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Llewellyn King
“White House Chronicle” is a news and current affairs show known for its originality, crisp thinking, humor and panache. The show, hosted by veteran Washington journalists Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello, is interested in what is impacting the way we live and work now – including science, technology, medicine, energy, environment, books – and contributing to policy. It is eclectic – that is the “White House Chronicle” way.
The barriers to market entry for medical devices -- everything from hearing aids to MRI machines -- here and abroad are significant. Some researchers suggest that more than 95 percent of proposed medical device innovations fail to launch. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Alex Gorrie, founder and CEO of London-based Dromeda.ai.
Howard K. French, professor, journalist and bestselling author talks about his new book "Second Emancipation" with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III. The book is the second installment in a trilogy, which refers to the brief period beginning in 1957 when a slew of African colonies became countries. The liberation, French writes in his book, was at the center of a "movement of blackness," led by Ghana's charismatic first president, Kwame Nkrumah.
China has planned its remarkable rise with pragmatism. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III speak with Pascal Coppens, a European tech entrepreneur and author, who lived in China for almost 20 years. His upcoming book is "China's Next Miracle: 100+ concrete tips to stay in the game as China redefines the innovation model."
America and Europe are in the midst of a divorce. As Europe plans its new life with a sense of pride and determination, it is facing myriad problems, including migrant surges and Russian sabotage and disinformation. Then there is the problem of the erosion of liberal democracy in Europe. Right-wing politicians are gaining ground. America faces many similar problems in the new Trump era. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss these issues and more.
Jim Barksdale's $100 million gift 25 years ago changed the course of Mississippi public education. He gives an update on this historic gift which has helped children learn to read not only in his home state, but also, through Reading Universe (a service of WETA/Reading Rockets, the Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book), in other U.S. states and foreign countries. Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III co-host.
The threat from wildfire is growing and prescribed burning -- the controlled application of fire to a specific area of land to achieve defined management objectives -- is an important and traditional tool for maintaining healthy ecosystems and reducing wildfire risks. J. Morgan Varner, director of research and senior scientist at Tall Timbers in Tallahassee, Florida, discusses prescribed burning with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
The consensus among AI savants is that 2027 will be a key year -- a year in which AI achieves some degree of "sentience": It won't want to be shut down, for example. The HAL scenario, in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" is coming. But Jeffrey Cole, director of the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, is mostly "positive," about the fast march of AI. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Batteries are powering our future, from electric vehicles to data centers. There is a growing need for energy storage, and there are advances in battery technology. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the "essentiality" of batteries with Clinton Vince, chair of the U.S. Energy Practice at Dentons, the world's largest law firm, and John Howes, founder and principal at Redland Energy Group.
Public broadcasting "isn't going away" with the Trump cuts, Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III says reassuringly in this week's episode. Powell, who held managerial posts at NPR, PBS and CBS, and Host Llewellyn King take a look back at public broadcasting and offer a way forward.
Weather forecasting is crucial for utility companies, impacting everything from demand forecasting to storm readiness and renewable energy integration. David Naylor, who heads Rayburn Electric Cooperative, which serves the Dallas metroplex, and Hansi Singh, a scientist and co-founder and CEO of Planette, Inc., a weather forecaster, join Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
The betting on a fusion-powered future is heating up with Google's deal to purchase 200 megawatts of power from Commonwealth Fusion Systems planned fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Rick Needham, chief commercial officer of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, who struck the deal with the tech giant, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Harvey Castro is an emergency room doctor whose fascination with the potential of AI in healthcare led him to be an early adopter of the technology and a proponent through TEDx Talks, and books, including the just-released "Critical Healthcare Infrastructure: Leveraging Innovation and Public-Private Partnerships for Resilient Health Systems," co-authored with Thomas Cellucci. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Wind Harvest, a Davis, California-based company, has a technology (which actually dates back to the ancient Persians) that can capture the turbulent wind that flows nearer to the ground between ridges. The company's CEO, Kevin Wolf, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the company's vertical axis wind turbines.
Lee Rainie, an author, a former Pew researcher and now the head of Elon University's Center for Imagining the Digital Future, discusses the findings -- many quite surprising -- from a recent Elon survey on the adoption of AI and its impacts. Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell II host.
Americans treasure their freedom of expression. But at this time, that jewel of our society is losing its glimmer -- as is the truth -- at a rapid rate. PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect freedom of expression in America and worldwide. Its director of the Journalism and Disinformation program, Tim Richardson, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Jaime Alemán is a lawyer, a businessman, and a former Panamanian ambassador to the United States, but mostly he wants to be known as an adventurer. Recently, was part of the Blue Origin NS-32 crew and he talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his passion for travel and being the first person in space to have visited all the countries on Earth.
Dan Raviv, author, podcaster, and a former CBS News correspondent talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III (who was a CBS News colleague), about his new book, his podcasts, and broadcast journalism in the time of social media.
AI is fast becoming the essential technology in the electricity sector for cybersecurity, weather prediction, wildfire vulnerability assessment, grid risk reduction and other things. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss AI's potential in the sector with Ron Schoff, Director of R&D at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI); and Chris Ritter, Division Director of Scientific Computing & AI at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
In this episode, Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III dug into their broadcasting pasts -- including BBC, ITN, CBS, PBS and NPR -- to offer a way forward for public broadcasting, after President Trump targets funding.
Imagine a new cancer treatment that also can make people younger. Then imagine therapies that can slow, halt or even reverse age-related disease progression in humans and animals. Dr. Jason R. Williams. founder of the Williams Cancer Institute, and R. Rex Parris, co-founder of ReParris, a regenerative medicine company, discuss their here-and-now medical treatments and therapies with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Roland Trope, partner in the New York City offices of Trope and Schramm LLP, has concerns about Apple's asking users to opt-in for their emails to be sampled for training its generative AI model, Apple Intelligence. Trope, who has taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point, has pointers for consumers, and those in his profession, about the risks and challenges of generative AI. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Austin entrepreneur Kevin Koym began his career with Steve Jobs at NeXT. Now, as CEO and Founder of Tech Ranch Austin, Koym is on a mission to support pioneering entrepreneurs in Mexico and other countries to gain access to the markets, resources, and relationships so that they may solve local problems with global insight. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Kevin Brancato, an expert in federal government contracting, discusses the new landscape of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) transactions-based approach to justifying spending and contracts, and how businesses and universities seeking contracts can adapt and thrive with Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
"This is like a long-term marriage where one spouse has betrayed the other. Trust that took 150 years to create has been destroyed in just a few months. Americans don't understand the depth of Canadian anger." That is what Markham Hislop, a Vancouver Island, BC-based journalist and host of "The Energi Show" on YouTube, told Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell is the result of President Donald Trump's sweeping Canada tariffs and threats.
The silencing of the Voice of America is "a geopolitical blunder for the USA," according to Clayton Weimers, executive director of Reporters Without Borders USA. The group, VOA reporters and a handful of unions has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Kari Lake, who is President Trump's representative there. Weimers and Geoffrey Cowan, a University of Southern California professor, and a former director of the Voice of America, talk with Host Llewellyn King about the work of VOA and the consequences of the shutdown.
In this episode, Chris Brown, president of Intelygenz, and a self-described geek, talks with Host Llewellyn King about his start on a Commodore 64 in the north of England, and his current work to bring U.S. companies along on a "journey of confidence" in AI.
The White House has seized control of the press pool from the White House Correspondents' Association. In this episode, Bob Deans, a journalist, author, and a former president of the association, describes the pool of reporters who cover the president that they are "proxies for those people across the country who care deeply about the presidency and will never have a chance to ask the president a question. .... It's a big responsibility." He talks about the vital issue of press freedom with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Charles McMillan, who served as senior policy advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1983 to 1987, now a professor of business a York University in Toronto, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the impact of President Trump's rift with Canada.
