Background Briefing with Ian Masters

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Will Biden's Ambitious Agenda be Sidetracked by Trump's Impeachment Trial? | The Sleaze Surrounding Who Gets on Trump's Pardon List | The Performative Violence of the Insurrectionists Without a Political Program backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01.20.2021 January 19, 2021 - Karen Hult \| Harry Litman \| Suzanne Schneider Will Biden's Ambitious Agenda be Sidetracked by Trump's Impeachment Trial? \| The Sleaze Surrounding Who Gets on Trump's Pardon List \| The Performative Violence of the Insurrectionists Without a Political Program backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.18.2021 January 18, 2021 - Anthea Butler \| Bree Carlson \| Andra Gillespie The Role of Apocalyptic Evangelicalism and Religious Nationalism in the Storming of the Capitol \| Political Organizing in the Footsteps of MLK \| MLK's Successor the Reverend Warnock and the Lessons From the Georgia Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.17.2021 January 17, 2021 - Michael Greenberger \| Quinn Slobodian \| Sheila Krumholz Mounting Evidence the Attack on the Capitol Was an Inside Job \| The Merging of the Left and Right in Conspiracy and Alienation \| Right Wing Funding of Politicians Who Championed Insurrection backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.14.2021 January 14, 2021 - Mike Lofgren \| Eric Levitz \| Annie Jacobsen Is the Toxic Trump GOP Now a Captive of the Lunatic Fringe? \| Polls Indicate 40% of Americans Still Think Trump is Doing a Good Job \| Could the World's Most Powerful Biometric Database Be Used Against the American People? ...
01.14.2021 January 13, 2021 - Michael Gerhardt \| Jeremi Suri \| Tim Naftali 10 Republicans Joined Democrats in a 232 to 197 House Vote to Impeach Trump \| The Sudden and Spectacular Fall of Donald Trump \| De-radicalizing the Republican Party backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.13.2021 January 12, 2021 - Jacob Heilbrunn \| Mike German \| Steven Mulroy Corporate America Cuts Ties With an Increasingly Isolated Trump \| How Much Has Law Enforcement, the Military and the Secret Service Been Infiltrated by Trump Sympathizers? \| A Resolution to Abolish the Electoral College backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.12.2021 January 11, 2021 - Jason Stanley \| Julian Zelizer \| Robert Kuttner GOP "Gamers" (McConnell) Flirt with Fascism While Their "Breakers" (Hawley and Cruz) Embrace it \| Pelosi's Deadline to Pence on the 25th Amendment or a Second Impeachment \| Will the Democratic Party Learn From Grassroots Success in Arizona and Georgia? ...
01.10.2021 January 10, 2021 - Norman Ornstein \| Thomas Mockaitis \| Jennifer Golbeck Will a Second Impeachment Get Trump to Resign With A Pardon From Pence? \| Domestic Terrorism and the Reactions of America's Allies \| Cutting Trump Off From Social Media and Protecting Biden's Inauguration backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.07.2021 January 7, 2021 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson \| Jan Schakowsky \| David Rothkopf Serious Discussions Underway to Invoke the 25th Amendment \| A Congresswoman on Being Hunkered Down with a Rampaging Mob Outside \| Yesterday Was a Coup Attempt Deliberately Instigated by Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.07.2021 January 6, 2020 - Will Sommer \| Robert Creamer \| James Thurber A Reporter on the Ground Who Covered Today's Storming of the Capitol \| Banana Republic Politics on Display in Washington Today \| Can Biden Restore Enough Bi-partisanship For Our Government to Function? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.05.2021 January 5, 2020 - Jeffrey Lazarus \| David Dayen \| Bryan Fogel An Update From Georgia on Today's Critical Elections \| Operation Warp Speed Delivered Vaccines But Not Vaccinations \| The Maker of the Documentary on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi, "The Dissident" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.04.2021 January 4, 2020 - David Cay Johnston \| Ruth Ben-Ghiat \| Mark Perry Trump's Shakedown of Georgia's Election Officials Offer a Glimpse of the Mob Boss in the Oval Office \| The Bunker Mentality of an Increasingly Desperate and Delusional Trump \| What is Behind the Warnings Issued by All 10 Living Secretaries ...
01.03.2021 January 3, 2020 - Frank Bowman \| Jon Cohen \| Stephen Walt 12 Republican Senators and 140 House Members Debase Themselves in an Un-American Putsch \| Limited Supply and Urgent Need in the Botched Distribution of Vaccines \| Will the Fortunate Circumstances That Led To America's Rise Last Much Longer? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
