Episode 127

Trump Indictment, Effective Altruism, Moving From Blue States to Red States

Ravi and guest host Bradley Tusk — a venture capitalist, writer, and political strategist — jump straight into the facts of the Trump indictment and whether they believe Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s charges against former President Donald Trump will hold water. Then the duo switch to the multiple interpretations and definitions of effective altruism and how humankind can build a better world. Finally, they dissect the trend of people from “Blue states” like California and New York, migrating to “Red states” like Florida and Texas, and if this exodus could be politically motivated.

SHOW NOTES

Trump indictment

EP. 123 – TRUMP INDICTMENT?, BANKS, ARKANSAS YOUTH LABOR LAWS (Lost Debate, 3/21/23)
The Donald Trump Indictment, Annotated (The New York Times, 4/4/23)
Trump faces 34 felony charges (The New York Times, 4/4/23)
Trump is indicted, becoming first ex-president to face criminal charges (The New York Times, 3/30/23)
CNN Poll: Majority of Americans approve of Trump indictment (CNN, 4/3/23)
How Trump’s Indictment Could Affect The 2024 Election (FiveThirtyEight, 3/31/23)
What Donald Trump’s Indictment Reveals (The Atlantic, 3/30/23)
Analysis: A Surprise Accusation Bolsters a Risky Case Against Trump (The New York Times, 4/5/23)
In Days Before Trump Appears in Court, Few Signs Point to a Jan. 6 Repeat (The New York Times, 4/3/23)
Here are the 34 charges against Trump and what they mean (Washington Post, 4/4/23)
Trump Isn’t Above the Law, But He Shouldn’t Be Below it (New York Magazine, 4/4/23)
Why Trump’s Hush Money Matters (The Bulwark, 3/23/23)
Don’t Underestimate Alvin Bragg’s Chances Against Trump (New York Magazine, 4/3/23)
Republicans react with outrage at Trump’s indictment, threatening Bragg (The Seattle Times, 4/4/23)
The People of New York vs Donald Trump (Supreme Court of the State of New York, 4/4/23)
District Attorney Bragg Announces 34-Count Felony Indictment of Former President Donald J. Trump (Manhattan DA Press Release, 4/4/23)
 I Worry About a Failed Prosecution of Trump, but I Worry More About No Prosecution (The New York Times, 3/30/23)
Trump ceded the moral high ground on presidential indictments long ago (Washington Post, 4/1/23)
GOP Lawmakers Kneel at the Altar of Trump as He’s Indicted (Daily Beast, 4/4/23)
Trump Isn’t Above the Law, But He Shouldn’t Be Below it (New York Magazine, 4/4/23)
The People of New York vs Donald Trump (Supreme Court of the State of New York, 4/4/23)
Donald Trump faces 34 criminal charges in historic indictment (Al Jazeera, 4/4/23)
The Trump Investigation You Probably Haven’t Heard About (The Bulwark, 3/20/23)

Effective altruism revisited

EP. 114 – STATE OF THE UNION, MRBEAST, ORGANIC FOOD (Lost Debate, 2/9/23)
How effective altruism can (and should) pivot and put Sam Bankman-Fried behind it (Fast Company, 12/16/22)
The Logic of Effective Altruism (Boston Review, 7/1/15)
The why and how of effective altruism (TED Talks, 2013)
Effective Altruism As A Tower Of Assumptions (Astral Codex Ten, 8/24/22)
Why Effective Altruism is Not Effective? (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 4/20/20)
The Case for A Less Effective Altruism (The New York Times, 11/18/22)
Effective Altruism: For and Against (Social Good Stuff)
Understanding Effective Altruism’s move into politics (Slow Boring, 5/23/22)
The tasteless, dangerous rise of charity porn content (The New Statesman, 2/8/23)
What’s So Wrong With Helping? (The Dispatch, 2/3/23)
‘Effective altruism’ isn’t as newfangled as it seems (Washington Post, 2/6/23)
How to reform effective altruism after Sam Bankman-Fried (Vox, 1/24/23)
How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force (Vox, 8/8/22)
Effective Altruism’s Most Controversial Idea (Vox, 9/6/22)
Peter Singer on the lives you can Save (Ezra Klein Show, 12/6/19)
Is the effective altruism movement in trouble? (The Guardian, 11/16/22)

People moving blue to red states

The new red wave is already here (The Hill, 2/12/23)
Two Americas Index: Red-blue migration (Axios, 8/8/22)
How Florida Beat New York (The Atlantic, 2/9/23)
Americans’ local migration reached a historic low in 2022, but long-distance moves picked up (Brookings, 2/2/23)
Migration Between States (The Policy Circle)
Where People Moved in 2022 (National Association of Realtors, 1/30/23)
Top 10 Inbound Vs. Top 10 Outbound US States in 2021: How Do They Compare on a Variety of Economic, Tax, Business Climate, and Political Measures? (American Enterprise Institute, 12/29/21)
Blue States Got Too Comfortable (The Atlantic, 2/10/23)
America’s Mass Migration Intensifies As ‘Leftugees’ Flee Blue States And Counties For Red (Forbes, 3/17/21)
Census Shows South and Mountain West Gain Political Power From Population Growth (Wall Street Journal, 4/26/21)
Massive Scale Relocation by companies to the Sun Belt area in US (The Economic Times, 4/1/22)
Why Elon Musk moved to Texas—and what he really thinks of California (Fortune, 12/8/20)
State Population Totals and Components of Change: 2020-2022 (United States Census Bureau)
California’s population dropped by 500,000 in two years as exodus continues (Los Angeles Times, 2/15/23)
The Blue State Exodus Continues (Wall Street Journal, 12/27/22)
U.S. Migration Patterns Before and After the Start of the Covid-19 Pandemic (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 7/7/22)
Red state rush: Republican states saw 2022 migration boom (Washington Examiner, 1/31/23)
The Democratic exodus to blue states solidifies Republican power (Al Jazeera, 8/9/22)
Democrats’ most alarming problem (2/4/2022)
U.S. Migration Patterns Before and After the Start of the Covid-19 Pandemic (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 7/7/22)
How Austin’s Start-up Sector Won the Pandemic (Texas Monthly, 4/8/21)
Red states are building a nation within a nation (CNN, 7/26/22)