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L.A.’s Air Was Once A Punchline. It Could Be Again
Smog was once as much a symbol of L.A. as palm trees — a bane to public health and a national punchline on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show.”
My guest o…
1 day, 2 hours ago
Iran, Hungary, Ukraine: The World Is Running on Outdated Legacy Software
The old rules are gone. The new ones aren’t written yet. And no one in charge knows how to write them. Detail in my recent WhoWhatWhy podcast.
The ol…
4 days ago
How Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while
My California Sun conversation with Peter Richardson, author of the new book “Brand New Beat: The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine.” A time when …
1 week, 4 days ago
AI Is Humans, All the Way Down
he inside story of how greed, ambition, and rivalry destroyed AI’s safety mechanisms — and why human failings, not technology, are driving us toward …
2 weeks ago
Social Media Had Gun-Level Immunity. That Just Ended
A jury recently shattered Big Tech’s legal shield. Meta and YouTube: guilty of engineering addiction. This is social media’s tobacco moment .
Two indu…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Understanding Global Oil Shocks
Severin Borenstein, is a professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and one of he nations leading experts on the economics of energy. He join…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
The Unexplained War: Stumbling Toward World War III
War without strategy. Drones without limits. Data without wisdom. How the Iran conflict is stumbling toward World War III — and no one can explain wh…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
The Chavez Myth Comes Apart
Miriam Pawel, author of the definitive Cesar Chavez biography, "The Crusades of Cesar Chavez," joins me on this recent California Sun Podcast to ref…
1 month ago
We Cut Off Its Oil & Attacked Its Partners; China Seems Willing to Wait...Why?
China loses two oil partners to US action in Iran. Their response? Strategic patience. Are we watching restraint or preparation for what’s next?
There…
1 month ago
The Brief Life of Public Outrage: Why Corporate Scandals Matter—Until They Don't
On this recent TalkCocktial podcast I’m joined by Oxford political scientist Pepper Culpepper, who has spent a decade studying when corporate scandal…
1 month, 1 week ago