12.31.2020 December 31, 2020 - Patrick Blanchfield \| Sarah Churchwell \| Cynthia Miller-Idriss Trump is Using Guns As An Instrument of Political Intimidation \| The Deep Roots of Fascism in America \| The Mainstreaming of White Nationalism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.30.2020 December 30, 2020 - Bree Carlson \| Robert Evans \| Stuart Schrader A Look Back at the Movement Against Racial Injustice and Police Brutality in 2020 - Will This Nationwide Uprising Bring About Racial Justice and Economic Equality? \| Citizens of Portland Continue Their Stand Against Brutal Police Now Aided by Trump’s ...
12.29.2020 December 29, 2020 - Richard Flanagan \| David Wallace-Wells \| Naomi Oreskes A Look Back at the Impact of Global Warming in 2020 - Australia as the Chernobyl of the Climate Crisis \| As the West Burns, 9 Times More CO2 Enters the Atmosphere Than All the Reductions From California’s Green Initiatives ...
12.28.2020 December 28, 2020 - Rob Wallace \| Greg Grandin \| Dr. Ian Lipkin The Origins of the Covid-19 Virus \| The Pandemic as the Fourth Turning Point After 9/11, the 2008 Crash and Climate Change \| We Need Dr. Fauci More Than Ever as Trump Embraces Quackery backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.27.2020 December 27, 2020 - Allan Lichtman \| Lisa Graves \| Scott Horton Trump's Delicate Ego has America Suffering as he Sulks and Settles Scores \| The Lasting Legacy of Trump and McConnell's Stacking of the Courts \| The Q-Anon and 5G Connection to the Nashville Bombing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.24.2020 December 24, 2020 - Gloria Steinem \| Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox \| Nancy MacLean Gloria Steinem on Her Friend, Hero and Guide Ruth Bader Ginsburg \| A Former Catholic Theologian's Open Letter to Amy Coney Barrett \| Could a Reactionary Majority on the Supreme Court Take America Back to the Gilded Age? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
12.23.2020 December 23, 2020 - Sarah Chayes \| Oliver Bullough \| Tom Burgis A Look Back at Corruption in 2020 - Have We Become a Family-Run Banana Republic? \| We Should Blame Politicians Who Accept Dirty Money More Than the Kleptocrats Who Bribe Them \| An FT Investigative Journalist on His New Book, ...
12.22.2020 December 21, 2020 - Sylvia Allegretto \| Robert Johnson \| Tamara Fucile The Semi-Stimulus and Widening Income Inequality \| Will McConnell Give Biden the Same Treatment He Gave Obama? \| Many Immediate Needs Met But Long Term Help is Uncertain backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.20.2020 December 20, 2020 - Sean Lyngaas \| Malcolm Nance \| Terry O'Rourke Trump Dismisses the Russian Hack as Fake News and Blames China Not Russia \| Q-Anon is Among Putin's Many "Active Measures" Campaigns Against the U.S. \| There is a Lot More to the Bizarre Vigilante Incident in Houston backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
12.18.2020 December 17, 2020 - James Thurber \| John Nichols \| Zach Despart Republican Grinches Haggle Over a Paltry Stimulus While America is in Crisis \| We Should be Throwing Money at the Problem Which Will Get Worse and Require More \| Holding an A/C Repairman at Gunpoint to Uncover Imaginary Election Fraud ...
12.17.2020 December 16, 2020 - Alan Paller \| Fred Kaplan \| Michael Gorham Why the U.S. is Vulnerable to Cyber and Ransomware Attacks \| Trumpsters Lie About a Hack That Did Not Happen While Ignoring the Russian Hack \| The Russian Dissident Who Putin Tried to Kill Strikes Back With a Brilliant Video ...
12.16.2020 December 15, 2020 - William Yeomans \| Austin Sarat \| Robert Hockett Barr's Firing Means Trump's Toady Rosen Will Booby Trap DOJ to Harass Biden \| Trump's Assembly Line of Death in His Lame Duck Killing Spree \| How the Green New Deal Will Revive the Economy and Save the Planet backgroundbriefing.org/donate ...
12.14.2020 December 14, 2020 - Akhil Amar \| Dr. Michael McDonald \| Julia Lynch Will Trump Give up the Election Contestation Grift of Donations That Go Into his Pocket? \| What Today's Early Voting in Georgia Reveals \| After Unequal Covid Treatment, Will the Vaccine be Fairly Distributed? