My colleague Ken Braun, who joins me today, has written extensively on the sheer scale of the environmentalist organizations opposed to emissions-free nuclear energy, which claim at least $2.3 billion in annual revenue. But what does their anti-nuclear activity look like in practice? Joining us today to discuss that is Hugo Krueger, a nuclear engineer from South Africa working in France who is also a public advocate for the technology.

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The Richest Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy

Hugo Kruger Substack

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It’s September: The kids have gone back to school, the oppressive heat dome is beginning to lift, and the sports calendar has turned from baseball (for those of us whose teams have woefully underachieved compared to their expectations) to football. But not all who take an interest in gridiron goings-on are interested in the on-field product: From team names to taking a knee, the NFL is surrounded by left-wing activists that want to push politics. Joining me to discuss the politics of pro football are my Capital Research Center colleagues Sarah Lee and Kristen Eastlick.

Native American group that wanted 'Redskins' removal is funded by Soros foundation, other leftist orgs

Latest NFL social-justice grant recipients sport George Soros connections

Coco Gauff Won. So Did Climate-Change Protestors.

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Those of us old enough to remember the panic over Y2K – a panic that was, as it turns out, mostly driven by fear of the unknown – see a certain resemblance between the year 2000 and today as artificial intelligence – popularly known as AI -- joins the party. Its emergence has been met with both excitement and trepidation. Will it make mundane tasks easier? Will it help our kids do better in school? Will large language models infect our discourse with bias? Are the graphics programs going to change art as we know it? Will Skynet become aware? And who will be funding, pushing, and regulating this next phase of tech innovation? In short, is AI something to fear or something to embrace, something to turn loose or take in hand? And how much should our always eager government get involved in its development and dispersion? Joining us today to discuss the coming AI revolution is Taylor Barkley, Director of Technology and Innovation at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University.

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Taylor Barkley

Which Way AI?

Schumer pledges ‘supercharged’ path to AI regulation when Senate returns from recess

Ranking Member Cassidy Releases White Paper on Artificial Intelligence

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The weather is unreliable, and often unpredictable—anyone who has grumbled at the weatherman’s forecast knows this. But increasingly, environmentalists demand that only the weather can generate the electricity that modern people need to maintain their standard of living. Zero-emissions is not enough: My colleague Ken Braun, who joins me today, extensively categorized the scale of environmentalist opposition to zero-emission nuclear energy.

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Opposition to Nuclear Energy

The Richest Opponents of Carbon-Free Nuclear Energy

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Electioneering by charities—“501(c)(3)s” in the trade—was forbidden, to begin with. But that has not stopped liberal Big Philanthropy from using charitable organizations for activities that dance along that legal line to help Democratic and left-wing politicians get elected. My colleague Parker Thayer recently released an extensive report on the Voter Registration Project, one such “charitable” election-winning scheme, he joins my colleague Robert Stilson and me to discuss his findings.

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REPORT: How Charities Secretly Help Win Elections

https://dailycaller.com/2023/08/15/exclusive-nonpartisan-voter-registration-org-is-actually-a-dem-get-out-the-vote-machine-report-says/

The Restriction of Political Campaign Intervention by Section 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Organizations

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Do Americans appreciate foreign nationals using their money to help Americans decide who should lead them? Honest Elections Project Action recently asked people, and—no prizes for guessing this—they don’t. Joining us to discuss this and other findings from their national poll on election-administration issues is Jason Snead of the Honest Elections Project.

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Election Integrity Measures Remain Popular

The Left-Wing Dark Money Behind the Push to Kill the Filibuster

InfluenceWatch Podcast #181: Easy to Vote, Hard to Cheat

Hansjorg Wyss

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This week, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) announced a special session of the legislature to consider various proposals related to public safety. But unusually for a reliably conservative and Republican state—Lee won 65 percent of the vote in his 2022 election campaign and both chambers of the state legislature are supermajority Republican—the session will consider gun control measures, especially so-called “red flag” laws. Joining me to discuss what’s going on in Tennessee and the gun control movement generally are my colleague Robert Stilson and John Harris, executive director of the Tennessee Firearms Association.

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The Landscape of Gun Control Advocacy

The Funders of Gun Control Advocacy

The Policies of Gun Control Advocacy

Tennessee Firearms Association

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Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, thinks schooling and school reform itself are due for a rethink. In his brief (less than 150 pages, excluding endnotes and acknowledgements) The Great School Rethink, Hess lays out his view on a new way to address the problems of American education, all informed by decades in the education policy field. Hess joins us today to discuss his Great School Rethink.

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The Great School Rethink

A Much Needed but Partial Great School Rethink

Teach for America

1619 Project

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We’re trying something new for this week: A round-up of stories and discussions not long enough by themselves to carry a podcast, all put together. Joining me to discuss solar panels and China, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s spousal hypocrisy, the burgeoning scandal around COVID origins, and ESG investing’s effects on the energy sector is my colleague Ken Braun.

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Solar Panels Are Three Times More Carbon-Intensive Than IPCC Claims

The Sheldon Whitehouse Ethics Mirror

Journalists should be skeptical of all sources —including scientists

Just Court-Pack a Majority

Fire Sale

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“When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of our children can breathe clean air and drink clean water.” That was the eyebrow-raising statement Vice President Kamala Harris made to a Baltimore audience last week; while the Biden White House amended the transcript to indicate she intended to say “reduce pollution,” the environmentalist movement has more than its fair share of associations with those who would “reduce population.” Joining me to discuss Harris’s comments and the connections between environmentalism and population control are my colleagues Sarah Lee and Ken Braun.

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Kamala Harris’s Revealing Malthusian Malapropism

Population Council

John Holdren

Paul Ehrlich’s Population Dud

A Darker Shade of Green: Environmentalism’s Origins in Eugenics

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