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December 8, 2025 - William Cohan | Aram Shabanian | Ari Berman
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Trump's Billionaire Buddy Launches a Hostile Takeover To Create a Trump-Friendly Media Giant | Zelensky Meets with Europe's Leaders Alarmed by Trump's New National Security Strategy | How Do the Democrats Take Back the House in the Face of a Partisan Supreme Court, a Serial Coup-Plotter and a Craven GOP Willing to Sell Out American Democracy? backg…
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December 7, 2025 - Rachel VanLandingham | Lydia Camarillo | Jordan Schwartz | Lisa Graves
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A Former JAG on Hegseth and Trump's Murder Spree Which Are Not War Crimes Because We are Not at War | The Supreme Court Just Gave Republicans 30 of the 38 House Seats in Texas Before a Vote is Cast in November | The Harvard Youth Pollster Who Finds 13% of Americans Between 18 and 29 Say the U.S. is Heading in the Right Direction With Only 39% Suppo…
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December 4, 2025 - David Broder | Mstyslav Chernov | Casey Michel
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France's Fifth Government in Three Years Collapses as the Far Right in Europe Rises | A Film That Takes You Inside the Battlefield Under Russian Fire as Ukrainian Soldiers Fight and Die Defending Their Land Putin Claims As His | Trump Breaks Records Pardoning Crooked Congressmen, Scammers, Embezzlers, Fraudsters and Fanaticsbackgroundbriefing.org/d…
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December 3, 2025 - Paul Waldman | Michael Kimmage | Sarah Leah Whitson
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Trump and MAGA's Policies and Politics Are Driven By Sadism | Putin Warns of War With Europe After Which There Will Be No One Left to Negotiate With | In Spite Of the Ongoing Agony, A Plan For Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmasters…
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December 2, 2025 - Tom Nichols | Jonathan Metzl | William Hartung
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Secretary of Defense Hegseth Needs to Step Down Now! | Could the Democratic Underdog Win Today in Deep Red Tennessee? | With Affordability the Big Issue, Why Can We Afford Guns and Not Butter?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbriefing…
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December 1, 2025 - Alejandro Velasco | Alex Lawson | Sidney Blumenthal
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Trump and His Team Meet on Going to War Against Venezuela | With the House Back in Session, the Fate of Affordable Healthcare Hangs by a Thread | How Much is Melania Mentioned in the Epstein Files Trump is Trying to Suppress? backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersm…
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November 30, 2025 - Robert Young Pelton | Christine Fair | Tamar Jacoby
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An Investigation Into the CIA-Run "Kill Or Capture" Zero Units the D.C. Shooter Worked With | As Trump Blames Biden, Who is Responsible For the Chaotic U.S. Withdrawal of 76,000 Afghans Including the Shooter? | With Many Trump Teams Negotiating While Putin Has No Interest in Peace, What Impact Will the Resignation of Ukraine's Negotiator Yermak Hav…
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November 27, 2025 - Richard Parker | Jackie Mitchell | Brian Holmes
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What We Can Be Thankful For in This Otherwise Bleak Time | Talking Turkey About the Turkey Industry and Its lobbying Clout | How Art in Activism Can Uplift Dissent and Inspire Community Organizing backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedialinktr.ee/backgroundbrief…
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November 26, 2025 - Adele Stan | Julia Loktev
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Will the Shooting of 2 National Guardsmen in Washington D.C. Provide Trump With an Excuse to Invoke the Insurrection Act For Example? | A Warning to the American Press From the Filmmaker of a Powerful New Feature Documentary About Brave Young Russian Women Reporting the Truth as Putin Shuts Down Independent Media and Criminalizes Journalismbackgrou…
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November 25, 2025 - Harry Litman | James Green | Tom Mockaitis
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Will There Be Further Vindictiveness After the Dismissals of the Revenge Cases Against James Comey and Letitia James? | Bolsonaros Botched Escape Attempt and Possible Collusion With the Trump Administration | Why Are Trump, Hegseth, and Vance So Freaked Out Over the Video by Six Democratic Lawmakers Who Are Veterans backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.c…
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November 24, 2025 - Anand Giridharadas | Robert Benson | Peter Dreier
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America's Morally Bankrupt, Corrupt and Anti-Democratic Power Elite as Revealed in the Epstein Emails | Trump's Treasonous Sellout of Ukraine Is As If Chamberlain Showed Up at Munich With Hitler's "Peace Plan" | Sasha Linden Cohen on How the "Socialist" Handled the "Fascist"backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmaste…
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November 23, 2025 - Dan Alexander | William Cohan | Anders Aslund
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Trump's Decades-Long Obsession With Getting On the Forbes 400 List and How Much Saudi Money Has Lined His Pockets | Musk's $Trillion Payday and How Billionaires Donated 1 in 13 Dollars Spent in the Last Election, Over 80% of Which Went to Republicans | Trump is Shoving Putin's Wish List Down Zelensky's Throat With a Thursday Deadline to Capitulateb…
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November 20, 2025 - Lucian Truscott IV | JB Branch | Alexander Sammon
