Stay Tuned with Preet

Guest host John Carlin speaks with Dmitri Alperovitch, Chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a non-profit focused on advancing US prosperity and global leadership. He is also co-founder and the former CTO at CrowdStrike, a leading cybersecurity company. Alperovitch reflects on his recent trip to Ukraine where he met with senior government officials, the aftermath of the mercenary leader Ye...

Joshua Yaffa is a contributing writer at The New Yorker where he focuses on Russia and its war in Ukraine. Yaffa’s 2020 book, “Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia,” won the Orwell Prize for its depiction of everyday life in Russia. Yaffa and Preet discuss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s attempted coup last month and the message it sends about Putin’s power. They also talk abou...

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss a Louisiana federal judge’s order that restricts Biden administration officials from communicating with social media companies about content moderation. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down: – Donald Trump’s request to delay the Mar-a-Lago documents trial until after the 2024 presidential election; – Th...

Andrea Crosta is the executive director and co-founder of Earth League International, an NGO that fights wildlife and environmental crime. Crosta joins Preet to discuss the illegal trafficking of elephant ivory and rhino horns, as well as efforts by Earth League International to investigate the criminal wildlife trade.    References & Supplemental Materials: Website for Earth League International...

Few people understand the Supreme Court better than Kate Shaw. She’s a professor of constitutional law at the Cardozo School of Law, an ABC legal analyst, and a co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast. She joins Preet to discuss the Court’s recent controversial decisions on affirmative action, LGBTQ rights, and student loan forgiveness. Plus, what’s on the docket next term.  Don’t miss the Insider...

Jared Cohen is a foreign policy expert who served as a member of the State Department’s Policy Planning staff under both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. He currently serves as the President of Global Affairs at Goldman Sachs. Cohen joins Preet to discuss his recent article, “The Rise of Geopolitical Swing States,” and how the US and China will compete to shape geopolitics in the years to com...

Suzanne Nossel is the CEO of PEN America, a non-profit dedicated to protecting free speech at home and abroad. She’s also served at the highest levels of American foreign policy, first as the Deputy to the UN Ambassador under Richard Holbrooke, and later as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under Hillary Clinton. Nossel joins Preet to discuss the recent rise of book bans, the Biden administrat...

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the leaked audio recording in which former President Donald Trump bragged about retaining, what sounds to be, a classified document outlining a potential United States attack on Iran. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down: – The testimony by IRS whistleblowers who accused Justice Department leadership an...

Preet speaks with Caroline Kitchener, a reporter covering abortion for the Washington Post, about the national reproductive rights landscape a year after the Dobbs decision overturned Roe.   REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS: Caroline Kitchener bylines  Roe v. Wade (1/22/1973)  Opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, 6/24/2022 Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, SCOTUSBlog...

Sally Jenkins is a sports columnist and feature writer at the Washington Post. She is known for infusing her sports coverage with politics, history, and culture. Jenkins joins Preet to discuss her new book, “The Right Call: What Sports Teaches Us About Work and Life,” and her thoughts on the merger between the PGA and Saudi-backed LIV golf tour.  Plus, new developments in the Mar-a-Lago documents...

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss Hunter Biden’s expected guilty plea on two federal tax charges, and his agreement to enter a pretrial diversion agreement on a gun charge. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down developments in the Donald Trump cases: – The Washington Post report that the FBI and DOJ resisted opening an investigation into...

Preet speaks with Abha Khanna, who successfully argued the Allen v. Milligan voting rights case before the Supreme Court. The 5-4 decision, with conservative justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh joining the three liberal justices, stunned legal experts. Khanna is a partner at the Elias Law Group, a voting rights law firm. In Milligan, she represented a group of Black voters from Alabama whose...

What happens when the public loses faith in the Supreme Court? Michael Waldman is the president of the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law. He’s out with a new book called The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America. He joins Preet to discuss the history of SCOTUS overreaches and how the ensuing public backlash has shaped American politics.  Plus, Preet reacts to Donal...

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the importance of evidence from Evan Corcoran, Donald Trump’s lawyer and a key witness, to DOJ’s classified documents case against the former president. Preet and Joyce also react to Senator Lindsey Graham’s argument that it is “absolutely ridiculous” to charge Trump under the Espionage Act. In the full episode, P...

In this special emergency episode of Stay Tuned In Brief, Preet is joined by former U.S. Attorney and CAFE Insider co-host Joyce Vance to discuss the federal indictment of Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith in the classified documents matter.  For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/in-brief-trump-indicted-again/  Stay informed. For analysis of t...

Dr. Niobe Way is a professor of Applied Psychology at NYU, where she’s the founder of the Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity. Her decades-long research focuses on addressing the “crisis of connection”—a cultural phenomenon of loneliness that plagues our nation. She joins Preet to discuss what’s causing this crisis, and how to fix it. Plus, could DOJ strike a plea deal with Trump th...

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the meeting between Trump’s defense lawyers and DOJ prosecutors as Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Mar-A-Lago documents investigations nears the end. Who would be in attendance? Would a plea deal be discussed? And how did Preet and Joyce handle such meetings when they were U.S. Attorneys?  In the full episode, Preet...

Few people know more about Vladimir Putin than Bill Browder. Browder, an investor and political activist, is the architect of the Magnitsky Act, which allows the US government to sanction foreign nationals who have perpetrated human rights abuses.  One of Browder’s key allies in the passage of the Magnitsky Act was a fellow activist named Vladimir Kara-Murza. Kara-Murza is now imprisoned in a Russ...

While parking can be a nuisance, it's also a major—and often overlooked—policy issue. Henry Gabar, a staff writer at Slate covering urban policy, is out with a new book called “Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.” He joins Preet to discuss how parking shaped the 20th century urban landscape, and how it continues to influence modern urbanism debates around everything from affordable hou...

In this special episode of the CAFE Insider podcast, former Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General John Carlin interviews Chris Inglis, while Preet and Joyce are out. Inglis recently served as the first U.S. National Cyber Director, in which role he advised President Biden on cybersecurity issues and helped develop a national cyber strategy. Before that, Inglis served as Deputy Director of the Nation...

David Autor, economics professor at MIT, is widely regarded as one of the top labor economists in the world. Preet and Autor discuss what artificial intelligence tools will mean for jobs, and how technological innovations have impacted the labor market from the Industrial revolution until today. Plus, a U.S. Attorney resigns after investigations by multiple federal watchdog agencies found evidence...

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the oral arguments in a case challenging FDA approval of the abortion pill Mifepristone, where a panel of 5th Circuit judges appeared likely to restrict access to the drug. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down: – Writer E. Jean Carroll’s new defamation allegations against former President Donald Trump; ...

What is the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” and why does it matter? Preet speaks with Steve Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas School of Law and the author of “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.”  References & Supplemental Materials: Steve Vladeck, “The Shadow Docket,” Barnes & Noble, 5/16/23 “Major Questions Doctri...

Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a former professor of national security at the US Naval War College. He joins Preet to discuss Donald Trump’s third presidential campaign, the state of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the real meaning of terms that are often thrown around in our political discourse, including “fascism” and “socialism.” Plus, Special Counsel John Durham finally release...

In this excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss the indictment of Rep. George Santos on 13 counts, including wire fraud, theft of public funds, and making false statements to Congress. They also assess the potential impact of the charges on his ability to continue serving in the House of Representatives. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce break down: – A fede...