Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the

news. We'll begin with the latest gun massacre of young children in a church shot down as they

were praying on the first day at school. While Trump and Project 2025 are killing off what

little restrictions on dangerous people purchasing military-style assault rifles. We are left to question

the lack of family values when it comes to the blindness of parents with troubled kids who buy

them guns, not to mention Musk and Zuckerberg, spreading the dark fantasies of these

budding mass murderers on their social media platforms.

Joining us from Minneapolis is David Schultz,

a professor of political science at Hamline University and University of Minnesota School of Law.

He's the author of 30 books and various articles

on American politics, ethics, election law and the media.

Most recently, presidential swing states, Why only 10 matter, election law and democratic theory,

and American politics in the age of ignorance, why lawmakers choose belief over research.

His latest book is generational politics in the United States, from the silence to Gen Z and beyond.

Then we'll speak with Moira Donigan, writer and residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender

Research at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books,

book forum, and the Paris Review, and she's a co-host of the podcast, In Bed with the Right,

and a columnist at The Guardian,

where her latest article we will discuss is, the case against Kilmer Abrago-Garcia,

is a study in sadistic absurdity.

Then finally, we'll examine how one of America's best presidents shifted his strategies

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