William Galston

Limiting the scope for gains like those in 2018 when they picked up 41.

Bill Galston, a former White House advisor to Clinton, said even if Democrats gained 25 House seats, they'd have a working majority but not a huge one.

Such a majority would give Democrats control of the House but little room to maneuver, making it harder to pass contentious legislation or claim the sweeping mandate associated with past wave elections.

While Democrats are favored to make gains in the 100-member Senate, achieving the net gain of four seats needed to get that 51 majority...

I saw that headline and I said, aha.

That is episode number four of Can We Agree? John Yoo and Bill Galston debating on Can We Agree? on my YouTube channel, Donald Trump's exercise of executive power and addressing the question of whether...

when it's a post-Trump presidency come, you know, 2029, what will the next president do? Will the next president, will President AOC, will President J.D.

Vance, will President Rahm Emanuel continue to utilize an expansive interpretation of presidential powers a la Donald Trump, or will it revert? It's a great debate.

It's civil, it's an hour long, it's substantive, and those who are debating are quality individuals, meaning highly credentialed, they know a little something, street smarts and academic smarts.

So John Yoo from Berkeley and Bill Galston from the Wall Street Journal spoke about, debated, discussed Trump and presidential power? Has he exercised powers that anybody else who preceded him could have? Or has he expanded presidential power? Or as we worded it yesterday in the poll question, after Donald Trump leaves office, Will presidential power go back to what it was before? 60.49% said no.

39.51% said yes.

A lot of votes.

Just sign up for my YouTube page and set yourself up for notifications because today is release day for episode number four.

Now, interestingly, this was actually the first episode that we recorded and I am... forever grateful to John Yoo and Bill Galston.

And I'll tell you why.

I conceived of this show, but I had nothing to show for it.

Here's a sizzle reel.

We didn't have anything.

When I first reached out for John Yoo and Bill Galston, Who are they? Well, they're brilliant.

John Yoo, a name you probably know because John Yoo in the post 9-11 years was the White House attorney who provided the basis for so-called harsh interrogation methods.

It's awesome.

It's John Yoo, who is a conservative, but he's at Berkeley, and Bill Galston, who's a liberal or progressive, but he's at the Wall Street Journal.

So, you know, each of them at a... at a platform where they're the outlier.

I'll tell you what they have in common.

Did he just use powers that all the rest of them had but never utilized? Or has he created new executive power? And what happens when he's no longer in office? The combatants, John Yoo from Berkeley.

probably the only conservative at the Berkeley Law School, and William Galston from the Wall Street Journal, probably the only liberal at the Wall Street Journal.

It's a great pairing.

It's a wonderful conversation.

A judge orders Trump to take his name off the place, so he threatens to abolish it.

by William A. Galston.

Compared with war and inflation, the fate of the Kennedy Center may seem insignificant, but the struggle over its future represents, in microcosm, many of the features that distinguish the Trump administration from most of its predecessors.

In 1958, Congress enacted a law authorized in the creation of a National Cultural Center in the District of Columbia with funds raised by voluntary contributions.

Tom Wheeler is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and the author of several important books on AI and technology innovation.

Bill Galston is the Ezra Zilka Chair of Governance Studies at Brookings and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.

He recently wrote a piece questioning the safety of AI systems for that paper.

Tom and Bill, welcome to our Brookings Tech Tank podcast.

Is it not possible to bifurcate regulation based on the sphere of activity? you know, whether it's mainly in the economic sphere or in the military sphere.

There are certain things that go on with with nuclear energy in the military sphere that are subject to forms of regulation that are very different from those in the civilian nuclear sphere and i wonder as a structural matter whether there is some useful analogy here i'm not sure there is but i'm not sure there isn't if i knew more perhaps i'd be a little bit more sure

Well, I want to thank each of you, Tom Wheeler and Bill Galston, for sharing your thoughts with us today.

Each of your considerations of human history and the role of technology innovation and how that should condition our current issues with AI I think are very important.

"So the technology risks came into focus last week.

Is the political system prepared?" says William Galston in The Wall Street Journal.

Experts have long worried about economic, social, and social-- and security impact of artificial intelligence.

Uh, this year, those risks have moved onto the public agenda.