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.13.2020 December 13, 2020 - Daniel Ziblatt \| Matt Stoller \| Getachew Begashaw The GOP's Anti-Democratic Suicide Pact With Trump \| The FTC and 46 States Sue to Break Up Facebook \| The Civil War in Ethiopia to Which the Press is Denied Access backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.11.2020 December 10, 2020 - James Moore \| Adam Klasfeld \| Michael Sandel The GOP's Authoritarian Move From Voter Suppression to Outright Voter Theft \| An Investigation Into a Bailout by Qatar of Jared Kushner's Bad Investment \| Healing the Wounds of Those Who Feel the Democratic Party Abandoned Them backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.09.2020 December 9, 2020 - Sarah Leah Whitson & Michael Eisner \| Bandy Lee The UAE Arms Deal Changes the Subject From the Arab-Israeli Conflict to the Arab-Iranian Conflict \| A Forensic Psychiatrist on Our Abuser as Head of State Who Made the American People his Victims backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.09.2020 December 8, 2020 - Lawrence Douglas \| Col. Don Christensen \| Kristin Kobes Du Mez On Safe Harbor Day More Deranged Lawsuits From Trumpsters \| The Removal of 14 Army Leaders at Fort Hood as 20,000 Sexual Assaults in 2019 Resulted in 138 Military Convictions \| Evangelical Masculinity and the Need For Strongmen Like Trump ...
12.07.2020 December 7, 2020 - Dean Baker \| Lauren Windsor \| John Judis The Battle Between the Haves and the Have-Nots Over Who Gets the Vaccine at an Affordable Price \| The Journalist Who Asked Giuliani Whether He Is a Crook \| Socialism's Contribution to American Justice and Equity and the Socialist Awakening ...
12.06.2020 December 6, 2020 - Alan Abramowitz \| John Barry \| Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett Trump's Mixed Message to Georgia Voters \| The Covid Death Toll Inches Toward the 1918-1919 Pandemic Death Toll \| Authors of the New and Timely Book, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do ...
12.04.2020 December 3, 2020 - Dr. Amesh Adalja \| Dr. Dawn Garzon \| Jacob Hacker Record-Breaking Grim Statistics of an Out-of-Control Pandemic \| The Key Link in Our Defense Are Nurses on the Front Line of a Losing Battle \| Plutocratic Populism Now Rules the GOP and With Trump Gone, American Democracy is Still Sick ...
12.03.2020 December 2, 2020 - Jennifer Taub \| David Adler \| Thomas Frank The Erupting White House Bribery-for-Pardons Scandal \| An Organizer of the "Make Amazon Pay" Campaign \| Thomas Frank on His New Book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.01.2020 December 1, 2020 - Lance Dodes \| Steven Hassan Breaking the Ties That Bind Trump's Base to His Delusions \| Why Trump's Followers Believe His Lies and How to Break His Cult-like Spell backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.30.2020 November 30, 2020 - Stephanie Kelton \| Wendy Orent \| David Halperin Assessing Biden's Economic Team and the Challenges They Face \| Killing Minks Won't End the Danger of Factory Farms \| Who Will Clean Up the Wreckage Left By Betsy DeVos? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.29.2020 November 29, 2020 - David Hearst \| Mohsen Sazegara \| Jeffrey Lazarus The Pompeo, MbS, Netanyahu Secret Meeting That Led to the Hit on the Iranian Nuclear Scientist \| A Founder of the IRGC on Israel's Fear Iran is Three Months Away From the Bomb \| Can Trump Undo His Rhetorical Damage ...
11.26.2020 November 26, 2020 - Jaynie Parrish \| Stephan Schwartz \| Rev. Billy A Native American Perspective on Thanksgiving \| What We Can Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving \| The Reverend Billy on the Sin of Shopping backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.25.2020 November 25, 2020 - Wendy Weiser \| Laren Bauer \| Jacob Silverman The Supreme Court's Radical View of Election Law and Rollback of Voting Rights \| Hunger Among America's Children at Thanksgiving \| With Pompeo as the Global Arsonist, Can Biden Put Out the Fires? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.25.2020 November 24, 2020 - Jody Freeman \| Kingston Reif \| Matthew Rojansky Biden's Signal that Climate Change is a National Security Issue \| Is the Pullout From the Open Skies Treaty Trump's Parting Gift to Putin? \| Could Biden Set a New Course With Russia? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.24.2020 November 23, 2020 - Rachel Kleinfeld \| David Rothkopf \| Robert Hockett As Trump Tears the Country Apart, Republicans Prefer Partisan Warfare to Patriotic Cooperation \| An Assessment of Biden's New National Security Team \| Janet Yellen as Biden's Likely Secretary of The Treasury backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.22.2020 November 22, 2020 - Paul Waldman \| Justin Scheck \| Chris Masters Trump's Attempted Murder of American Democracy \| The Host of the G-20's Heavy-Handed Rule and Boundless Greed \| The Australian Journalist Who Broke the Story of War Heroes as War Criminals backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.19.2020 November 19, 2020 - Brian Kalt \| Juan Cole \| Jennifer Kavanagh Trump is Trying to Steal the Election in Plain Sight \| The Consequences of a Strike on Iran Trump Requested \| How to Stop "Truth Decay" and Build a Reality-Based