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May 2, 2024 - Paul Pillar | David Pozen | Cat Packer
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On the Brink of the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza as Ceasefire Talks Are Deadlocked | The DEA's Decriminalization of Marijuana as Too Little Too Late | Could a Change in DEA Policy Revive California's Troubled Marijuana Industry?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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A Pro-Israel Mob Invades the UCLA Campus to Beat up Pro-Palestinian Students While the Police Look On | Assessing the Flaws and Exploring the Fixes to a Constitution That is Failing Americans As Fascism Threatens Our DemocracyHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan GreenAv Ian Masters
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April 30, 2024 - Wendy Pearlman | Timothy Ryback
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As Campus Protests Intensify and Spread, Northwestern University Serves as a Model For Deescalation | The Disturbingly Accurate Analogies Between Hitler's Rise to Power and Trump's Threat to Democracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaAv Ian Masters
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April 29, 2024 - Raz Segal | Dennis Aftergut | Sumit Ganguly
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The Weaponization of Anti Semitism Against Students Protesting on American Campuses | The Strength of the Only Trial That May End Up Holding Trump to Account Before the Election | Elections Underway in the World's Largest Democracy and the Dark Side Modi's Indiabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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April 28, 2024 - Lara Friedman | Leah Litman | Allan Lichtman
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The House and Senate Moves to Strip Non-Profit Status From Foundations That Support Palestinian Causes | The Damage the Supreme Court is Doing to the Rule of Law by Making Trump Above the Law | Biden's Reelection Chances According to a Prediction System That Has Got Every Presidential Election Right Since 1984backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.co…
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April 25, 2024 - Aziz Huq | Aynne Kokas | David Austin Walsh
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More Special Treatment of Trump by the Supreme Court | Implications of Biden's TikTok Ban | The Enduring Relationship Between the Far-Right and Conservative Movements of "Responsible" and "Respectable" Republicansbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaAv Ian Masters
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April 24, 2024 - George Beebe | Dr. Rob Davidson | Ari Berman
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Supreme Court Anti-Abortion Ideologues Threaten Access to Emergency Care | The Search For Diplomatic Openings as the War in Ukraine Escalates | Trump's Republican Party Makes it Clear the GOP Would Rather Cheat Than CompeteHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan GreenAv Ian Masters
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April 23, 2024 - Nina Burleigh | Sidney Blumenthal | Garrett Epps
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Trump's History of Using and Abusing Women | The Pathetic Man on Display in the Courtroom as a Far Cry From the MAGA Faithful's Superhero | Will SCOTUS Undermine the 8th Amendment's Protection For the Homeless Against Cruel and Unusual Punishment?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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April 22, 2024 - Alexander Sammon | Anne Nelson | Natalie Foster
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Arrests of Students Protesting the War in Gaza Spread From Columbia to Yale | The Optics of Trump on Trial in New York; a President Off His Pedestal Defending Sleazy Criminal Behavior | A Positive Case For America's Next EconomyHost: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Green…
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April 21, 2024 - Aram Shabanian | Nataliya Gumenyuk | Steven Simon
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Meeting Ukraine's Needs as Russia Mobilizes for a June Offensive | How Ukraine Will Survive and Adjust to Permanent War | The Deadly War in Gaza and Israel's Tenuous Standoff With Iran as Both Israel and Palestine Appear to be Leaderless and Directionlessbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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April 18, 2024 - Illia Ponomarenko | Scott Horton | Steven Greenhouse
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A View From Ukraine as the Fate of Their Country Hangs in the Hands of Mike Johnson and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Jurors Quit the Trump Trial as the Criminal Defendant Tests the Gag Orders | As Billionaires Try to Kill the NLRB, the UAW Makes Gains in the Southbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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April 17, 2024 - Rebecca Roiphe | Anders Åslund | Chuck Marr
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The Prologue to the Trump Criminal Trial Underway in Which AG Barr Went Out of His Way to Protect "Individual 1" | Is Mike Johnson Serious About Aiding Ukraine or Following Trump and Putin's Orders? | Biden's Tax Plan in Contrast to Trump's Giveaway to Billionairesbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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April 16, 2024 - Assal Rad | Mansour Farhang | Claire Finkelstein
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A Look Inside Iran as Its People Wait For Israel's Retaliation Which Could Lead to a Wider War | The Symbiosis Between Israel's Hardline PM and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei | An Assessment of Today's Oral Argument That Could Result in the Supreme Court Undoing Charges Against Trump and the J6 Insurrectionists backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/i…
