Background Briefing with Ian Masters
October 28, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Hassan Jabareen
Oct 28, 20261 hour
October 28, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Hassan Jabareen by Ian Masters
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Background Briefing with Ian Masters
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Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues. backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia facebook.com/ianmastersmedia
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What is Background Briefing with Ian Masters about?
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, expert guests, policymakers, and critics offering analysis and insight on national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and social issues.
Who hosts Background Briefing with Ian Masters?
Background Briefing with Ian Masters is hosted by Ian Masters. The show has published 500 episodes to date.
What has Background Briefing with Ian Masters covered recently?
Recent episodes include "October 28, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Hassan Jabareen" (28 October 2026, 60 minutes), "October 27, 2026 - Jake Grumbach | Nina Burleigh" (27 October 2026, 63 minutes), and "October 26, 2026 - James Green | Allan Lichtman" (26 October 2026, 61 minutes).
How often does Background Briefing with Ian Masters publish?
Background Briefing with Ian Masters publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 64 minutes across 500 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Background Briefing with Ian Masters?
Booking probability for Background Briefing with Ian Masters is 46%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Background Briefing with Ian Masters requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Background Briefing with Ian Masters's contact route on record: verified email.
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Ian Masters hosts Background Briefing with Ian Masters, a news podcast with 500 episodes published.
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Background Briefing with Ian Masters
October 27, 2026 - Jake Grumbach | Nina Burleigh
Oct 27, 20261h 3mWhile Musk Spends Half a Billion on Republicans, "Spam PAC's" and Greedy Consultants Eat up a Lot of Hard-Earned Money From Democratic Small Donors | The Report From Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee Alleges...
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October 26, 2026 - James Green | Allan Lichtman
Oct 26, 20261h 1mThe Turnaround in Brazil Propelled by Young Voters Who Reelected Lula To a 4th Term | The Historical Record on Midterm Elections and History's Verdict of Trump as America's Worst Ever President...
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October 26, 2026 - Sidney Blumenthal | Charles Kupchan | Donald Kupchan
Oct 25, 20261h 5mPedophelia Protection Defines the Trump Administration Along With Treason | Disarray in Europe and Growing Illiberal Populism in a World in Need of a New Architecture For Global Governance | The Genesis of the Growth of...
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October 22, 2026 - Andrew Feinberg | Michael Kimmage | Stephanie Justice
Oct 22, 20261h 1mA White House Correspondent Trump Called a "Sick Person" Who Vance Labelled an "Imbecile" On How He Was Banned From Air Force One | Trump's "Yalta" in His Quest For a Nobel Prize To Take Place at the APEC Summit in...
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October 21, 2026 - Avi Asher-Schapiro | Robert Alexander | Chuck Collins
Oct 21, 20261h 2mOctober 21, 2026 - Avi Asher-Schapiro | Robert Alexander | Chuck Collins by Ian Masters
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October 20, 2026 - Paul Pillar | David Andelman | Mike Dennison
Oct 20, 20261h 1mOctober 20, 2026 - Paul Pillar | David Andelman | Mike Dennison by Ian Masters
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October 19, 2026 - Simon Shuster | David Schultz | Ira Shapiro
Oct 19, 20261h 4mTrump Follows Putin's Advice to Convene a Summit with Xi, Putin and Trump, Without Zelensky, to End Putin's War on Ukraine | DHS's Efforts to Denaturalize Congresswoman Omar and Obama's Defense of Her | If and When Will...
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October 18, 2026 - Jeremi Suri | Julia Loktev & Valeria Ratnikova | Akbar Shahid Ahmed
Oct 18, 20261h 8mThe Richest Man in the World, Who Bought the Last Election For the Republicans, Has Spent $366 Million So Far On the Midterms Including $168 Million to Elect Ken Paxton | A Brave Young Exiled Russian Journalist and the...
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October 15, 2026 - Robert Pape | Sarah Leah Whitson | Santiago Mayer
Oct 15, 20261h 8mOctober 15, 2026 - Robert Pape | Sarah Leah Whitson | Santiago Mayer by Ian Masters
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October 14th, 2026 - Natalie Melnyczuk | Benn Steil | Julie Ingersoll
Oct 14, 20261h 3mOctober 14th, 2026 - Natalie Melnyczuk | Benn Steil | Julie Ingersoll by Ian Masters
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October 13, 2026 - Tamar Jacoby | Sharon Weinberger | Dr. Sumit Ganguly
Oct 13, 20261h 2mOctober 13, 2026 - Tamar Jacoby | Sharon Weinberger | Dr. Sumit Ganguly by Ian Masters
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October 12, 2026 - Lincoln Mitchell | Susan Neiman | Carissa Véliz
Oct 12, 20261h 11mHow After the Midterms Democrats Must Extinguish the Many Flavors of Trump and MAGA Fascism | The Left Should Rediscover the Word Evil and Apply it to Trump and MAGA | The Author of Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the...
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October 11, 2026 - Norman Ornstein | Suzanne Schneider | Harold Meyerson
Oct 11, 20261h 1mThe Democrats Daunting To-Do List When They Take The House and Senate | Hegseth's Obscene Focus on Lethality Mimics Iran's Public Executions and Gives Aid and Comfort to Jihadis | Why Did Leading California Democrats...
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October 8, 2026 - Dr. Vincent Greenwood | JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine
Oct 8, 20261h 3mAn Expert on Psychopathic Personality Disorder Ties Trump's Deteriorating Condition to the Crises We Face |Background Briefing's Anna Leah With the Authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's...
Background Briefing with Ian Masters
October 7, 2026 - Asher Kaufman | Nicolas Jabko | Eric Liu
Oct 7, 20261h 11mThe Third Anniversary of the Hamas Attack on Israel and How Netanyahu's Ignoring of Warnings is Impacting the October 27 Election | How France's Record Debt Underpins the Lack of Investment in Education as Students...
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October 6, 2026 - Dr. Henry Abraham | Anders Aslund | Gregory Koblentz
Oct 6, 20261h 3mTrump Invites Iran to Nuke the Democratic Cities of Los Angeles and San Diego | Putin Offers the Mother of All Corrupt Deals to the Trump/Witkoff Families For Selling Out Ukraine | Russia Covers Up a Researcher's Death...
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October 5, 2026 - James Green | Sasha Abramsky | David Cay Johnston
Oct 5, 20261h 5mWill Brazil Join the Rightward Shift in Latin America Following Chile, Honduras and Colombia? | Sam Altman Says We Should Accept "Bad Things" With AI. What Could Go Wrong? | What Is in The Epstein Files That Trump is So...
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October, 4 2026 - Reverend Stacy Rector | Hamidreza Azizi | Susan Smith-Peter
Oct 4, 20261h 3mWill the Macabre Barbarism of a Botched Execution in Tennessee Change People's Views on Capital Punishment? | An Analysis of Iran's Strategic Adaptation and the Likelihood of a Resumption of the Iran War | Anna Leah...
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October 1, 2026 - Michael Weinstein | Emma Ashford | Sonali Kolhatkar
Oct 1, 202659 minMichael Weinstein | Emma Ashford | Sonali Kolhatkar
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James Green
co-founder and General Partner at DQventures, Australian agricultural construction
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Allan Lichtman
author of Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House, American University
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Michael Kimmage
Professor of History, Catholic University of America
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Chuck Collins
Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, Institute for Policy Studies
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