Community in Post-Truth America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.18.2020 November 18, 2020 - Sean Lyngaas \| Dr. Iahn Gonsenhauser \| Tamara Loos Trump's Petty Vengeance Against CISA Head Risks Hospitals Getting Ransomware Attacks \| Survey Finds 40% of Americans Not Taking Precautions at Thanksgiving Gatherings \| Turmoil In Thailand As Subjects Question the King's Excesses and Entitlement backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.17.2020 November 17, 2020 - Eric Segall \| Christine Fair \| William Gould Senator Graham's Election Meddling and the Democrats Chances in Georgia's Run-off Elections \| A Vindictive Trump Exits From Afghanistan and Threatens to Bomb Iran to Hurt Biden \| Stanford University's Weak Rebuke of the Hoover Institution's Scott Atlas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
11.16.2020 November 16, 2020 - Katherine Stewart \| Benjamin Carter Hett \| Robert Alexander Trump's Religious Right Supporters Lost the White House But Plan to Win the War \| In the Bunker Spouting the Big Lie as Trump's Goebbles Rupert Murdoch Spreads Dangerous Delusions \| Pressure Underway to Have "Faithless" Electors Vote for the ...
11.15.2020 November 15, 2020 - Amanda Marcotte \| Ivo Daalder \| Mike Lux The Much Less Than A Million MAGA March \| America's Unnecessarily Long Transition \| Post-election Recriminations Among House Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.13.2020 November 12, 2020 - Evan Osnos \| Dr. Stanley Perlman \| Mark Hayward The New Yorker's Evan Osnos Profiles Joe Biden \| Americans Will Die as Trump's Task Force is Not Allowed to Speak With Biden's Covid Task Force \| Assessing the Growing Coronavirus Death Toll and How to Reverse It backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
11.11.2020 November 11, 2020 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson \| Alan Hirsch \| Lawrence Gostin The Purge at The Pentagon and The Coup Underway Against the Transition \| This Manufactured Election Crisis is Far Worse Than 1876 or 2000 \| With 135,000 New Covid Cases on Tuesday, the Pandemic is Out of Control backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
11.11.2020 November 10, 2020 - Harry Litman \| Sidney Blumenthal \| Ruth Ben-Ghiat A Self-Pardon Or One By a President Pence? \| The GOP and Most of Trump's 71 Million Voters Refuse to Accept Defeat \| Our Weak Strongman is Taking His Defeat Poorly But Predictably backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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01.20.2021 January 19, 2021 - Karen Hult \| Harry Litman \| Suzanne Schneider Will Biden's Ambitious Agenda be Sidetracked by Trump's Impeachment Trial? \| The Sleaze Surrounding Who Gets on Trump's Pardon List \| The Performative Violence of the Insurrectionists Without a Political Program backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.18.2021 January 18, 2021 - Anthea Butler \| Bree Carlson \| Andra Gillespie The Role of Apocalyptic Evangelicalism and Religious Nationalism in the Storming of the Capitol \| Political Organizing in the Footsteps of MLK \| MLK's Successor the Reverend Warnock and the Lessons From the Georgia Elections backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.17.2021 January 17, 2021 - Michael Greenberger \| Quinn Slobodian \| Sheila Krumholz Mounting Evidence the Attack on the Capitol Was an Inside Job \| The Merging of the Left and Right in Conspiracy and Alienation \| Right Wing Funding of Politicians Who Championed Insurrection backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.14.2021 January 14, 2021 - Mike Lofgren \| Eric Levitz \| Annie Jacobsen Is the Toxic Trump GOP Now a Captive of the Lunatic Fringe? \| Polls Indicate 40% of Americans Still Think Trump is Doing a Good Job \| Could the World's Most Powerful Biometric Database Be Used Against the American People? ...
01.14.2021 January 13, 2021 - Michael Gerhardt \| Jeremi Suri \| Tim Naftali 10 Republicans Joined Democrats in a 232 to 197 House Vote to Impeach Trump \| The Sudden and Spectacular Fall of Donald Trump \| De-radicalizing the Republican Party backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.13.2021 January 12, 2021 - Jacob Heilbrunn \| Mike German \| Steven Mulroy Corporate America Cuts Ties With an Increasingly Isolated Trump \| How Much Has Law Enforcement, the Military and the Secret Service Been Infiltrated by Trump Sympathizers? \| A Resolution to Abolish the Electoral College backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.12.2021 January 11, 2021 - Jason Stanley \| Julian Zelizer \| Robert Kuttner GOP "Gamers" (McConnell) Flirt with Fascism While Their "Breakers" (Hawley and Cruz) Embrace it \| Pelosi's Deadline to Pence on the 25th Amendment or a Second Impeachment \| Will the Democratic Party Learn From Grassroots Success in Arizona and Georgia? ...