Dr. Mitesh Rao, CEO and founder of OMNY Health, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the medical community's response to President Trump's drastic cuts on medical research at NIH, and their impact here and abroad.
Steven Hendrix, who was the highest-ranking USAID official at the State Department, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his work with USAID and how its loss will cost America.
Paul Lee, founder and CEO of Mind AI, based in Seoul, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his company's development of an AI technology that can explain its reasoning process. "We want everyone to trust AI technology more without worrying about hallucinations," he said.
Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, discusses the new realities in journalism and their impact with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Lawrence Jones is a global man. He was born and raised in Liberia, attended college in Sweden, and has just been inducted into the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. As the Edison Electric Institute's senior vice president of international programs, he runs an annual global electrification forum that crosses industry sectors, from AI to fashion to water."Electricity makes all these things happen, " he tells Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III in this episode.
In the run-up to his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump has been showing his wild hand, from not ruling out military action to take Greenland and the Panama Canal to making Canada the 51st state to getting rid of windmills. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss how Trump's strategy is impacting the nation and the world.
Gregg Lord, who has been involved in emergency response and preparedness for 44 years, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the issues that have led to significant instability in the emergency medical service structure in America.
Vilas Dhar, president and trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell II about the foundation's work and its global aspirations for AI.
David Derigiotis, an insurance expert and TED talker, is an AI enthusiast. But he is also a realist about the hurdles ahead for the development of this exciting technology. For example, backdoors and privacy. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Marvin Kalb, author, professor and a legend in broadcasting, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the early 1960s, when he was Moscow correspondent for CBS News, and the confrontation between Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, and President John F. Kennedy. It was "a different Russia," also the title of his new book, than the Putin-era one -- in which Putin, unlike Khrushchev, regularly turns his back on the West. Kalb also talks about the peril to democracies of a dearth of foreign correspondents.
James Schaefer, senior managing director of Guggenheim Securities Investment Banking, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the role "new safer and more robust" nuclear technologies might play for baseload, low-carbon electricity and to help the United States retain it leadership in fission. He also discusses the need for natural gas in the nation's energy mix.
Podcasts, social media, blogs, oh, my! These communications sources have been simmering in U.S. elections for years, but came to a boil in the 2024 elections. Geoffrey Cowan, director of USC's Annenberg 's Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, discusses the rise and impact of the new media with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Peter Morici thinks that AI gives Americans good reason to be optimistic. Morici, columnist, economist and emeritus business professor at the University of Maryland, looks at AI in an almost fatherly way. As AI grows up, there is going to be bad behavior, but we should watch for it not stifle the technology with regulation. It has the potential to do wonderful things, from finding us perfect matches to fostering new industries. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
A cover story in The Economist shows why America is the envy of the world. Host Llewellyn King, Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III and Producer Linda Gasparello discuss that enviable position as the election enters its final stretch.
John Kutsch, executive director of the Thorium Energy Alliance, believes fervently that "Thorium will power the world." In addition to its potential use as a fuel, it can also be used in medicine, alloys, coatings, and superconducting materials. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Perry Carpenter is chief human risk management strategist at KnowBe4, and author of "FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deefakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions." He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the mechanics behind deepfakes, disinformation, and other cognitive security threats, and how to survive in the ever more tangled digital jungle.
The space economy is growing rapidly. Currently, 90 countries have earth-imaging satellites in orbit. Mark Brender, a former ABC journalist, now a consultant to the geospatial and satellite Earth observation industry, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about how we are entering "an age of super-panoptical technocracy."
Not in my backyard (NIMBY) is a syndrome that has stymied the supply of homes, electricity, roads and other projects in the United States and abroad. Patrick Sleven's insights on NIMBYism come from his experience as mayor of Safety Harbor, a city on the west shore of Tampa Bay in Florida. He discusses ways to overcome NIMBYism with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Adam Russell, head of AI research at USC's Information Sciences Institute, has an engrossing discussion with Adam Clayton Powell III, who guest hosts the episode, about the development of AI -- and what Russell terms "AI Now, AI Next, AI in the Wild."
