Apr 3, 2024
Jennifer Doleac is Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures, a major funder of criminal justice research and reform in the United States. She joins to discuss trends in crime, causes and deterents of crime, and cheap or easy ways we can make the country safer.
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Mar 27, 2024
Adam Andrzejewski is CEO and Founder of Open The Books, an organization which files thousands of FOIA requests each year to document and expose government budgets and employee salaries, to identity waste and fraud.
Website: https://www.openthebooks.com/
Feb 28, 2024
Xi Xinping, the leader of China, has dramatically consolidated power and extended his reign indefinitely. What does he think and what does he want? Steve Tsang is the Director of the SOAS China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He is the author of “The Political Thought of Xi...
Feb 21, 2024
Rudyard William Lynch is the host of WhatifAlHist, a popular history channel on YouTube.
He joins to discuss how the origins and circumstances of America’s regions permanently imprinted on its cultures and political outlooks.
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Feb 7, 2024
Is AI biased towards a particular viewpoint, and if so, how does it affect national sentiment and elections? Maxim Lott has built an AI tracking website that charts the political orientation of Large Language Models, and watches their development in real time. He joins to discuss.
Maxim’s Website: trackingai.org