01.10.2021 January 10, 2021 - Norman Ornstein \| Thomas Mockaitis \| Jennifer Golbeck Will a Second Impeachment Get Trump to Resign With A Pardon From Pence? \| Domestic Terrorism and the Reactions of America's Allies \| Cutting Trump Off From Social Media and Protecting Biden's Inauguration backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.07.2021 January 7, 2021 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson \| Jan Schakowsky \| David Rothkopf Serious Discussions Underway to Invoke the 25th Amendment \| A Congresswoman on Being Hunkered Down with a Rampaging Mob Outside \| Yesterday Was a Coup Attempt Deliberately Instigated by Trump backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.07.2021 January 6, 2020 - Will Sommer \| Robert Creamer \| James Thurber A Reporter on the Ground Who Covered Today's Storming of the Capitol \| Banana Republic Politics on Display in Washington Today \| Can Biden Restore Enough Bi-partisanship For Our Government to Function? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.05.2021 January 5, 2020 - Jeffrey Lazarus \| David Dayen \| Bryan Fogel An Update From Georgia on Today's Critical Elections \| Operation Warp Speed Delivered Vaccines But Not Vaccinations \| The Maker of the Documentary on the Murder of Jamal Khashoggi, "The Dissident" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
01.04.2021 January 4, 2020 - David Cay Johnston \| Ruth Ben-Ghiat \| Mark Perry Trump's Shakedown of Georgia's Election Officials Offer a Glimpse of the Mob Boss in the Oval Office \| The Bunker Mentality of an Increasingly Desperate and Delusional Trump \| What is Behind the Warnings Issued by All 10 Living Secretaries ...
01.03.2021 January 3, 2020 - Frank Bowman \| Jon Cohen \| Stephen Walt 12 Republican Senators and 140 House Members Debase Themselves in an Un-American Putsch \| Limited Supply and Urgent Need in the Botched Distribution of Vaccines \| Will the Fortunate Circumstances That Led To America's Rise Last Much Longer? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
12.31.2020 December 31, 2020 - Patrick Blanchfield \| Sarah Churchwell \| Cynthia Miller-Idriss Trump is Using Guns As An Instrument of Political Intimidation \| The Deep Roots of Fascism in America \| The Mainstreaming of White Nationalism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.30.2020 December 30, 2020 - Bree Carlson \| Robert Evans \| Stuart Schrader A Look Back at the Movement Against Racial Injustice and Police Brutality in 2020 - Will This Nationwide Uprising Bring About Racial Justice and Economic Equality? \| Citizens of Portland Continue Their Stand Against Brutal Police Now Aided by Trump’s ...
12.29.2020 December 29, 2020 - Richard Flanagan \| David Wallace-Wells \| Naomi Oreskes A Look Back at the Impact of Global Warming in 2020 - Australia as the Chernobyl of the Climate Crisis \| As the West Burns, 9 Times More CO2 Enters the Atmosphere Than All the Reductions From California’s Green Initiatives ...
12.28.2020 December 28, 2020 - Rob Wallace \| Greg Grandin \| Dr. Ian Lipkin The Origins of the Covid-19 Virus \| The Pandemic as the Fourth Turning Point After 9/11, the 2008 Crash and Climate Change \| We Need Dr. Fauci More Than Ever as Trump Embraces Quackery backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.27.2020 December 27, 2020 - Allan Lichtman \| Lisa Graves \| Scott Horton Trump's Delicate Ego has America Suffering as he Sulks and Settles Scores \| The Lasting Legacy of Trump and McConnell's Stacking of the Courts \| The Q-Anon and 5G Connection to the Nashville Bombing backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.24.2020 December 24, 2020 - Gloria Steinem \| Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox \| Nancy MacLean Gloria Steinem on Her Friend, Hero and Guide Ruth Bader Ginsburg \| A Former Catholic Theologian's Open Letter to Amy Coney Barrett \| Could a Reactionary Majority on the Supreme Court Take America Back to the Gilded Age? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
12.23.2020 December 23, 2020 - Sarah Chayes \| Oliver Bullough \| Tom Burgis A Look Back at Corruption in 2020 - Have We Become a Family-Run Banana Republic? \| We Should Blame Politicians Who Accept Dirty Money More Than the Kleptocrats Who Bribe Them \| An FT Investigative Journalist on His New Book, ...
