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Ian Masters hosts Background Briefing with Ian Masters, a news show with 500 episodes published.
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A Supreme Court in an Alternative Universe Gives More Power to the "Orange Bandit" | How to Bridge the Different Understandings the U.S. and Iran Have Over the Future of the Strait of Hormuz | A Political Activist Who is
Since Trump Claims He Runs Venezuela, What is He Doing to Help the Victims of the Devastating Earthquakes? | DHS and ICE's Criminalization of Protests Against Their Thuggish Cruelty | As Trump's Poll Numbers Crater, Crac
Trump's Favorite Judge Shows How Protesting Against Government Cruelty Can Get You 30 Years in Prison Even If You Weren't at the Protest | Instead of Walls, A Welcome Table | As Trump Tries to End Our Democracy, How Can
What Do the Big Wins By Mamdani-Backed Democratic Socialists in New York Mean for the Future of Democratic Party Leadership | Could There Be a Silver Lining in the Wake of the Otherwise Unmitigated Disaster Trump and Net
In Spite of GOP Lies, There's An Easy Fix For a Social Security Shortfall in 2034 | The MAGA Fraud Frays As the Majority Tires of Trump's Lies, Amateurism and Incompetence | The Rise of Right Wing Authoritarian Leaders i
The UK's PM Resigns With a People-Friendly Andy Burnham Poised to Replace Him | Why Did Republican Senators Confirm a Russian-Friendly Asset to Head U.S. Intel Who Took Her Marching Orders From a Homophobic, Islamophobe,
Iran Closes the Strait Of Hormuz as Negotiators in Switzerland Try to Rescue the U.S.-Iran Peace Deal | Nazi Messages From DHS as MAGA-Trump Racism and Xenophobia Contrast with the Multi-Cultural Diversity and Joy of the
Vance Unloads on Israel in an Obvious Warning Not to Spoil the White House Deal With Iran | How to Stop an Autocrat From Rigging Another Election | Efforts to Stop the Paramount-Warner Merger and Its Impact on Jobs, News
Even if Trump Has Given Away the Store, Diplomacy is Better Than Continuing to Fight a Lost War | The Price the U.S. Will Pay for Trump's Hubris, Hegseth's Incompetence and Netanyahu's Mendacity | In Shelving His New DNI
A Deal to Make a Deal Has Hawks on All Sides Terrified it Will Succeed | G-7 Leaders Bring Trump and Zelensky Together to Change the U.S. Role From Messenger Between Ukraine and Russia to Mediator That Makes Peace | The
Iran Will Sign a Deal on Friday as the Winner, But Will the War Be Over? | As Texas Republicans Target Talarico's Masculinity, the White House Puts on a Display of Toxic Masculinity and Cheesy Patriotism | Is the World's
Trump's 80th Birthday Present Today Is Mindless Violence Where Jackie Kennedy's Rose Garden Once Stood Instead of Iran Signing a Peace Deal | A Post-War Strategic Realignment That Will Leave the U.S. Much Worse Off | Wit
Trump Tries To Spin His Way Out of a Defeat and the End of U.S. Hegemony in the Persian Gulf | Trump Ditches Pulte to Unblock FISA So the Government Can Spy on Americans | Trump's Lies About California Vote-Rigging Set t
Trump's Plan to Destroy US Intelligence and Steal the Next Election | The Common Sense Coalition's Warning of the Trump Catastrophe For Our Democracy, National Security, Economy and the Future of the Planet backgroundbri
In Spite of Hit Jobs From the Liberal Media, a Progressive Populist is Poised to Win in Maine | A Report From Albania on Protests Against Jared and Ivanka's Luxury Resort in a Nature Reserve | Trump Has His Roy Cohn But
Trump to Netanyahu: "I Call The Shots" and You Have To Accept Any Peace Deal I Make with Iran | Amid Heightened Tensions Between the US and Israel, Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries | Scott Pe
The US and Iran Exchange Fire Jeopardizing a Tenuous Ceasefire As Iran Insists on Trump Handing Over $24 Billion of Its Money Before Finalizing a Deal | Republican Senators Give Stephen Miller $70 Billion On Top Of $100
Now That Trump Has His Roy Cohn, Will the Senate Confirm Todd Blanche to be the Nation's Attorney General? | The Impact of the Latest Scandal Swirling Around Graham Platner on the Democrat's Chances to Win Back the Senat
Election Results From Yesterday's Primaries With a Focus on California | Trump's Roy Cohn Does a Bait and Switch Ending the $1.8 Billion Slush Fund While Shielding Trump and His Family From IRS Audits | Trump Publicly Di
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