Dana Milbank, a Washington Post opinion columnist, knows there is humor in truth. He has written a hilarious and truthful book on the dysfunctional state of the current Republican House, "Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House." Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III had the fun of talking, as Lewis Carroll's Walrus said, "of many things" with Milbank.
Puerto Rico is vulnerable to devastating hurricanes, as is much of the Caribbean Basin. Adam Rousselle, CEO of the Caribbean Basin Power Authority, talks to Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his proposed undersea cable which would bring reliable and resilient electricity to Puerto Rico, and eventually to other locations in the Caribbean Basin.
As the Biden administration hits Russia with sanctions over efforts to manipulate the U.S. elections, Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk with Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon about disinformation, which he calls the "No. 1 threat to our country."
Jeffrey Cole, who directs the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his research on the social disruptions that new, injectable, weight-loss drugs like Ozempic might create, going far beyond health and health care.
John F. Lansing, who held top media jobs, recently stepping down as CEO of NPR, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his career and navigating the current media environment.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Marina Sirota and Alice Tang, two University of California, San Francisco medical researchers, about how AI can help spot early risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease and the field of computational health sciences.
The cellphone has come a long way since 1973, when Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, called Joel Engel at AT&T to let Engel know he had lost the race for a new technology. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the cellphone as an instrument of change with Christopher Guttman-McCabe, chief regulatory and communications officer at Anterix.
Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a Supreme Court ruling to overturn a 1984 decision, known as Chevron, that has instructed lower courts to defer to federal agencies when laws passed by Congress aren't crystal clear. Host Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the impact of this ruling with Clinton Vince, chair of the U.S. practice of Dentons, the global law firm.
Keeping the lights on (KLO in electricity industry speak) presents a myriad of challenges for a Western electric cooperative that has both urban and rural customers, especially in a time of aberrant weather and energy transition. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell talk with Lisa Tiffin, senior vice president of energy management at the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, based near Denver.
Lee Rainie, a former director of internet and technology research at the Pew Research Center, and now head of Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center, talks to Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III on AI's impact on the human workforce.
The longtime dream of a commercial fusion plant, supplying the nation with abundant clean energy, may soon be a reality. Brandon Sorbom, co-founder and chief scientist at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about how his work on superconducting magnets, which began as a student at MIT, has moved at a fast pace to a company marketing star power on Earth.
White House Chronicle Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk about the people they knew, the print and broadcast outlets they worked for, and journalism today.
Dan Fine, a retired entrepreneur who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Khrystyna Drahomaretska, an architect-turned-animal shelter manager in Odesa, Ukraine, are leading a heroic effort to sterilize and vaccinate dogs -- in care or on the street -- and stop the spread of rabies. They spoke with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
When it comes to electricity supply, the United States is in a "hyper-complex risk environment," according to Jim Robb, president and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss with him the risks the nation's utilities and consumers have been facing from the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, the extreme weather events, security, and new in 2023, according to a recent NERC report, the surging growth in demand.
Writer and scholar Orville Schell began his study of China well before President Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972, ending 25 years of isolation between the United States and China, and resulting in establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1979. Schell discusses "the end of U.S.-China engagement" with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
The U.S. air traffic control system is the world's largest but lags far behind other countries, including Canada and New Zealand. Robert Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation, discusses fixes for the system with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Andra Ghent is a professor of finance at the University of Utah, where she also directs the Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center. She discusses the deep roots of America's housing crisis and offers some solutions to it with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
AI and the electrification of transportation are dramatically increasing the national demand for electricity. But new transmission and generation are hard to come by. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss this dilemma with Karen Wayland, CEO of the GridWise Alliance, and Chris Guttman-McCabe, chief regulatory and communications officer at Anterix.
