This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch are joined by affiliate editor Liz Wolfe to debate President Donald Trump’s govt order blocking states from implementing their very own synthetic intelligence laws. The panel debates whether or not a single nationwide framework for AI is critical to maintain American tech corporations aggressive or whether or not it represents a critical blow to federalism. In addition they look at the White Home probably reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug and what that change might imply for the hashish trade, tax coverage, and federal drug enforcement.
The editors then flip to mass shootings in Australia and at Brown College, together with the actions of a bystander credited with saving lives at Bondi Seaside, and what these incidents recommend about gun management debates. They talk about the U.S. seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker and threats of land strikes in opposition to the Nicolás Maduro regime, and canopy the conviction of Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai beneath China’s nationwide safety regulation and what it alerts for press freedom and U.S.-China relations. A listener asks whether or not fashionable socialism displays ethical aspirations that could possibly be redirected towards liberty slightly than centralized energy.
0:00—Trump blocks states from regulating AI
10:31—Reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug
18:39—Mass shootings within the U.S. and Australia
26:59—U.S. seizes Venezuelan oil tanker
36:48—Listener query on optimism for socialism
46:08—Jimmy Lai discovered responsible by Hong Kong court docket
57:12—Weekly cultural suggestions
Talked about in This Podcast
“Donald Trump Tries To Override State AI Regulations via Executive Order,” by Jack Nicastro
“Trump Will Let Nvidia Sell Chips to China—but the Feds Will Get 25 Percent of the Profits,” by Tosin Akintola
“Trump’s Plan To Reclassify Marijuana Would Leave Federal Prohibition Essentially Untouched,” by Jacob Sullum
“Stoner King Trump,” by Liz Wolfe
“Shootings at Bondi and Brown,” by Liz Wolfe
“Trump Dares Congress To Take Its War Powers Seriously in Venezuela,” by Matthew Petti
“Trump Is Still Claiming He Saves ‘25,000 American Lives’ When He Blows Up a Suspected Drug Boat,” by Jacob Sullum
“Mark Clifford: A Political Prisoner Fights for Free Speech in China,” by Billy Binion
“Is Free Speech Doomed in Hong Kong?” By Jack Nicastro
“‘I Owe Freedom My Life’: Jimmy Lai Is Imprisoned for Criticizing the Chinese Government,” by John Stossel
“Hong Kong’s Free Press Is Dying,” by Liz Wolfe
- Producer: Paul Alexander
- Video Editor: Ian Keyser
