Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at background briefing. I'm me and

Masters, and today we'll examine a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin on this Thanksgiving with an attempt to find what we can be thankful for in these bleak times ahead of a regime of aggressive malevolence,

poised to assault American democracy, destroy government as we know it,

and turn our justice system into a tool of vengeance for a sick, weak,

wannabe strongman to round up what Trump calls the enemy within.

Joining us is Richard Parker, who teaches economics and public policy at Harvard's Kennedy

School of Government and is a senior fellow at the Shorenstein Center.

He's the former managing

editor of Ramparts, was a co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, and serves on the editorial

board of the nation. His books include The Myth of the Middle Class and John Kenneth Galbraith,

his life, his politics, his economics. Then we'll look into how women can resist and fight back against a regime with a cabinet

full of sexual predators and Fox News junkyard dogs yapping right-wing talking points propelled by

hatred and misogyny. Joining us is Moira Donaghan, writer in 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. She is the host of the podcast In Bed with the Right and a columnist

at The Guardian, where her latest article is, we must defend elective abortions, not just the

most politically palatable cases.

Then finally, we will explore what we as individuals can do to resist and overcome the coming

darkness and speak with Stephen Schwartz, a scientist, futurist, award-winning author of both fiction

and non-fiction. He is a distinguished associate scholar at the California Institute for Human Science

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