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Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
Press Freedom in America Under Attack by Trump and Plutocratic Press Owners Cowering Before the Dear Leader
Republicans Vote Against Their Constituent’s Interests to Cut Taxes For Plutocrats
Why Did Israel Vote With Russia and Iran Against Ukraine and Its Jewish Leader?
Trump’s Politicization of the Military and the Firing of Its Top Lawyers So That His Unlawful Orders Won’t be Blocked
The Historical Plunge of Trump’s Poll Numbers in Just One Month
Having Patel and Bongino Head the FBI Means Trump Will Go after His Enemies While He Can Break the Law With Impunity
The Need For Our Politicians, Business Leaders, and Citizens to Recognize Trump’s Sickness and Intervene Before He Does Any More Damage to the Country and the World
The Rise and Fall of the French, Soviet, and American Empires, With the New Chinese Empire Already on Shaky Ground
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After Throwing Ukraine Under the Bus, Trump is Now Trashing Zelensky
What Can Ukraine Do to Defend Itself and Rebuild After Trump Sells the Country out to Putin?
How Trump Rode Into the White House Again on a Wave of Reactionary Nihilism
From a Mad English King 249 Years Later to a Mad American King
The Wannabe Mob Boss Trump and His Early Years With Made Men His Father Dealt With
Trump’s Mafia-Style Foreign Policy as the Mob Boss Putin Meets With The Wannabe Mob Boss in Saudi Arabia
Vance Tells Allies Russia is Not the Enemy, Europe’s Enemy is Within, and It’s … Wokeness!
A Global Alliance of Autocrats and Kleptocrats Emerges, as Trump Follows Orban’s Playbook
Our Top Law Enforcer Pam Bondi Embraces Lawlessness and Corruption
Trump is Selling Out Ukraine to Putin, Who He Is Going to Bat For, to Have the Pariah Readmitted to the G7
Republican Senators Confirm an Anti-Vaxxer and Conspiracy Monger to Head HHS
How the Left Lost Its Political Footing and How to Get it Back
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?
