Next Round

This podcast features Debra Saunders, the long-time columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle who turned Trump White House beat reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  These days Debra Saunders is a fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership.  Debra discusses what it was like to be a member of the White House press corps during the Trump years, reporting during the coronavirus pandemic, and offers her insights on the state of California.

In this podcast our guest is Anne Marie Schubert, District Attorney for Sacramento County.  Ms. Schubert along with 44 DAs are suing Gov. Newsom for his policy to allow 76,000 inmates – including many who committed violent crimes – to attain early release with good behavior credits.  We also discuss the state’s growing soft-on-crime approach and the rise in crime in major cities across California

The featured guest for this podcast Erik Jaffe, partner at Schaerr Jaffe, a constitutional lawyer, and a PRI fellow in Legal Studies.  Erik takes us through a tour of the major U.S. Supreme Court cases this session and the constitutional issues in question, from Obamacare to the First Amendment. Erik also discusses what he thinks of Pres. Biden’s bipartisan commission on Supreme Court reforms.

This podcast features Venezuelan Jorge Galicia, a lawsuit student who escaped his country and is now speaking to college students nationwide about his experience.  Jorge recounts Venezuela’s path, beginning with socialist policies such as free college and free health care, then descending to the authoritarian regime it is today.  This podcast was first aired for PRI’s Young Leaders Circle.  The interview was conducted by Evan Harris, director of YLC.

This week’s podcast features Steve Greenhut, author of PRI’s new book Winning the Water Wars.  Steve gives an update on California’s drought and how we got here, after failing to prepare during the previous non-drought years.  He discusses current legislation, the concept of water markets, and countries that have better managed their water issues – namely Israel.  Ro and Tim discuss the Governor’s revised budget and the blizzard of billions Newsom plans to spend.

This week’s podcast features Robert Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation.  Bob Poole, one of the leading transportation policy experts in the nation – discusses Pres. Biden’s so-called infrastructure plan and what’s really in it.  Mr. Poole also discusses California’s poor infrastructure and ideas to improve it, including public-private partnerships and market-oriented solutions.

PRI’s guest in this podcast is Nolan Gray, an urban planner and currently a Ph.D. student at UCLA. Housing affordability and housing shortages are two key reasons so many Californians are fleeing the state. Nolan discusses why housing is so expensive and the regulatory barriers that are preventing more houses from being built.  He also offers policy recommendations to help more Californians find an affordable place to live.

This week’s guest is Dr. Henry Miller, PRI senior fellow in health care studies.  In addition to being a physician, Dr. Miller was a former official at the FDA and founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology. Dr. Miller provides an update on the pandemic, the progress of vaccine distribution, and his perspective on the CDC’s pause on the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.  Co-hosts Rowena and Tim discuss Biden’s first 100 days, the recall effort, and new gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner.

Julian Morris, Senior Fellow at Reason and a Senior Scholar at the International Center for Law and Economics, joins us for a discussion on environmental topics as we mark Earth Day 2021.  We discuss the Biden Administration's "green infrastructure" proposals, California's big government energy policies, whether government fuel emission standards have delivered on their promises, and how California's and America's environmental policy regimes have worsened the state's housing crisis and undermined growth in so many areas of the economy.

Prominent conservative scholar Charles Kesler discusses his new book Crisis of the Two Constitutions – The Rise, Decline, and Recovery of American Greatness with PRI senior fellow Steve Hayward.  Prof. Kesler is the editor of the Claremont Review of Books, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute.