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Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Trump Lifts Sanctions on Syria Calling Its New Leader, a Former Islamic State Fighter, “a Young Attractive Guy”
A Judge Orders ICE to Release Another Wrongly-Detained Scholar Held for 8 Weeks in Detention in Texas
Will Putin Show Up for Peace Talks? / Tulsi Gabbard Fires Top Intel Officials for Speaking Truth to Power
Trump Signs a $142 Billion Weapons Deal In Saudi Arabia, Not the Peace Deal With Putin He Expected To Sign, But He Still Hopes to Sign a Deal With Iran
As Trump Throws His Lot in With Rich Arabs, How Much is Netanyahu Out in the Cold?
The Good “Christians” Speaker Johnson and the OMB’s Vought Are Working Tirelessly to Hurt the Poor and Reward the Rich
Whistleblower Reveals Russian Recruitment of Musk and Thiel
The Mismatch Between Our Constitution and Weaponized Partisan Politics
The 267th Pope is an American and a Peruvian Citizen Who Spent 2 Decades in Peru as a Missionary
A Roman Catholic Woman Priest on the Men-Only Cardinal’s Choice of Pope Leo XIV
Is It Safe To Fly After Musk Gutted the FAA and a Reality TV President Chose a Reality TV Secretary of Transportation?
After Claiming the Houthis Have Cried Uncle, Will Trump Announce a Nuclear Deal With Iran, While in Saudi Arabia Next Week?
Tit-For-Tat Military Strikes by India and Pakistan Appear Performative Not Escalatory
Musk’s Alarming Plan to Build a Single Centralized Database for All the Confidential Government Data DOGE has Scooped Up
The Unprecedented Monetizing of the Oval Office by the Most Corrupt President in U.S. History
How the Trump Mafia Family’s Extortion Can be Stopped
Understanding the Nazi Mind and How it Applies to Trump
Netanyahu’s Plan to “Capture” Gaza Is a Death Sentence For the Remaining Hostages
Does Trump Want to Repeal the 20th Century or is He Following the Plan of the Oligarchs Who Backed His Reelection?
What If America Abandons Ukraine, the Linchpin of European Security?
Two Nuclear Powers — India and Pakistan — are Poised to Go To War
Trump’s 100th Day and the Record-Breaking Collapse of His Poll Numbers
Today’s 50th Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon, Which Trump is Boycotting While Slapping 46% Tariffs on Vietnam
Thanks to Trump’s Bullying, Bluster, and Bombast the Liberals Won In Canada
A Presidential Historian on Trump’s 100-Day Reign of Ruin
The Intertwined Two Americas, as the Colossus of the North Exports State Terror to the South
Governor Pritzker Wows Democrats in the Key New Hampshire Primary State
Thiel, Musk, and Vance’s Pro-Natalist Movement Wants More Superior White Children
The Historical Comparisons Between Hitler’s Rapid Extinction of German Democracy and Trump’s First 100 Days
