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Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
$12.32 Billion Will Be Spent on This Election, Most of Which Goes to the Big Media Companies
Hundreds Died in Spain in What Was Not Just a Natural Disaster
The Issue Not Discussed in This Election, Nuclear Disarmament
Trump’s Not-So-Veiled Threat That “Bad Things Could Happen” If He Loses the Election
The Pernicious GOP Operation Underway to Purge Voter Rolls
Harris Needs to Win Big Because Trump’s GOP Will Cheat Rather Than Compete
The Murdochs and Their Fox News Propagandists Are Laying the Groundwork For a New Civil War
A “Prairie Populist” in Nebraska is Campaigning the Way Democrats Should be in Red States
“Why is This Election Even Close?”
The October Surprise as a Trump Self-Inflicted Wound
2024 Collusion Between Trump and Putin and Musk and Putin
The Supreme Court’s Latest Partisan Ruling Allows a Voter Purge in Virginia
Israel’s Expulsion of UNRWA From Gaza Will Worsen an Already Dire Humanitarian Disaster
The Puerto Rican Vote After Trump’s Hate-Filled Rally He Called a “Love Fest”
Apparently Trump’s “Christians” No Longer “Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself”
Reactions to Israel’s Retaliation Against Iran Appear to Indicate a Winding Down of Escalation
The Press Allows Trump to Be Lawless, While Expecting Harris to be Flawless
Will the Election be Won by the Billionaire Tech Bros, or Will the American People Save Our Democracy?
What Does North Korea Get in Return For Sending Cannon Fodder to Ukraine?
Another South African Billionaire, the Owner of the LA Times, Comes to the Aid of Donald Trump
This Election as a Reckoning on Whether America Has Abandoned Democracy for Dictatorship Under the Spell of a Convicted Felon and Serial Liar
How the Latino and Latina Vote Will Decide the Election, and Trump’s Latest Racist Slur at Mexicans
As Trump Tries to Win the Votes of Workers, His Anti-Worker Record is Glaring
A Scholar of Fascism and Italy, Where Fascism Began, On Trump’s Former Chief of Staff’s Comment That Trump “Fits Into the General Definition of Fascist”
The Author of the Goldwater Rule, Which Gagged Psychiatrists, Now Calls For Trump to Be Evaluated For Dementia
Trump’s Plans To Round Up Enemies Into Concentration Camps are the Same as Those of Hitler, Who Quickly Turned Democracy Into Dictatorship
The Abraham Accords Are Becoming a Pipe Dream, as Netanyahu Drives Saudi Arabia and Iran Together
43 States Are Mere Spectators to a Consequential Election that Could be Decided by a Few Counties
One Third of Americans Agree with Trump that “Immigrants Poison the Blood of America,” which Echos the Nazi’s “Criminal Biology”
“Competitive Coexistence” With China as an Alternative to Cold War Containment and Confrontation
