Latest Money in politics Podcast Episodes
S5E26: Lifeboats: Jon Stever
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - February 20, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsIn 2020, in the middle of a pandemic, Jon Stever launched an extraordinary experiment to draw together a representative sample of the world to discuss the climate and ecological crisis the world is facing. In this conversation, I talk to him about how he and his team did that, and what it teache...
S5E25: Lifeboats: David Farrell
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - January 30, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsIreland has been perhaps the most impressive example of citizen assemblies addressing national issues in a new and edifying way. David Farrell is an academic who has studied the Irish example. I talk with him about what Ireland can teach the rest of the world.
S5E24: Lifeboats: Katrín Oddsdóttir
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - January 26, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsKatrín Oddsdóttir is a founding mother of the still-not-ratified Iceland Constitution. In 2012, the people of Iceland told their Parliament to adopt a constitution based on the draft that she and 24 other Icelanders crafted. They had crafted their draft based upon the results from two citizens a...
S5E23: Lifeboats: Claudia Chwalisz
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - January 23, 2024 17:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsClaudia Chwalisz is a social entrepreneur, spreading the gospel of citizen assemblies. In this episode we talk to her about citizens assemblies' potential and how they are spreading across the world.
S5E22: Lifeboats: Kim Polese
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - January 19, 2024 17:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsNot all AI is democracy ending AI. Some can support democracy and make it better. In this episode, I talk to Kim Polese, whose career launching transformative technologies (beginning with Java) has landed with a democracy enhancing AI, CrowdSmart. We talk about its potential, as well as the open...
S5E21: Lifeboats: David Van Reybrouck
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - January 16, 2024 17:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsDavid Van Reybrouck's book, Against Elections, helped crystalize a movement for citizen assemblies. In my conversation with him, we talk about the origin of this idea, and how it could complement democracy.
S5E20: Lifeboats: Chloe Maxim / Canyon Woodward
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - January 12, 2024 17:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsChloe Maxim and Canyon Woodward built a people focused movement in rural Maine to change the way politics works. I talk to them about their book, Dirt Road Revival, and the organization they've launched, DirtRoadOrganizing.org, aiming to change how we do politics, for the better.
S5E19: Lifeboats: Eli Pariser
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - January 09, 2024 17:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsEli Pariser, Executive Director of MoveOn at 23, and founder of UpWorthy, talks to me about creating healthy online spaces, and democratic activism that builds up democracy rather than tearing it down.
S5E18: Lifeboats: Josh Greene
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - December 29, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsAfter hope, we need health. Josh Greene, professor of psychology at Harvard University and author of Moral Tribes talks to me about building healthier engagement between increasingly polarized citizens.
S5E17: Lifeboats: Jennifer Pahlka
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - December 26, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsJennifer Pahlka, founder of the Code for America and former Deputy CTO, talks with me about improving digital governmental capacity, working from her new book, Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Era and How We Can Do Better.
S5E16: Lifeboats: Brink Lindsey
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - December 22, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsOur first lifeboat is hope — hope that government could actually do good. Brink Lindsey, formerly of the Cato Institute, and now Director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center, talks to me about governmental capacity, and how we could make it better.
S5E15: Lifeboats: Intro
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - December 19, 2023 17:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsWe can make our unrepresentative representative democracy representative. But AI may mean that's not enough. This episode introduces the final section of this season — lifeboats: the changes we could make to make it so democracy can survive.
S5E14: Gashed Hull: AI: Tristan Harris
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - December 15, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsAI has already affected our society fundamentally. That effect first happened through social media. In this episode, we speak with Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, about that first effect, and what we can expect as AI evolves.
S5E13: Gashed Hull: Media: Ben Smith
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - December 12, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsWhat happens when news must compete? How does that affect the news? In this episode, we talk to Ben Smith, a journalist and entrepreneur who played a central role in the transformation of media through social media. His book, Traffic, tells that story better than any other just now.
S5E12: Gashed Hull: Social Media: Jonathan Haidt
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - December 01, 2023 20:44 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsNo technology in the last two generations has more affected ordinary life and ordinary politics more profoundly than social media. In this episode, we talk to NYU Stern School of Business Professor Jonathan Haidt about how social media has changed us, and especially our kids, and what we might d...
S5E11: Gashed Hull: Broadcast Democracy: Markus Prior
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - November 28, 2023 18:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsWhat was media like? How has media changed? In this episode, we talk to Princeton Professor Markus Prior about the architecture of public media, over the period of what he calls "broadcast democracy," and in the period we're living within today. How does that architecture affect the politics tha...
