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Background Briefing offers an educational approach to providing information in an era of “fake news.”
How the Roberts Court Laid the Groundwork For a Plutocratic and Theocratic Takeover of American Democracy
Trump’s Plans From 1798 Law to Use the U.S. Military Against Migrants and Drug Cartels
In Releasing Jailed Militia Leaders, Is Trump Following Mussolini and Hitler’s Playbook of a “Blackshirt” and “Brownshirt” Assault on Democracy?
Today Trump Issued a Death Sentence to Our Children and Grandchildren
The Unreality of the Reality TV Star Spewing Lies as Promises
The Crypto Grift of $Trump, Even Before He Became the Grifter-in-Chief
An Analysis of the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal
Biden’s Warning of a New American Oligarchy and the Danger of a Tech-Industrial Complex
What Latitude Will “Little Marco” Have As Secretary of State?
The Confirmation of the Pay-to-Play Pam Bondi For Attorney General
Trump’s Grossly Unqualified Wrecking Crew Is Aimed at Deconstructing the American State to Serve the Plutocrats Not the People
Determined to Do Trump’s Bidding, Republican Senators Roll Over the Democrats and Confirm a Dangerously Unqualified Ideologue as Secretary of Defense
A Former Female JAG Officer on Hegseth’s Disparagement of Women in the Military and Military Justice
Jack Smith’s January 6 Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted Had the Case Gone To Trial
Unlike Biden, Trump Uses Leverage to Get a Ceasefire and Hostage Release Deal Between Israel and Hamas
Instead of Helping Angelenos Who Lost Their Homes, Trump Offers Insults
The Third Inauguration of Venezuela’s Maduro, Who Lost the Last Election in a Landslide
The Scofflaw-in-Chief is Now the Felon-in-Chief
Today’s Moving Memorial of President Jimmy Carter at His State Funeral
How Climate Change Supercharged the Wildfires That Swept Through LA
A Former LAFD Battalion Chief on What it is Like to Confront a Wall of Flame Driven by 80 MPH Winds
The Ghost of Roy Cohn Will Rule Over the Next 4 Years of MAGA Jurisprudence
Environmental and Ecological Factors Behind the Wildfires Raging in LA
Will Homeowners Get Their Insurance Payouts and Will Insurance Still Be Available in Fire-Prone Areas?
The Normalization of Trump By the Press and Social Media, as Its Owners Bezos and Zuckerberg Move to Flatter Rather Than Fact-Check Him
At Today’s Rambling Press Conference, Trump Does Not Rule Out Military Force to Take Back the Panama Canal, Grab Greenland, and Make Canada the 51st State
Why is Trump Attacking Our Closest Allies, While Cozying up to Our Worst Adversaries?
Trump’s Orwellian January 6 Victory – Four Years Later Lies Have Won and Truth is Endangered
Today’s Resignation of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau After 9 Years in Office
The Need to Lift Sanctions on Syria Before Chaos Consumes a Failed State
