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The Daily Blast: Unwell Trump Rages Wildly at Many Targets as GOP Starts Turning on Him Apr 08, 2025

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As the chaos grows around President Trump’s tariffs, the Mad King is now raging wildly in many directions. He erupted over China’s reciprocal tariffs, threatening dark retribution. He exploded at Republicans, because a handful of them are now moving to reign in his power, which he’s not taking well. Faced with this turmoil, Trump insists the tariffs are already getting results. But the arguments don’t add up. Between this and the cracks now showing in GOP support for him, it’s clear that this will get harder for him to hold together. We talked to Kathryn Anne Edwards, an economist and commentator who has a new piece arguing that the coming recession will be entirely a creation of Trump’s policies. She digs into the deeper incoherence underlying all of this madness—and explains why Trump and the GOP won’t be able to paper it over forever.

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AI, Energy, and Climate: Alp Kucukelbir: AI in Industry, Education and More Apr 07, 2025

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Alp Kucukelbir serves as Chief Scientist at Fero Labs, teaches two courses on AI and climate change at Columbia University, and wrote several chapters in the AI for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap (Second Edition). Join host David Sandalow in a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Kucukelbir as they discuss the use of AI in advanced manufacturing, educating students in the AI era, how to explain complex AI topics, and more.

The AI, Energy and Climate Podcast is a special series from the DSR Network sponsored by NEDO and hosted by David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

AI for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap -- https://www.icef.go.jp/roadmap and transitiondigital.org/ai-climate-roadmap.

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The DSR Daily for April 7: Markets Crash, Trump Golfs Apr 07, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Monday, we discuss the weekend fall out of the new Trump tariffs, the DOGE hackathon, Canadian travel and more.

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The Daily Blast: “Disaster”: Trump Voters Suddenly Realize How Badly He Screwed Them Apr 07, 2025

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President Donald Trump has more support in rural America than any U.S. politician in decades, and farmers remain overwhelmingly loyal to him. Yet with Trump’s tariffs unleashing a trade war and China striking back with retaliatory tariffs, farmers and their representatives have declared again and again and again that this will be absolutely brutal for them. As one put it, if farmers don’t get a government bailout, they will face “a disaster.” Another says farmers are “shocked.” Meanwhile, nearly a third of Republicans fear Trump’s tariffs will have a negative impact, and fewer than half say Trump’s policies are making them better off. We talked to Tom Schaller, the co-author of the book White Rural Rage, who explains why farmers are set to get screwed so badly, what all this says about the nature of rural support for Trump, and how Democrats should capitalize.

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Siliconsciousness: The AI Competition: Public Policy Strategies: Part 2 Apr 04, 2025

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Welcome to part 2 of our special event, “The AI Competition: Public Policy Strategies”. The event, co-hosted by MIT Technology Review, brings together some of the leading voices in AI policy from the public and private sectors to role-play these complex issues. These AI leaders play roles in the US, China, and The EU, and enact policies that best align with their roles interests in the AI space. This episode contains the second and final phase of the game. We hope you enjoy this insightful episode.

Our Players:

US Government Players
White House (NSA, AI & Crypto Czar, Assistant to Pres. For S&T) - Doug Calidas, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs for Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI)
Government research institutions (funding) - Stephen Ezell
Standards and governance (NIST, DOS, etc.) - Vivek Wadhwa, Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Engineering at Silicon Valley
Regulatory and trade (DOS, Treasury, etc.) - Susan Ariel Aaronson, American author, public speaker, and GWU professor
Department of Defense- Daniel Castro, vice president at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)
Commerce Department - Anupam Chander, Scott K Ginsburg Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center
Intel Community and Cyber Defense - David Mussington, professor of the practice the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, and currently serves as the CISA Executive Assistant Director
Congress/State Department - Cameron Kelly, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institutution
China players
Central Military Committee representatives - Rohit Talwar, founder of FastFuture
Intelligence and cyber - Daniel Richardson, President of Indepth Global AI
Public/Private Industry - Sarah Myers West, co-director at AI Now
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)/Ministry of Industry and Information technology (MIIT) - David Lin, Senior Director for Future Technology Platforms at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)
European Union
Governance- Courtney Radsch, Director, Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets Institute
Military/Security - Gordon LaForge, senior policy analyst at New America
Regulatory - Michelle Nie, EU Tech Policy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute
Industrial and research policy - David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Intelligence Agencies - Rumman Chowdhury, scientist, entrepreneur, and former responsible artificial intelligence lead at Accenture
Civil Society
Large players (ChatGPT, META, Amazon, Microsoft) - Cody Buntain, Assistant Professor; Affiliate Fellow, UMD Honors College – Artificial Intelligence Cluster
Medium players - Ramayya Krishnan, Dean, Heinz College Of Information Systems And Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
Open-source communities - Jay Lee, Clark Distinguished Chair Professor and Director of Industrial AI Center in the Mechanical Engineering Dept. of the Univ. of Maryland College Park
Advocacy Organizations - David Goldston, director of government affairs at the Natural Resources Defense Council
Legal Community - Kahaan Mehta, Research Fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Universities and academia
Large universities - Nita Farahany, Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law
Smaller schools - Anand Patwardhan, professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland
Medium Universities - Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau, CEO and Publisher at MIT Technology Review
Government laboratories (Defense, DOE, etc.) - Emily M. Bender, University of Washington Professor

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The DSR for April 4: Trade Wars: China Strikes Back Apr 04, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Friday, we cover China’s retaliatory measures on US tariffs, the plummeting stock market, the puzzling dismissal of senior national security officials, and more.

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The Daily Blast: “Horrifying”: Trump’s Weird, Confused Rant to Media as Markets Tanked Apr 04, 2025

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After President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from all over the globe, prompting the markets to implode, he took a question about it on Thursday. He ranted and rambled delusionally about how everything is just great, bizarrely likened the country to a patient that had just undergone surgery without grasping why his metaphor is the opposite of reassuring, and spouted more nonsense about money pouring into our country. On top of all that, his imposition of the tariffs is likely an enormous and grotesque abuse of power. And because of this, the prospects for stopping them are not wholly nonexistent. We talked to congressional scholar Norm Ornstein, who walks us through how Congress can act, what Democrats can do to pressure Republicans to join in doing just that, and why Trump’s engaged in “horrifying folly.”

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Time for Dems to Channel Nancy Reagan: Just Say No Apr 03, 2025

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There’s no other way around it - Donald Trump’s tariffs reek of idiocy piled high with stupidity with devastating ramifications for 99% of Americans outside of the filthy rich. Democrats are beginning to make waves, both in the Wisconsin election and with Cory Booker’s filibuster. But is it enough? Or do we need to be doing more, and what does that look like? Tune in as David Rothkopf and Norm Ornstein tackle all of this and more.

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AI, Energy and Climate: Chris James Part 2: AI, Power Supplies and Innovation Apr 03, 2025

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Join host David Sandalow and Chris James, CEO and Founder of Engine No. 1, as they discuss how to supply the rapidly growing demand for electric power in the United States, Engine No. 1's recent deals with Chevron and Crusoe Energy, and the role of AI in promoting innovation in energy technologies.

The AI, Energy and Climate Podcast is a special series from the DSR Network sponsored by NEDO and hosted by David Sandalow, Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

AI for Climate Change Mitigation Roadmap -- https://www.icef.go.jp/roadmap and transitiondigital.org/ai-climate-roadmap.

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The DSR Daily for April 3: Post Liberation Day Deep Dive Apr 03, 2025

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On the DSR Daily for Thursday, we delve into the new tariffs introduced yesterday from a variety of angles, Elon Musk's new news and more.

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