S5E10: Gashed Hull: A Rational Public: Ben Page and Robert Shapiro
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - November 24, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsThere was a time when the presumption of democracy — that the people were rational and guided our democracy to reasoned conclusions — was true. Or tru-ish. In this episode, we speak with the authors of one of the most important work studying this relatively healthy period, Ben Page and Robert Sh...
S5E09: Gashed Hull: Intro
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - November 21, 2023 17:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsThe premise of the first part to this season is that our broken democracy can be fixed. The solutions are clear and achievable. Many of them would be enacted if the Democrats regained sufficient control of our government. But in this part, we explore why these solutions won't be enough. We can r...
S5E08: Overturned Tables: The Senate: Marty Paone
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - November 17, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsThe obscure rules of the Senate are an important part of the dysfunction of American democracy today. In this episode, we speak to a former Secretary for the Majority of the United States Senate and, for the last two years of the Obama administration, the Deputy Assistant to the President for Le...
S5E07: Overturned Tables: Primaries: Nick Troiano
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - November 14, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsJust 8% of voters elect 83% of the House: This is the fact standing behind the reform proposed by Nick Troiano in his book, The Primary Solution, which we discuss in this episode. The problem is truly astonishing. And the solution is quite genius.
S5E06: Overturned Tables: Representativeness: Nick Stephanopoulos
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - November 10, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsDemocracy reform needs a target. We can say things like "representative democracy must be representative," but what does that exactly mean? In this episode, we speak with Harvard Law Professor Nick Stephanopoulos about his conception of representativeness — "alignment" — and what that says about...
S5E05: Overturned Tables: Vouchers: Jen Heerwig
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - November 07, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsEven great ideas need to be studied and understood scientifically. Jennifer Heerwig has done more than anyone studying the effects of the voucher experiment in Seattle, Washington. In this episode, we hear what she has learned, and what that could mean for reform more generally.
S5E04: Overturned Tables: Vouchers: Alan Durning
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - October 31, 2023 16:28 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsThe single best reform for the way we fund campaigns would be democracy vouchers. In this episode, we speak to the man who heard about this idea and then made it real in Seattle.
S5E03: Overturned Tables: SuperPACs: Ron Fein
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - October 27, 2023 19:19 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsThe assumption of most lawyers — or Americans — who know the word "SuperPAC" is that the Supreme Court has declared that the First Amendment protects SuperPACs. In this episode, you'll learn why that assumption is flat-out false, and about the fight to end SuperPAC money in America's democracy.
S5E02: Overturned Tables: Democracy Reform: John Sarbanes
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - October 24, 2023 18:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsReform is possible. Congressman John Sarbanes is proof. Sarbanes is the most important architect of democracy reform in Congress today. In this episode, Lessig and Sarbanes speak about the For the People Act, and where reform will continue.
S5E01: Our own Titanic: Overturned tables, a Gashed Hull and the Search for Lifeboats
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - October 20, 2023 20:40 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsThe new season of Another Way is finally here! In this episode, Lawrence Lessig outlines his plan for the season, which will eventually be turned into a book. Listeners are invited to reconceptualize the crisis that American democracy faces and to join Lessig in the search for democracy's "lifeb...
Our Strategy to Cancel SuperPACs
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - October 12, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsIn this episode, Lawrence Lessig outlines our plan to fight back against SuperPACs. He explains the logical mistake in SpeechNow v. FEC, why we launched a video competition (with a $50,000 prize!), and the legal strategy that could render SuperPACs largely powerless. For more information on the...
A Pathway to Regulating SuperPACs, with Ron Fein
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - August 31, 2023 16:58 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsIn this episode, Lessig speaks to Ron Fein, the Legal Director for Free Speech For People. The two discuss a major legal mistake made by the courts, which, if corrected, would allow states to regulate SuperPACs. They discuss efforts by Free Speech For People and Equal Citizens to bring to light t...
Taking Seriously The Threats Posed by A.I., with Tristan Harris
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - July 21, 2023 23:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsIn this episode, Lawrence Lessig speaks to Tristan Harris, the co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Humane Technology, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to align technology with humanity’s best interests. Lessig and Harris discuss the (real, not sci-fi-inspired) threats pos...
An Oakland Ballot Initiative That Could Inspire The Nation
Another Way, by Lawrence Lessig - November 04, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsAdam Eichen speaks with Jonathan Mehta Stein (Executive Director of California Common Cause) and Vernetta Woods (IVE Team leader at Oakland Rising Action). They discuss the innovative fair elections initiative that will appear on this year's midterm ballot in Oakland and how it could inspire simi...
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