12.22.2020 December 21, 2020 - Sylvia Allegretto \| Robert Johnson \| Tamara Fucile The Semi-Stimulus and Widening Income Inequality \| Will McConnell Give Biden the Same Treatment He Gave Obama? \| Many Immediate Needs Met But Long Term Help is Uncertain backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.20.2020 December 20, 2020 - Sean Lyngaas \| Malcolm Nance \| Terry O'Rourke Trump Dismisses the Russian Hack as Fake News and Blames China Not Russia \| Q-Anon is Among Putin's Many "Active Measures" Campaigns Against the U.S. \| There is a Lot More to the Bizarre Vigilante Incident in Houston backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
12.18.2020 December 17, 2020 - James Thurber \| John Nichols \| Zach Despart Republican Grinches Haggle Over a Paltry Stimulus While America is in Crisis \| We Should be Throwing Money at the Problem Which Will Get Worse and Require More \| Holding an A/C Repairman at Gunpoint to Uncover Imaginary Election Fraud ...
12.17.2020 December 16, 2020 - Alan Paller \| Fred Kaplan \| Michael Gorham Why the U.S. is Vulnerable to Cyber and Ransomware Attacks \| Trumpsters Lie About a Hack That Did Not Happen While Ignoring the Russian Hack \| The Russian Dissident Who Putin Tried to Kill Strikes Back With a Brilliant Video ...
12.16.2020 December 15, 2020 - William Yeomans \| Austin Sarat \| Robert Hockett Barr's Firing Means Trump's Toady Rosen Will Booby Trap DOJ to Harass Biden \| Trump's Assembly Line of Death in His Lame Duck Killing Spree \| How the Green New Deal Will Revive the Economy and Save the Planet backgroundbriefing.org/donate ...
12.14.2020 December 14, 2020 - Akhil Amar \| Dr. Michael McDonald \| Julia Lynch Will Trump Give up the Election Contestation Grift of Donations That Go Into his Pocket? \| What Today's Early Voting in Georgia Reveals \| After Unequal Covid Treatment, Will the Vaccine be Fairly Distributed? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.13.2020 December 13, 2020 - Daniel Ziblatt \| Matt Stoller \| Getachew Begashaw The GOP's Anti-Democratic Suicide Pact With Trump \| The FTC and 46 States Sue to Break Up Facebook \| The Civil War in Ethiopia to Which the Press is Denied Access backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.11.2020 December 10, 2020 - James Moore \| Adam Klasfeld \| Michael Sandel The GOP's Authoritarian Move From Voter Suppression to Outright Voter Theft \| An Investigation Into a Bailout by Qatar of Jared Kushner's Bad Investment \| Healing the Wounds of Those Who Feel the Democratic Party Abandoned Them backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.09.2020 December 9, 2020 - Sarah Leah Whitson & Michael Eisner \| Bandy Lee The UAE Arms Deal Changes the Subject From the Arab-Israeli Conflict to the Arab-Iranian Conflict \| A Forensic Psychiatrist on Our Abuser as Head of State Who Made the American People his Victims backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.09.2020 December 8, 2020 - Lawrence Douglas \| Col. Don Christensen \| Kristin Kobes Du Mez On Safe Harbor Day More Deranged Lawsuits From Trumpsters \| The Removal of 14 Army Leaders at Fort Hood as 20,000 Sexual Assaults in 2019 Resulted in 138 Military Convictions \| Evangelical Masculinity and the Need For Strongmen Like Trump ...
12.07.2020 December 7, 2020 - Dean Baker \| Lauren Windsor \| John Judis The Battle Between the Haves and the Have-Nots Over Who Gets the Vaccine at an Affordable Price \| The Journalist Who Asked Giuliani Whether He Is a Crook \| Socialism's Contribution to American Justice and Equity and the Socialist Awakening ...
12.06.2020 December 6, 2020 - Alan Abramowitz \| John Barry \| Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett Trump's Mixed Message to Georgia Voters \| The Covid Death Toll Inches Toward the 1918-1919 Pandemic Death Toll \| Authors of the New and Timely Book, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do ...
12.04.2020 December 3, 2020 - Dr. Amesh Adalja \| Dr. Dawn Garzon \| Jacob Hacker Record-Breaking Grim Statistics of an Out-of-Control Pandemic \| The Key Link in Our Defense Are Nurses on the Front Line of a Losing Battle \| Plutocratic Populism Now Rules the GOP and With Trump Gone, American Democracy is Still Sick ...
12.03.2020 December 2, 2020 - Jennifer Taub \| David Adler \| Thomas Frank The Erupting White House Bribery-for-Pardons Scandal \| An Organizer of the "Make Amazon Pay" Campaign \| Thomas Frank on His New Book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
12.01.2020 December 1, 2020 - Lance Dodes \| Steven Hassan Breaking the Ties That Bind Trump's Base to His Delusions \| Why Trump's Followers Believe His Lies and How to Break His Cult-like Spell backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.30.2020 November 30, 2020 - Stephanie Kelton \| Wendy Orent \| David Halperin Assessing Biden's Economic Team and the Challenges They Face \| Killing Minks Won't End the Danger of Factory Farms \| Who Will Clean Up the Wreckage Left By Betsy DeVos? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.29.2020 November 29, 2020 - David Hearst \| Mohsen Sazegara \| Jeffrey Lazarus The Pompeo, MbS, Netanyahu Secret Meeting That Led to the Hit on the Iranian Nuclear Scientist \| A Founder of the IRGC on Israel's Fear Iran is Three Months Away From the Bomb \| Can Trump Undo His Rhetorical Damage ...
