Background Briefing – March 26, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
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Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Background Briefing – March 25, 2025
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Fred Turner / Robert Suettinger
Musk’s Ungoverning Tactic of “Wreck Then Rob”
Inside the PRC’s Secretive Internal Leadership Struggles Between Reformers and Reactionaries
David Bateman / Ken Vogel / Alex Isenstadt
The MAGA Trump/Vance Takeover of American Education Using Money to Control Minds and Eradicate Intellectual Inquiry
Trump and the GOP Aim to Cripple the Left by Defunding Democrats
Vengeance Drives Trump As He Tears Down People and Institutions
Marci Shore / Michael Gorham / Henri Barkey
Could Massive Demonstrations Against Despots and Kleptocrats in Serbia and Hungary be a Model For the U.S. to Get Rid of Trump and Musk?
Russia Claims Victory After Trump’s Call With Putin, Who Paid No Price For Rejecting Trump’s Ceasefire Deal
Will Erdogan Get Away With the Brazen Jailing of the Leader of Turkey’s Opposition?
Omar El Akkad / David Faris / Simon Rosenberg
As Netanyahu Renews His War On Gaza, We Challenge the Comfort Zone of What is Happening in Distant Lands
As Musk and Trump Tear Through the Fabric of American Society, the Days of Choosing Between Gutless Liberals and Callous Conservatives are Over
What Kind of Opposition Will Emerge at This Critical Moment For the Survival of American Democracy?
Malcolm Nance / Aram Shabanian / Sidney Blumenthal
Is the Witting Russian Asset Trump Now Working For Moscow?
An Update on Ukraine’s Withdrawal From Kursk, the Result of Another Trump Gift to Putin
Fratricide Among Democrats After Schumer Fell Into Speaker Johnson’s Trap
David Enrich / James Galbraith / Ben Burgis
The Strategy Behind Trump’s War on the So-Called Legacy Media
An Assessment of How the Senate Democrats Might Extricate Themselves From the Government Shutdown Trap
Having Decided Chuck Schumer Is No Longer Jewish, Trump Conflates Terrorism, Anti-Semitism, and Anti-Americanism
Tom Mockaitis / Robert Creamer / Michael Swaine
With Trump Attacking Free Speech on Campuses, Should We Expect Patel and Bongino to Order the FBI to Round Up Trump’s Critics and Those on Patel’s Enemies List?
The Dilemma Senate Democrats Face Whether to Vote For a Bad Bill or Stand up to Trump and Musk and Risk a Government Shutdown
Trump’s Losing Strategy of Wooing Putin Away From Xi and Musk’s Outsized Influence Over China Policy
Matt Gold / Margo Schlanger / Mihir Desai
Trump’s Escalating Trade War Against Canada Has the Business Roundtable He’s Meeting With Nervous
Trump Tries to Deport a Student Protester With a Green Card He Labels as “Pro-Terrorist, Anti-Semitic and Anti-American”
As Tesla Stock Plunges by 40%, the World’s Richest Man is Beginning to Feel a Reversal of Fortune
Scott Horton / Anders Aslund / Michael Albertus
Trump’s March 6 Executive Order Signals His Revenge Tour is Underway With Bondi, Patel, Bongino, Ratcliffe, and Gabbard as the Executioners
An Update on How Ukraine is Surviving After Trump Cuts Off Intelligence And Arms
As Trump Eyes Canada, Greenland, and Gaza, Climate Change Will Lead to Land and Resource Grabs