War With Iran, 2020 Public Health, Strange Laws

Is the US Now at War With Iran? (0:30) Guest: Eric Jensen, JD, Professor of International Law, Brigham Young University Is the US now at war with Iran? President Donald Trump says the purpose of killing Iran’s top military commander three days ago in a drone strike was the opposite: “We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.” Iran has vowed revenge. Critics of President Trump say the strike was illegal and that his threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites would be a war crime. Iraq’s parliament wants all American troops to leave.  America’s Health in 2020 (21:25) Guest: Sandro Galea, MD, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, Author of “Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health” Opioid overdose, suicide, measles, vaping and gun violence were all major public health concerns that dominated headlines in 2019. What will be the biggest challenges facing public health in America in 2020?  Artificially-Intelligent Systems Should Be Free of Bias, But They Aren’t (36:25) Guest: Elisa Celis, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University Artificial intelligence decides the ads you see, news you read, jobs you get considered for, and in some cases, whether or not you’ll go to jail. Ideally, an artificially intelligent recommendation system is less biased than human decision-makers.  Except that it’s not. And in a lot of cases, these systems are making some forms of discrimination even more entrenched in the real world. You’re Probably a Federal Criminal and Don’t Know It (50:07) Guest: Michael Chase, JD, Author of “How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender.”  So you think you’re generally a law-abiding citizen? Well . . . if you’ve ever put a note without a stamp in your neighbor’s mailbox, clogged a toilet at a National Park, mutilated a dollar bill or moved a picnic table on public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, you are a federal criminal. Criminal defense lawyer