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Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
The Ghost of Roy Cohn Will Rule Over the Next 4 Years of MAGA Jurisprudence
Environmental and Ecological Factors Behind the Wildfires Raging in LA
Will Homeowners Get Their Insurance Payouts and Will Insurance Still Be Available in Fire-Prone Areas?
The Normalization of Trump By the Press and Social Media, as Its Owners Bezos and Zuckerberg Move to Flatter Rather Than Fact-Check Him
At Today’s Rambling Press Conference, Trump Does Not Rule Out Military Force to Take Back the Panama Canal, Grab Greenland, and Make Canada the 51st State
Why is Trump Attacking Our Closest Allies, While Cozying up to Our Worst Adversaries?
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