There are growing risks for journalists worldwide. The range of threats they are confronted with include online and offline harassment, intimidation, arbitrary detention and torture, kidnapping and murder. Arthur Kane, investigations editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, discusses those risks and his book on the murder of Jeff German, his friend and colleague at the paper, with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
America is reportedly short around 3.2 million homes -- and that shortage is growing. USC Professor Dowell Myers talks about the shortage, particularly from a demographic angle, with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Prolific Canadian writer Nora Gold is afflicted with a mysterious disease, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), about which she has written a novella, "In Sickness and in Health." Gold discusses how she is able to navigate her life and work through bouts of sickness with Host Llewellyn King.
More electric power to the people. That is what Americans want. But can the grid support the increased demand, especially from data centers? And how about the impact from more frequent severe weather events? Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Mark Menezes, President and CEO of the United States Energy Association.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk with former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Clinton Vince of Dentons, the global law firm, about the Hydrogen Demand Initiative, a new consortium funded by the Department of Energy, which is set to propel this potential of hydrogen as a clean energy source into a tangible reality.
Suriya Jayanti, who served for two years as U.S. diplomat in the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine is currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III about Ukraine's drive to thrive as a nation.
The AI era is here and now, and the technology is changing faster than we can absorb how it is changing our lives, as Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III learn from this week's guest, David Derigiotis, an AI expert and TED talker.
Electricity has been called "the indispensable commodity." While it powers our lives in increasing ways, it is taken for granted. Electric power faces a multitude of challenges, especially supply and resources, as David Naylor, President and CEO of Rockwall, Texas-based Rayburn Electric Cooperative, tells Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
World Class Scholars seeks to link up students and teachers in grades 1-12 online, real-time and globally -- and with some surprising results. Its founder, Phil Noble, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
It is harder now for journalists to cover China than it has been at any time since the normalization of its relations with the United States in 1972. But coverage of China is essential and a rewarding beat. Mike Chinoy, author of "Assignment China" and a former CNN correspondent and David Lynch, Global Economics Correspondent at The Washington Post discuss their time in China with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
There was athaw in U.S.-Cuba relations under the Obama administration. What has become of it? And what is the future for that complicated relationship? Host Llewellyn King and Producer/Co-host Linda Gasparello visited the island recently and talked with Ryan Berg, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Nora Gámez Torres, a reporter for el Nuevo Herald and the Miami Herald
Topic: Challenges for U.S.-Cuba relations
The United States is defenseless against a terror attack from weaponized "hobby" drones. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss this threat with Maj. Gen. James Poss, USAF (Ret.) and Richard Whittle, journalist and author, "Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution."
The demise of local newspapers is a critical threat to our democracy, as Martin Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, who started out in local news, told Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III. He also spoke candidly about coverage of the 2024 presidential election. This is Part II, and the final episode in the series.
Martin "Marty" Baron, the former executive editor of The Washington Post, talks about his time at the helm of three major newspapers and his book "Collision: Trump, Bezos and The Washington Post." Part I of II.
Is there a disconnect between politicians and intelligence collectors? Was the Israel-Hamas war, as were 9/11 and the Falklands War "a failure to warn and to imagine"? Michael Allen, managing director of Beacon Global Strategies, and Anthony Wells, author and a former intelligence agent, discuss the gathering and analysis of intelligence with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss a new "primer" on cybersecurity policy and technology with its authors, Derek Reveron , chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College and John Savage, professor emeritus of computer science at Brown University.
Is there a disconnect between politicians and intelligence collectors? Was the Israel-Hamas war, as were 9/11 and the Falklands War "a failure to warn and to imagine"? Michael Allen, managing director of Beacon Global Strategies, and Anthony Wells, author and a former intelligence agent, discuss the gathering and analysis of intelligence with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to David Worsfold, author of a riveting book on the largely untold story of Churchill's effort to evacuate Allied military forces and civilians from ports in western France after Dunkirk, codenamed Operation Aerial.
