of the LA Times, Comes to the Aid of Donald Trump
This Election as a Reckoning on Whether America Has Abandoned Democracy for Dictatorship Under the Spell of a Convicted Felon and Serial Liar
Lydia Camarillo / Steven Greenhouse / Alexander Stille
How the Latino and Latina Vote Will Decide the Election, and Trump’s Latest Racist Slur at Mexicans
As Trump Tries to Win the Votes of Workers, His Anti-Worker Record is Glaring
A Scholar of Fascism and Italy, Where Fascism Began, On Trump’s Former Chief of Staff’s Comment That Trump “Fits Into the General Definition of Fascist”