3:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - THURSDAYS
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Trump’s Orwellian January 6 Victory – Four Years Later Lies Have Won and Truth is Endangered
Today’s Resignation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau After 9 Years in Office
The Need to Lift Sanctions on Syria Before Chaos Consumes a Failed State
The Latest on the Investigations Into the New Year’s Massacre in New Orleans and the Tesla Cyber Truck Explosion in Front of the Trump Hotel
Contrasting the Divisive Trump With Jimmy Carter, Who Tried to Bridge Divides
Could Trump be a Peacemaker, Even If He Only Wants to Win a Nobel Prize?
Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right-Wing Populism?
How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea of Citizenship in the U.S.
We Should Take Trump at His Word That He Wants to be a Dictator and Jail His Opponents and the Press
A Deep Investigation of the Far-Right Cult Opus Dei and Its Infiltration of American Politics at the Highest Level
With the Blame Game Underway, the Democrats Need to Focus on Accountability and a Coherent Strategy
A View From Abroad, as Biden Stands Between the Survival of Global Democracy and the Rule of Law and Dictatorship
Beyond Biden, America Has a Problem With Gerontocracy
How a Reality TV Star Living in His Own Reality Captured the GOP and up to Half of Americans Now Living in a Phony Reality
The Frightening Similarities Between Germany in 1933 and the U.S. in 2024
As Trump and Tucker Carlson Work For Putin to Kill Aid to Ukraine, Are They Traitors or Useful Idiots?
Trump’s Grift From God
A Christmas Day Message From Bethlehem
The Outsized Influence of the Catholic Far Right on the Supreme Court and Project 2025
The Contrast Between the Prophet of the Poor and Trump’s Billionaires, Who Own the White House and Have the Supreme Court
The Troubling Religious Beliefs of Trump’s Team of “Christian” Zionists
Trump’s Triumph of Lawlessness and the Weaponization of Kash Patel’s Federal Bureau of Retribution
Will Elon Musk’s Threat to Deploy His Unlimited Amounts of Campaign Money Bring All Republicans to Heel?
With Trump Back, Hate and Extremism Are on the Back Burner For Now
Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, as Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Orders
MAGA Republicans Follow Orban’s Model With Project 2025, While Trump Moves to Control the Media as Orban Did, Turning a Democracy Into a Kleptocracy and Dictatorship
