Gregory Treverton / Jeff Wise
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
Background Briefing
3:00 PM PACIFIC TIME: MONDAYS - THURSDAYS
Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Amesh Adalja / Peter Katona / Mae Ngai
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
Michelle García / Sam Quinones / Thomas Berger
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?
Dharna Noor / Herb Lin / Natalie Melnyczuk
Trump’s Embrace of the Fossil Fuel Industry, Which Spent $445 Million to Elect Him and the Republican Congress
China’s DeepSeek AI Model Threatens U.S. Dominance, as Tech Stocks Tumble
Will Trump Fall For Putin’s Flattery?
Gil Duran / George Beebe / William Hartung
A Manifesto to Stand Up in the Face Of Trump’s Firehose of Reactionary Initiatives
Trump Threatens to Sanction Putin and Calls on OPEC to Lower Oil Prices to Force Russia to End Its War On Ukraine
The Tech-Industrial Complex’s Plans to Capture the Defense Budget
Anthea Butler / Loch Johnson / Craig Unger
A Real Christian Confronts Trump, Unlike the Christo-Fascists and Evangelical Hucksters Who Worship the False Idol
Trump’s Choices to Head American Intelligence Might As Well Have Been Chosen By Putin
The Treason That Helped Elect Nixon, Reagan, and Trump
Michael Podhorzer / Elizabeth Goitein / Spencer Sunshine
How the Roberts Court Laid the Groundwork For a Plutocratic and Theocratic Takeover of American Democracy
Trump’s Plans From 1798 Law to Use the U.S. Military Against Migrants and Drug Cartels
In Releasing Jailed Militia Leaders, Is Trump Following Mussolini and Hitler’s Playbook of a “Blackshirt” and “Brownshirt” Assault on Democracy?
Allen Frances / Sidney Blumenthal / Molly White
Today Trump Issued a Death Sentence to Our Children and Grandchildren
The Unreality of the Reality TV Star Spewing Lies as Promises
The Crypto Grift of $Trump, Even Before He Became the Grifter-in-Chief
Steven Simon / Quinn Slobodian
An Analysis of the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal
Biden’s Warning of a New American Oligarchy and the Danger of a Tech-Industrial Complex
Charles Kupchan / Elliott Negin / Corey Brettschneider
What Latitude Will “Little Marco” Have As Secretary of State?
The Confirmation of the Pay-to-Play Pam Bondi For Attorney General
Trump’s Grossly Unqualified Wrecking Crew Is Aimed at Deconstructing the American State to Serve the Plutocrats Not the People