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April 15, 2024 - Adam Weinstein | Jennifer Taub | Joshua Ferrer
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Biden Meets With Iraq's PM Over Concerns That US Troops in Iraq and Syria Are Vulnerable if Israel Retaliates Against Iran | The First Day of Trump's NY Trial and the Possibility of a Trumpster on the Jury Causing a Mistrial as Happened in the Bannon "We Build the Wall" Fraud Case | The Record Numbers of Election Officials Quitting Under Threats Fr…
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April 14, 2024 - Nicholas Heras | Lisa Graves | Paul Glastris
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Iran's Theatrical Response to the Israeli Strike and the Fear of Netanyahu Escalating | Finally the Architect of the Far-Right Takeover of the US Judiciary | An Assessment of the Trump vs Biden Records of Achievementbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmediaAv Ian Masters
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April 11, 2024 - Dr. Nancy Okail | Ellis Krauss | Stephen Lemons
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Israel's AI Tools "Gospel", "Lavender" and "Where's Daddy" Are Being Used For Targeted Assassinations in Gaza | Increased Cooperation Between the U.S., Japan and The Philippines' Militaries Tops the White House Summit Agenda | An Assessment of the Political Damage to Arizona Republicans From the 1864 Abortion Ban backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitte…
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April 10, 2024 - Jessica Mason Pieklo | Caroline Fredrickson | James Risen
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The Arizona Supreme Court Takes the State Back to 1864 Before it Was a State With a Draconian Abortion Law | The Left/Right Coalition Refusing to Re-Authorize FISA With MAGA Republicans Doing So Because Trump Thinks it Was Used to Spy on Him | The Fatal Combination of Passivity in the Electorate and Trump's Impunity Could End American Democracyback…
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April 9, 2024 - Laurie Levenson | Miles Taylor | Michael Graetz
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Did Trump's Lawyers Mislead the NY Appeals Court to Get a Lower Bond? | As Trump Encourages Secession and Threatens Civil War, He Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving to China and Russia | How Billionaires Who Don't Pay Taxes Use Their Surplus Money to Buy Politicians to Lower Their Taxes Even Further backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmasters…
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April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey
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April 8, 2024 - Renee Hobbs | Dr. Allen Frances | Kevin Carey by Ian MastersAv Ian Masters
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April 7, 2024 - Nader Hashemi | Jeff Colgan | Robert Hockett
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Iran's vow to Retaliate Against an Israeli Strike Could Lead to a Wider War Biden is Trying to Avoid | With MbS and Trump Talking, What Could They Do to Jack Up Gas Prices to Hurt Biden's Reelection? | Good Economic News as Janet Yellen Tries to Get a Level Playing Field With Chinabackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com…
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April 4, 2024 - Ryan Cooper | Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal | Tommy Miles
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Trump's Piety in Contrast to the Porn he Faces and the Cruelty and Hatred he Displays | The 100 Right Wing Tax-Exempt Organizations With Over $2 Billion to Elect Trump | AFRICOM Loses Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger to the Russiansbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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April 3, 2024 - Harry Litman | John Stoehr | Jeet Heer
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Jack Smith's Shot Across the Bow at the Trump-Friendly Judge on the Classified Documents Case | The Florida Supreme Court's 6 Week Abortion Ban and a Ballot Initiative to Enshrine Abortion Access in the Florida State Constitution | "Why Silicon Valley Reactionaries Love RFK Jr."Host: Ian MastersProducer: Graham FitzGibbonAssistant Producer: Evan Gr…
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April 2, 2024 - Sarah Leah Whitson | Thanassis Cambanis | Ahmet Yayla
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Israel's Killing of 7 Aid Workers Who Were Feeding Starving Gazans Sparks International Outrage | Will Israel's Strike on an Iranian Consulate That Killed Top IRGC Officials Provoke a Wider War? | What the US Could Learn From the Electoral Rebuke of Erdogan's Dictatorship and Kleptocracybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebo…
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April 1, 2024 - Michael Weiss | Marci Shore | Steven Hahn
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New evidence on "Havana Syndrome" Links the GRU's Assassination Unit 29155 to Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Officials and Their Families | A Scholar Just Back From Ukraine on the Heroism of Ukraine and the Nihilism of Mike Johnson | Trump's Illiberalism is Not a Departure But a Recurring Theme in American Historybackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.co…
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March 31, 2024 - Annelle Sheline | Peter Pomerantsev | Martin Sixsmith
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The State Department Officer With Feds United for Peace Who Resigned to Protest US Complicity in Israel's War on Gaza | The Success of Propaganda as a Third of Americans Now Believe Trump's Big Lie | Putin's Evolution From Democrat to Despotbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediafacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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