11.26.2020 November 26, 2020 - Jaynie Parrish \| Stephan Schwartz \| Rev. Billy A Native American Perspective on Thanksgiving \| What We Can Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving \| The Reverend Billy on the Sin of Shopping backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.25.2020 November 25, 2020 - Wendy Weiser \| Laren Bauer \| Jacob Silverman The Supreme Court's Radical View of Election Law and Rollback of Voting Rights \| Hunger Among America's Children at Thanksgiving \| With Pompeo as the Global Arsonist, Can Biden Put Out the Fires? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.25.2020 November 24, 2020 - Jody Freeman \| Kingston Reif \| Matthew Rojansky Biden's Signal that Climate Change is a National Security Issue \| Is the Pullout From the Open Skies Treaty Trump's Parting Gift to Putin? \| Could Biden Set a New Course With Russia? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.24.2020 November 23, 2020 - Rachel Kleinfeld \| David Rothkopf \| Robert Hockett As Trump Tears the Country Apart, Republicans Prefer Partisan Warfare to Patriotic Cooperation \| An Assessment of Biden's New National Security Team \| Janet Yellen as Biden's Likely Secretary of The Treasury backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.22.2020 November 22, 2020 - Paul Waldman \| Justin Scheck \| Chris Masters Trump's Attempted Murder of American Democracy \| The Host of the G-20's Heavy-Handed Rule and Boundless Greed \| The Australian Journalist Who Broke the Story of War Heroes as War Criminals backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.19.2020 November 19, 2020 - Brian Kalt \| Juan Cole \| Jennifer Kavanagh Trump is Trying to Steal the Election in Plain Sight \| The Consequences of a Strike on Iran Trump Requested \| How to Stop "Truth Decay" and Build a Reality-Based Community in Post-Truth America backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.18.2020 November 18, 2020 - Sean Lyngaas \| Dr. Iahn Gonsenhauser \| Tamara Loos Trump's Petty Vengeance Against CISA Head Risks Hospitals Getting Ransomware Attacks \| Survey Finds 40% of Americans Not Taking Precautions at Thanksgiving Gatherings \| Turmoil In Thailand As Subjects Question the King's Excesses and Entitlement backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.17.2020 November 17, 2020 - Eric Segall \| Christine Fair \| William Gould Senator Graham's Election Meddling and the Democrats Chances in Georgia's Run-off Elections \| A Vindictive Trump Exits From Afghanistan and Threatens to Bomb Iran to Hurt Biden \| Stanford University's Weak Rebuke of the Hoover Institution's Scott Atlas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
11.16.2020 November 16, 2020 - Katherine Stewart \| Benjamin Carter Hett \| Robert Alexander Trump's Religious Right Supporters Lost the White House But Plan to Win the War \| In the Bunker Spouting the Big Lie as Trump's Goebbles Rupert Murdoch Spreads Dangerous Delusions \| Pressure Underway to Have "Faithless" Electors Vote for the ...
11.15.2020 November 15, 2020 - Amanda Marcotte \| Ivo Daalder \| Mike Lux The Much Less Than A Million MAGA March \| America's Unnecessarily Long Transition \| Post-election Recriminations Among House Democrats backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
11.13.2020 November 12, 2020 - Evan Osnos \| Dr. Stanley Perlman \| Mark Hayward The New Yorker's Evan Osnos Profiles Joe Biden \| Americans Will Die as Trump's Task Force is Not Allowed to Speak With Biden's Covid Task Force \| Assessing the Growing Coronavirus Death Toll and How to Reverse It backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
11.11.2020 November 11, 2020 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson \| Alan Hirsch \| Lawrence Gostin The Purge at The Pentagon and The Coup Underway Against the Transition \| This Manufactured Election Crisis is Far Worse Than 1876 or 2000 \| With 135,000 New Covid Cases on Tuesday, the Pandemic is Out of Control backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia ...
11.11.2020 November 10, 2020 - Harry Litman \| Sidney Blumenthal \| Ruth Ben-Ghiat A Self-Pardon Or One By a President Pence? \| The GOP and Most of Trump's 71 Million Voters Refuse to Accept Defeat \| Our Weak Strongman is Taking His Defeat Poorly But Predictably backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia

