October 21, 2026 - Avi Asher-Schapiro | Robert Alexander | Chuck Collins
October 21, 2026 - Avi Asher-Schapiro | Robert Alexander | Chuck Collins by Ian Masters
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20 of 626 episodesOctober 20, 2026 - Paul Pillar | David Andelman | Mike Dennison
October 20, 2026 - Paul Pillar | David Andelman | Mike Dennison by Ian Masters
October 19, 2026 - Simon Shuster | David Schultz | Ira Shapiro
Trump 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 t...
October 18, 2026 - Jeremi Suri | Julia Loktev & Valeria Ratnikova | Akbar Shahid Ahmed
The Richest Man in the World, Who Bought the Last Election For the Republicans, Has Spent $366 Million So Far On the Midterms Including $168...
October 15, 2026 - Robert Pape | Sarah Leah Whitson | Santiago Mayer
October 15, 2026 - Robert Pape | Sarah Leah Whitson | Santiago Mayer by Ian Masters
October 14th, 2026 - Natalie Melnyczuk | Benn Steil | Julie Ingersoll
October 14th, 2026 - Natalie Melnyczuk | Benn Steil | Julie Ingersoll by Ian Masters
October 13, 2026 - Tamar Jacoby | Sharon Weinberger | Dr. Sumit Ganguly
October 13, 2026 - Tamar Jacoby | Sharon Weinberger | Dr. Sumit Ganguly by Ian Masters
October 12, 2026 - Lincoln Mitchell | Susan Neiman | Carissa Véliz
How After the Midterms Democrats Must Extinguish the Many Flavors of Trump and MAGA Fascism | The Left Should Rediscover the Word Evil and A...
October 11, 2026 - Norman Ornstein | Suzanne Schneider | Harold Meyerson
The Democrats Daunting To-Do List When They Take The House and Senate | Hegseth's Obscene Focus on Lethality Mimics Iran's Public Executions...
October 8, 2026 - Dr. Vincent Greenwood | JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine
An Expert on Psychopathic Personality Disorder Ties Trump's Deteriorating Condition to the Crises We Face |Background Briefing's Anna Leah W...
October 7, 2026 - Asher Kaufman | Nicolas Jabko | Eric Liu
The Third Anniversary of the Hamas Attack on Israel and How Netanyahu's Ignoring of Warnings is Impacting the October 27 Election | How Fran...
October 6, 2026 - Dr. Henry Abraham | Anders Aslund | Gregory Koblentz
Trump Invites Iran to Nuke the Democratic Cities of Los Angeles and San Diego | Putin Offers the Mother of All Corrupt Deals to the Trump/Wi...
October 5, 2026 - James Green | Sasha Abramsky | David Cay Johnston
Will Brazil Join the Rightward Shift in Latin America Following Chile, Honduras and Colombia? | Sam Altman Says We Should Accept "Bad Things...
October, 4 2026 - Reverend Stacy Rector | Hamidreza Azizi | Susan Smith-Peter
Will the Macabre Barbarism of a Botched Execution in Tennessee Change People's Views on Capital Punishment? | An Analysis of Iran's Strategi...
October 1, 2026 - Michael Weinstein | Emma Ashford | Sonali Kolhatkar
A "Christian" Crusader In Charge of the Nuclear Arsenal Who Is Invested in the End Times Should Scare Us All | "Everyone Got Pete Hegseth Wr...
September 30, 2026 - Lisa Graves | Isabella Mosselmans | Dan Grazier
How John Roberts Has Increased the Power of the Criminal in Charge of the Executive Branch While Weakening the Judicial Branch Whose Rulings...
September 30, 2026
September 30, 2026 by Ian Masters
September 29, 2026 - Nader Hashemi | Paul Eisenstein | Jacob Weisberg
September 29, 2026 - Nader Hashemi | Paul Eisenstein | Jacob Weisberg by Ian Masters
September 28 2026 - Alexander Sammon | David Corn
As Trump Warns the Communist Menace Is About to Take Over the Country, We Enter The CPUSA's Shadowy Lair | Having Cowered the Press Away Fro...
September 27, 2026 - Dr. Allen Frances | James Risen | Michael McDonald
A President Who Has Always Been Out of His Depth Is Now Losing His Mind |Trump's White House Press Ban Backfires With Xi Annoyed the Western...