Trump Blocked: Slush Fund & Kennedy Center
In this Insider Podcast episode, Preet and Joyce Vance examine three breaking legal stories involving former President Donald Trump: the potential abandonment of his $1.776 billion DOJ anti‑weaponization fund after two court defeats, a federal judge’s order barring Trump from adding his name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and a Justice Department probe into E. Jean Carroll’s defamation claims against Trump. The hosts highlight how the Kennedy Center ruling underscores statutory limits on self‑honor, while the DOJ fund saga and Carroll investigation illustrate ongoing attempts to curb Trump’s financial and reputational maneuvers. Vance brings her expertise as a former federal prosecutor to dissect the legal precedents and constitutional implications of each case.
Transcript: America’s Cybersecurity Crisis Starts With Software (W/Jen Easterly)
Jen Easterly, former CISA director, argues that America’s cyber crisis stems from poor software quality rather than a pure security problem. Decades of market incentives have pushed vendors to prioritize speed and features over secure code, creating a massive market...
America’s Cybersecurity Crisis Starts With Software (W/Jen Easterly)
Former CISA director Jen Easterly, now CEO of the RSA Conference, argues that America’s cybersecurity crisis stems primarily from insecure software rather than policy gaps. She explains how today’s development practices embed vulnerabilities that nation‑state actors and criminal groups readily...
Book Excerpt: "Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness Are Empowering Each Other"
An estimated 380,000 Americans with serious mental illness (SMI) are behind bars, a figure ten times higher than the population in state psychiatric hospitals. The excerpt highlights the case of Jamie Lee Wallace, whose suicide after testifying about Alabama’s neglectful...
Iran War & Trump’s Europe Troop Drawdown: What Comes Next?
Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer dissect the rapidly evolving Iran war, noting a tentative one‑page diplomatic memo that could halt hostilities but remains precarious. They examine the United Arab Emirates’ exit from OPEC, interpreting it as a realignment toward Saudi...
Transcript: Iran War & Trump’s Europe Troop Drawdown: What Comes Next?
The podcast dissects the rapidly evolving Iran‑War, noting a U.S. cease‑fire that added a second blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, a short‑lived humanitarian escort mission, and Iran’s retaliatory attacks on U.S. and UAE vessels. It also covers President Trump’s...
The Shadow Docket, #MeToo, and the Power of Reporting (with Jodi Kantor)
Jodi Kantor, Pulitzer‑winning New York Times journalist, joins Preet Bharara on the Stay Tuned podcast to dissect the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” and its secretive fast‑track rulings. She reveals 16 pages of private justices’ deliberations, exposing how the Court makes decisions without public...
The Worst Sort of Injustice
The Justice Department has filed a controversial indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, accusing it of supporting white‑supremacist groups through paid informants. Whistleblowers allege that senior officials pressured prosecutors to fast‑track the case despite evidentiary gaps, prompting House Democrats...
WHCD, the Media, and Covering Trump (with Ben Smith)
Former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith joins Preet Bharara on the Stay Tuned podcast to dissect the media’s handling of President Trump, the tension between objectivity and narrative, and the rise of AI in news gathering. Smith argues that early...
Transcript: China’s Engineering State Vs. America’s Lawyerly Society (W/Dan Wang)
In his book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that China operates as an engineering state that relentlessly builds, while the United States has become a lawyerly society that habitually blocks projects. He cites stark contrasts such as China’s $36 billion Beijing‑Shanghai high‑speed...
Today’s Terrorism Threats: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once (with Rebecca Weiner)
In a new episode of the Stay Tuned podcast, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Weiner outlines an "everything, everywhere, all at once" terrorism landscape that fuses ISIS, Iran‑linked plots, grievance‑driven violence, and online radicalization. She warns that traditional categories miss attacks...
Nothing Stays Safe
The New York Times published a cache of 2016 Supreme Court shadow‑docket memos, underscoring the court’s chronic privacy breaches. Meanwhile, Anthropic unveiled Mythos, an AI system that discovers software vulnerabilities up to ten times faster than earlier models, and limited its preview...
Debating the War in Iran and U.S. Strategy (w/H.R. McMaster and Matt Pottinger)
In a new episode of The Long Game, former Trump officials H.R. McMaster and Matt Pottinger join hosts Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer to dissect the prospect of a U.S. war with Iran. The conversation moves from the inner workings...
An Egregiously Wrong Decision
A federal judge in Philadelphia upheld an EEOC subpoena that forces the University of Pennsylvania to compile a list of its Jewish faculty and staff, including personal contact details. The subpoena aims to interview employees about alleged campus antisemitism, but...
The Maduro Case Needs a New Judge
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, a 92‑year‑old senior judge, has been assigned the high‑profile indictment of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Since the case was filed in January 2026, Hellerstein has failed to set a pre‑trial schedule, leaving the prosecution without a...