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Background Briefing with Ian Masters

328 Episodes

65 minutes | a day ago
March 7, 2021 - Tom Nichols | Adrienne Pine | Mark Osler
The GOP is Going the Way of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Biden Should Deal With the Source of the Problems at the Border, Starting With the Corrupt Regime in Honduras | Could The Derek Chauvin Trial End With an Eruption Like the Rodney King Verdict? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
61 minutes | 4 days ago
March 4, 2021 - Nicole Hemmer | Mark Perry | Matthew Rothschild
"How the Party of Lincoln Has Become the Party of Alex Jones" | Christopher Miller and Ryan McCarthy Must Explain Why The Pentagon Waited Over Three Hours to Rescue the Capitol | How One Crackpot Conspiracist is Holding Up Help For Millions of Americans backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
67 minutes | 5 days ago
March 3, 2021 - Leonard Zeskind | Frank Bowman | Chuck Collins
Time to Join the Fight Against the Party of White Supremacy's Attempt to Rewrite History | A Former Colleague of Senator Hawley's on Whether the FBI is Investigating Hawley's Ties to the Insurrection | Going After Billionaires Who Pay Millions to Hide Trillions backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
59 minutes | 6 days ago
March 2, 2021 - Christina Giogio | Trevor Sutton | Gayle Lemmon
The "Christian" GOP Celebrates a Sexual Harasser While the Democrats Show Cuomo the Door | A Plan to Save Democracies From Kleptocracies by Going After Dirty Money | The Brave and Inspiring Kurdish Women Warriors Who Fought ISIS backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
64 minutes | 7 days ago
March 1, 2021 - Ben Jacobs | David Weigel | Rob Wallace
Trump Makes It Clear He IS the Republican Party and It's Kingmaker | Trump Outlines Voter Suppression Plans at CPAC | Rob Wallace on the Origins of Covid-19 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
59 minutes | 8 days ago
February 28, 2021 - Dr. Allen Frances | Steven Greenhouse | James Henry
Trump's GOP Weaponizes the Big Lie of "Stop the Steal" to Steal the Next Elections | What is Wrong With Paying Workers a Living Wage? | Could the Revelations in Trump's Tax Documents Land Him in Jail? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
63 minutes | 11 days ago
February 25, 2021 - Vanessa Wills | Sarah Leah Whitson | Adam Jentleson
While Holding the Mob Accountable For Storming the Capitol, We Cannot Police Our Way Out of Authoritarianism | No Report from the DNI Because Biden Can't Get the Saudi King on the Phone | A Senate Insider on How Nothing Will Get Done Unless the Democrats Get Rid of the Filibuster backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
70 minutes | 12 days ago
February 24, 2021 - Adele Stan | Persis Yu | Justin Scheck
Further Investigations of the Capitol Riot Could Involve Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Mike Flynn and Steve Bannon | Relief For the 45 Million Americans Drowning Under $1.7 Trillion in Student Loan Debt | More Evidence About to Emerge On MbS's Role in the Murder of Khashoggi backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
65 minutes | 13 days ago
February 23, 2021 - Angela Rasmusen | Joaquin Sapien | Mike Konczal
America's Deadly Milestone of 500,000 Preventable Deaths Had We Not Had Such a Sick and Stupid Leader | Capitol Cops on the Failures of Their Chiefs and Sergeants-at-Arms | Rediscovering America's Tradition of Taming Markets to Advance Freedom backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
59 minutes | 14 days ago
February 22, 2021 - Edward McCaffery | Michael Klarman | Mansour Farhang
SCOTUS Finally Releases Trump's Taxes to the Manhattan DA | If the Democrats Don't Go Bold the GOP Will Control the Senate and Courts Into the Future | Iran Takes an American Hostage as Blinken Endorses the Declaration Against Arbitrary Detention in State to State Relations backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
64 minutes | 15 days ago
February 21, 2021 - Paul Wood | Robert Johnson | Ioan Grillo
Trump's Save America PAC in the Real Steal as he Fleeces His Followers Out of $500 million | Can Principled Conservative and Democrats Work Around Trump's GOP? | The River of Guns From the U.S. to Mexico and From Red States Into Inner Cities backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
62 minutes | 18 days ago
February 18, 2021 - Harry Litman | Frank Clemente | Kathryn Stoner Stoner
Why Is the Supreme Court Sitting on Trump's Tax Returns? | Bills to Have the IRS Audit Rich Tax Cheats Would Raise $600 Billion a Year | How Putin Has Brought Russia Back and is Reshaping the International Order backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
59 minutes | 19 days ago
February 17, 2021 - Forrest Wilder | Daniel Byman | Michael Gerhardt
Texas's Political Leaders and Fox News Blame AOC and the Green New Deal for the Frozen Electricity Grid | A Commission to Find the "Facts and Causes" of the Insurrection and Storming of the Capitol | A Witness in the First Impeachment and Special Counsel in the Second on Trump's Legal Landscape Ahead backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
61 minutes | 20 days ago
February 16, 2021 - Ari Berman | Amy Myers Jaffe | Ali al-Ahmed
The Democrats Will Get Nowhere Unless They End the Filibuster | Climate Change Deniers in Charge of Texas Grapple With a Frozen Electricity Grid | With Biden Isolating MbS, Will the Saudi Royals Come Up With More Acceptable Leadership? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
64 minutes | 21 days ago
February 15, 2021 - Lawrence Douglas | Michael Beer | Alexander Cooley
After Exonerating Trump, the GOP Targets Republican Senators Who Voted to Convict Him | The Backlash Against the Military Coup From Brave Citizens in Myanmar | America's Waning Dominance and the Rise of Kleptocracy, Illiberalism and China backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
65 minutes | 22 days ago
February 14, 2021 - Sarah Churchwell | Michael Li | Arthur Caplan
Republican Senators Who Acquitted Trump For a Second Time Will Live in Infamy | If Republicans Win a Future Election It's OK, But if Democrats Do It's Rigged | Employers Should be Able to Mandate Covid Vaccines backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
67 minutes | 25 days ago
February 11, 2021 - Garrett Epps | Geoffrey Kabaservice | Nicole Perlroth
Could Jamie Raskin's Closing Argument Move Enough Republicans to Avoid Their Eternal Shame in History? | The Consequences For the GOP in Exonerating Trump | The Cyberweapons Arms Race and a New Kind of Global Warfare backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
68 minutes | a month ago
February 10, 2021 - Caroline Fredrickson | Tom LoBianco | Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
History Will Condemn Senators Who Turn a Blind Eye to Trump's Monstrous Crimes | A Biographer of Mike Pence on Our Homeless and Silent Ex VP | What Happens When Anti-Government Libertarians Take Over a Town's Government backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
68 minutes | a month ago
February 9, 2021 - Kimberly Wehle | Jim Small | Richard Kreitner
Will Witnesses Who Could Seal Trump's Fate Testify? | The GOP's Authoritarian Moves to Recount the Election in Arizona | Secession Movements Are on the Rise and Break Ups Could Happen Soon backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
67 minutes | a month ago
February 8, 2021 - Sidney Blumenthal | Asawin Suebsaeng | Sarah Jaffe
Will Mike Pence Confront the Man He Slavishly Served Who Tried to Have Him Killed? | Trump's Dead-Enders Are Now Getting Sued and Losing Business | Investing Love and Solidarity, Not in Jobs But in Each Other backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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