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A Dangerous and Demented Trump Calls For the Execution of Democratic Senators and Congressmen and Women Who Are Military and Intelligence Veterans | In the Service of His Billionaire Tech Bro Buddies, Trump Doubles Down on Stopping States From Regulating AI | How Ordinary Citizens Witness and Record ICE and CBP's Brutality and Crueltybackgroundbrie…
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November 19, 2025 - Jacob Heilbrunn | David Halperin | Christopher Miller
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A Weakened Trump As a Split in MAGA Emerges With Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance Jockeying to Succeed America's Most Corrupt and Disastrous President | Trump's Plan to Gut the Department of Education That Only Congress Has the Legal Right to Do | Trump is Pressuring a Weakened Zelensky to Accept a Sellout Peace Plan That is Putin's Wish Listbackgroun…
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November 18, 2025 - Ken Klippenstein | Sarah Leah Whitson | Brendan Benedict
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The Loophole in the Epstein Files Bill Passed by the House Today 427 to 1 That Allows Trump to Classify What He Does Not Want the Public to See | The Former Pariah's Lavish White House Welcome With Trump Dismissing MBS's Murder and Dismemberment of a Critic as "Things Happen" | Meta Wins the Antitrust Case Against the Tech Giant on the Basis Facebo…
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November 17, 2025 - Jonathan Larsen | Mietek Boduszynski | Ben Freeman
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The Cast of Characters Feeding the Bogus and Delusional Intel Trump is Using to Justify a War With Venezuela | Apparent Russian Sabotage of Poland's Rail Link to Ukraine | As They Throw Money at the Pentagon, When Will Our Politicians Address the Guns Versus Butter Issue?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianma…
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November 16, 2025 - Daniel Boguslaw | Faiza Patel | Aaron Regunberg
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Epstein's Ties to Foreign Leaders and How Much the CIA Has an Epstein Problem | In Targeting an Organization That Does Not Exist, Trump Can Now Target Anyone |Will AI be an Issue in the Next Election?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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November 13, 2025 - Matthew Petti | Louise Shelley | Christopher Prebble
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One of the First Journalists to Reveal the Email Trove Linking Epstein With Israeli Intelligence | The Damaging Scandal of Zelensky's Former Media Partner on the Lam With $100 Million in Energy Repairs Stolen | Does the U.S. Need Trump's Security Pact With Saudi Arabia?backgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmast…
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November 12, 2025 - Nina Burleigh | Fred Turner | Jonathan Guyer
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More Damaging Epstein Emails Emerge While the Real "Smoking Gun" Remains Epstein's Ties to Israeli Intelligence | Silicon Valley's Migration to Texas with Musk's Monarcho-Capitalism Embracing the Christian Nationalist of Petrobaptists | A New Poll That Finds GOP Voters See Trump as Tough, Intelligent or a Peacemaker While Democrats and Independents…
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November 11, 2025 - John Sweeney | Michael Mann | Olga Lautman
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backgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmediaBy Ian Masters
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November 10, 2025 - Jeet Heer | Joshua Landis | Jennifer Kavanagh
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Senate Democrats Defect to Open the Government on Republican Terms With Empty Promises |Can Trump Overcome Supporters of Israel in Congress to End US Sanctions and Stabilize Syria? | Hegseth Wants Defense Contractors on a "Wartime Footing" as He Plans to Attack Venezuelabackgroundbriefing.org/donatex.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersme…
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November 9, 2025 - Jeff Wise | David Graham | J.W. Mason
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An Assessment of Air Safety as Air Travel Melts Down | Following Orban's Example, Trump's Announces His Plan to Rig Election So That "We will never lose the midterms, and we will never lose a general election" | A Followup on Mamdani's Victory on How He Will Deal With the Affordability Crisisbackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediab…
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November 6, 2025 - Rick Wilson | Michael McDonald | John Lawrence
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Mounting Evidence the MAGA Spell Has Been Broken | As a Blue Wave Looms, What Will Trump Do to Rig the Next Election? | Nancy Pelosi's Former Chief of Staff on Her Decision to Retirebackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.socialfacebook.com/ianmastersmedia…
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November 5, 2025 - Moira Donegan | Alexander Keyssar | Michael Edison Hayden
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Having Shunned Mamdani, Will the Democratic Establishment Now Embrace Him? | California Governor Newsom's Warning That Trump Will Do Anything and Everything to Rig the Next Election | The Republicans Are the Real Radicals and They Have a Nazi Problembackgroundbriefing.org/donatetwitter.com/ianmastersmediabsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social…
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November 4, 2025 - Marion Nestle | Ryan Cooper | Dr. Ashley Koning
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After Offering to Half-Fund SNAP, Trump Turns Callousness Into Cruelty by Refusing to Fund It At All Until "Radical Left Democrats" Open Up the Government | The Billionaire-Funded Retention Election For the Pennsylvania Supreme Court That Is Going Under the Radar | The Mamdani race in NYC and Sherrill race in NJ as the Personification of the Strugg…
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