Paul Pillar / Nancy Okail
How the Islamist Capture of Syria Upends Regional and Global Geopolitics
How Americans Need an Alternative to the Choice Between Trump’s “America First” Unilateralism and Biden’s “America is Back” Nostalgia
Background Briefing
3:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - THURSDAYS
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Eric Kingson / Richard Beck
“It’s Going to Be Fun” Says Ramaswamy, Who Along With Musk Will Try to Cut $2 Trillion By Targeting Social Security and Medicare
How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea Of Citizenship in the U.S.
Sarah Anderson / Joshua Landis / Stavroula Pabst
The Champion of Working Class Voters’ Big Con, As Trump Forms a Government Of, By, and For Plutocrats
The Syria Rebels Just Blew Up Secret U.S.-Israel-UAE Efforts to Lure Assad Away From Iran
What Trump’s Pick of Feinberg as Number Two at DOD Means For the Silicon Valley Defense Tech Takeover of the Pentagon Budget
Stephen Noerper / Juan Cole / David Shapiro
South Korea’s President Yoon Declares Martial Law Then Has to Back Down
Trump Threatens There’ll Be “All Hell To Pay in the Middle East” If Hamas Does Not Release the Hostages Before His Inauguration
Will the Apolitical Rank and File at the FBI Survive a Fanatical Pro-Trump Ideologue as Their Director?
Robert Kuttner / William Arkin / Steven Simon
If the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard, and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed
Trump’s Envoy To Ukraine, General Kellogg, and His Plan to End the War
With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gains
Harry Litman / Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis / Jon Rosenthal
Jack Smith Leaves Trump’s Many Crimes to the Judgement of History
A Third Reconstruction Based on Moral Values Like a Living Wage and Health Care
A Third Woman Died in Texas While Doctors Stood by Unable to Treat Her Because of the State’s Cruel Abortion Laws
Harry Litman / Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis / Jon Rosenthal
Jack Smith Leaves Trump’s Many Crimes to the Judgement of History
A Third Reconstruction Based on Moral Values Like a Living Wage and Health Care
A Third Woman Died in Texas While Doctors Stood by Unable to Treat Her Because of the State’s Cruel Abortion Laws
Scott Kennedy / Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera / Habib Battah
Trump Declares a Day One Trade War on China, Mexico, and Canada
Tariffs on Mexico Will Not Solve Immigration or Drug Consumption in the U.S.
An Update on the Ceasefire Deal Between Israel and Hezbollah
Tom Mockaitis / James Green / Stephen Biddle
Trump’s Choice to Head the DOD Sees Half the Country as the Enemy and Expects Civil War
The Arrest of Coup Plotters in Brazil is a Warning For a Military Takeover That Could Happen Here
Putin’s Latest Nuclear Saber Rattling as NATO Crosses Its Red Lines
James Zirin / Richard Falk / Craig Holman
Gaetz Withdraws Attorney General Nomination, as Trump’s Pentagon Choice Faces Sexual Assault Allegations
The International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu, His Former Defense Minister, and an Hamas Leader Presumed Dead
An Update on the House Vote To Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Nonprofits