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Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Hegseth Gives Up Ukraine’s Leverage Before Russia/Ukraine Peace Talks Begin
Is the Trump Administration Already Capitulating to Putin?
An Assessment of the Awkward Meeting Between Jordan’s King Abdullah and Trump
The Frightening Pace at Which the United States is Embracing Authoritarianism
Why is it Trump’s Priority to Attack Allies Like Canada While Cozying up to Enemies Like Putin?
Technocrats Are Purging Bureaucrats to Grab Data, Control Funds, Weaken Government, Cut Services and Install Loyalists to the Dear Leader
The One-Two Punch of Plutocracy and Theocracy Taking Over the Country
The Tinderbox in Eastern Congo Threatening a Regional War
Government Workers Should Not Fall For the Musk/Trump Buyout Trick
The Moral Authoritarian and Billionaire Worshipping Author of Project 2025 About to Head the OMB
Collusion Between the Far Right and American Policing is About to Get Worse Under Trump, Bondi, and Kash Patel
Netanyahu Meets With the Christian Zionist “Crusader” at the Pentagon, Where Top Officials Want to Get Out of the Middle East Quagmire
A Palestinian Perspective on Trump’s U.S.-Owned Gaza as a “Riviera of the Middle East”
The Growing Alarm at Musk Having Every American’s Social Security Number, Address, Email, Income, and Personal Details
The Fatal Combination of a Mentally Ill President and a Mentally Deranged Billionaire Out to Destroy Our Government and Democracy
Stopping the Deadly Fentanyl Trade in Mexico, China, and Now India
The Folly of a Trade War With China and a Saner Way To Ease Tensions
Trump’s Lawless, Petty, and Vindictive Purge of the Justice Department and FBI
Musk and Trump’s Shock and Awe Campaign to Wreck and Loot the U.S. Government
Trump Slaps Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, in a Dangerous and Misguided Frenzy of America First Nationalism
Republican Senators Who Know Better Appear to Roll Over For Trump, Poised to Confirm the Disastrous Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard
Rather Than Fix the FAA, Our Reality TV President Blames DEI For the Potomac Plane Crash
Will Republican Senators Watch the Video Caroline Kennedy Sent Them Describing Her Cousin RFK Jr. as a “Predator?”
RFK Jr. and the Spread of Medical Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories
Trump Has Already Violated His Oath of Office on the 14th Amendment Birthright and the Funding Freeze He Had to Rescind
Trump’s Reality TV Theatre of Cruelty Underway
Trump Will Hurt the Construction Industry, Now in Demand to Rebuild Houses Lost to Hurricanes and Wildfires
Can Musk Buy Elections in the UK and Germany As He Just Did Here?