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January 19, 2021 - Karen Hult | Harry Litman | Suzanne Schneider

January 18, 2021 - Anthea Butler | Bree Carlson | Andra Gillespie

January 17, 2021 - Michael Greenberger | Quinn Slobodian | Sheila Krumholz

January 14, 2021 - Mike Lofgren | Eric Levitz | Annie Jacobsen

January 13, 2021 - Michael Gerhardt | Jeremi Suri | Tim Naftali

January 12, 2021 - Jacob Heilbrunn | Mike German | Steven Mulroy

January 11, 2021 - Jason Stanley | Julian Zelizer | Robert Kuttner

January 10, 2021 - Norman Ornstein | Thomas Mockaitis | Jennifer Golbeck

January 7, 2021 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson | Jan Schakowsky | David Rothkopf

January 6, 2020 - Will Sommer | Robert Creamer | James Thurber

January 5, 2020 - Jeffrey Lazarus | David Dayen | Bryan Fogel

January 4, 2020 - David Cay Johnston | Ruth Ben-Ghiat | Mark Perry

January 3, 2020 - Frank Bowman | Jon Cohen | Stephen Walt

December 31, 2020 - Patrick Blanchfield | Sarah Churchwell | Cynthia Miller-Idriss

December 30, 2020 - Bree Carlson | Robert Evans | Stuart Schrader

December 29, 2020 - Richard Flanagan | David Wallace-Wells | Naomi Oreskes

December 28, 2020 - Rob Wallace | Greg Grandin | Dr. Ian Lipkin

December 27, 2020 - Allan Lichtman | Lisa Graves | Scott Horton

December 24, 2020 - Gloria Steinem | Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox | Nancy MacLean

December 23, 2020 - Sarah Chayes | Oliver Bullough | Tom Burgis

December 21, 2020 - Sylvia Allegretto | Robert Johnson | Tamara Fucile

December 20, 2020 - Sean Lyngaas | Malcolm Nance | Terry O'Rourke

December 17, 2020 - James Thurber | John Nichols | Zach Despart

December 16, 2020 - Alan Paller | Fred Kaplan | Michael Gorham

December 15, 2020 - William Yeomans | Austin Sarat | Robert Hockett

December 14, 2020 - Akhil Amar | Dr. Michael McDonald | Julia Lynch

December 13, 2020 - Daniel Ziblatt | Matt Stoller | Getachew Begashaw

December 10, 2020 - James Moore | Adam Klasfeld | Michael Sandel

December 9, 2020 - Sarah Leah Whitson & Michael Eisner | Bandy Lee

December 8, 2020 - Lawrence Douglas | Col. Don Christensen | Kristin Kobes Du Mez

December 7, 2020 - Dean Baker | Lauren Windsor | John Judis

December 6, 2020 - Alan Abramowitz | John Barry | Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett

December 3, 2020 - Dr. Amesh Adalja | Dr. Dawn Garzon | Jacob Hacker

December 2, 2020 - Jennifer Taub | David Adler | Thomas Frank

December 1, 2020 - Lance Dodes | Steven Hassan

November 30, 2020 - Stephanie Kelton | Wendy Orent | David Halperin

November 29, 2020 - David Hearst | Mohsen Sazegara | Jeffrey Lazarus

November 26, 2020 - Jaynie Parrish | Stephan Schwartz | Rev. Billy

November 25, 2020 - Wendy Weiser | Laren Bauer | Jacob Silverman

November 24, 2020 - Jody Freeman | Kingston Reif | Matthew Rojansky

November 23, 2020 - Rachel Kleinfeld | David Rothkopf | Robert Hockett

November 22, 2020 - Paul Waldman | Justin Scheck | Chris Masters

November 19, 2020 - Brian Kalt | Juan Cole | Jennifer Kavanagh

November 18, 2020 - Sean Lyngaas | Dr. Iahn Gonsenhauser | Tamara Loos

November 17, 2020 - Eric Segall | Christine Fair | William Gould

November 16, 2020 - Katherine Stewart | Benjamin Carter Hett | Robert Alexander

November 15, 2020 - Amanda Marcotte | Ivo Daalder | Mike Lux

November 12, 2020 - Evan Osnos | Dr. Stanley Perlman | Mark Hayward

November 11, 2020 - Col. Lawrence Wilkerson | Alan Hirsch | Lawrence Gostin

November 10, 2020 - Harry Litman | Sidney Blumenthal | Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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