Episodes

  • January 9, 2025 - James Fallows | Glen MacDonald | Mark Whailing

    January 9, 2025 - James Fallows | Glen MacDonald | Mark Whailing
    Jan 9 2025
    Today's Moving Memorial of President Jimmy Carter at His State Funeral | How Climate Change Supercharged the Wildfires That Swept Through LA | A Former LAFD Battalion Chief on What it is Like to Confront a Wall of Flame Driven by 80 MPH Winds backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • January 8, 2025 - Harry Litman | Dr. Jon Kelley | Jamie Court

    January 8, 2025 - Harry Litman | Dr. Jon Kelley | Jamie Court
    Jan 8 2025
    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? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • January 7, 2025 - Scott Horton | Stephen Kinzer | Alexander Cooley

    January 7, 2025 - Scott Horton | Stephen Kinzer | Alexander Cooley
    Jan 7 2025
    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? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • January 6, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Andrew Latham | Thanassis Cambanis

    January 6, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Andrew Latham | Thanassis Cambanis
    Jan 6 2025
    Trump's Orwellian January 6 Victory - Four Years Later Lies Have Won and Truth is Endangered | Today's Resignation of Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau After 9 Years in Office | The Need to Lift Sanctions on Syria Before Chaos Consumes a Failed State
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • January 5, 2025 - Karen Greenberg | Ruth Ben Ghiat | Craig Aaron

    January 5, 2025 - Karen Greenberg | Ruth Ben Ghiat | Craig Aaron
    Jan 5 2025
    Trump's Ominous Response to the Recent Terrorist Attacks | An American Despot is About to Take Charge With So Much More Power Than Hitler Had in 1933 | A Republican Court Kills Net Neutrality to Reward Unpopular and Antiquated Cable and Telecom Giants backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • January 2, 2025 - Robert Pape | Chris McGreal | Stephen Wertheim

    January 2, 2025 - Robert Pape | Chris McGreal | Stephen Wertheim
    Jan 2 2025
    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? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • January 1, 2025 - Wendy Brown | Richard Beck | Brooke Harrington

    January 1, 2025 - Wendy Brown | Richard Beck | Brooke Harrington
    Jan 1 2025
    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 US | Plutocrats No Longer Shape Our Government Behind the Scenes, Musk is Now Giving House Republicans Orders backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • December 31, 2024 - Jason Stanley | Gareth Gore | Timothy Shenk

    December 31, 2024 - Jason Stanley | Gareth Gore | Timothy Shenk
    Dec 31 2024
    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 backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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    1 hr and 18 mins