The GI Bill greatly reduced the ranks of artisans in America. But there is a critical need for them. Hosts Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III talk to the provost and a graduate of the American College of the Building Arts, which provides a liberal arts education as well as a trade.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Adam Lorenzo about how he went from running college bars in Upstate New York to writing comedy for movies and television shows, including "Saturday Night Live" and "The Late Late Show."
After selling Netscape in 1999, James Barksdale returned home to Mississippi to launch an extraordinarily successful education initiative. When he began, Mississippi's students were ranked at the bottom of the 50 states; today even students in poverty are No. 1 in the United States. He speaks with Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.
Artificial intelligence is making inroads in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss this with Tzvia Bader, CEO and Co-founder of Tel Aviv-based Leal Health and Dr. Leonard Lichtenfeld, Advisor to Leal Health, and former Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society.
What is the future of journalism in the age of AI? Bleak or bright with AI chatbots? Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss this with Rich Jaroslovsky, Vice President for Content and Chief Journalist, for SmartNews Inc.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the AI research horizon for electric providers and its impact on customers with Jeremy Renshaw, Senior Technical Executive at the Electric Power Research Institute.
World Resources Institute climate economist Karl Hausker talks to Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the challenges to getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discusses 50 years of the Internet, from its creation to AI, with one of its fathers, Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google.
Keeping the lights on is challenging for the electric utility industry in this time of cyberthreats, aberrant weather, and energy transition. But there are new technologies and materials on the horizon for electric utilities. Final in a two-episode series from the Edison Electric Institute's annual meeting in Austin, Texas.
At the Edison Electric Institute's annual meeting in Austin, Host Llewellyn King speaks with consultants and executives of electric utilities about the many challenges of keeping the lights on, and some opportunities ahead with new technology. First of a two-part series.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Adam Scheiner, MD. a Tampa, Florida-based oculoplastic surgeon, about the virtual and AI frontier in medicine.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss how Big Tech is weaponizing data with Tom Kemp, a Silicon Valley investor, entrepreneur and author of "Containing Big Tech: How to Protect Our Civil Rights, Economy, and Democracy."
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss how to protect our democracy from extremism with Anthony R. Wells, author of the new book, "Guarding Against Extremism in the 21st Century: A Lesson from the Past. German Public Opinion and Hitler's Policies, 1933-1939."
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III have a wide-ranging discussion with Stuart J. Russell, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, on why artificial intelligence must be controlled.
In the guest host seat, author Victoria Yeager asks Host Llewellyn King to share his thoughts on journalism, energy, and opportunity in America.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-Host Adam Clayton Powell III engage James Fallows, author, journalist and presidential speechwriter, in a wide-ranging discussion of American politics and life.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the risks and rewards of artificial intelligence with John Savage, An Wang professor emeritus of computer science at Brown University.
Llewellyn King discusses how business can help arrest climate change in Africa with Craig Cohut, founder, chairman and CEO of Pegasus Capital Advisors and Gina McCarthy, former EPA administrator.
Host: Llewellyn King
Co-host: Adam Clayton Powell III
Guest: Jeffrey Cole, Director of the Center for the Digital Future, University of Southern California
Topic: Media dominance by mega-tech
Host Llewellyn King and new Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk about the political and personal relationship between House Speaker Tip O'Neill and President Ronald Reagan with Tod O'Connor, who was on O'Neill's staff and plans to do a documentary on his life.
Host Llewellyn King talks with Denisa Augustinova, director of operations and co-founder of Magna, a Bratislava, Slovakia-based NGO providing medical aid to victims of conflict and crisis in Ukraine and other countries.
Host Llewellyn King talks with Jackson Janes, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US, about Germany before and after its stance on Russia's war in Ukraine.
Host Llewellyn King discusses President Biden's new cybersecurity strategy and the threats to industrial information and operational technologies with experts from 1898 & Co., a consultancy, and the Idaho National Laboratory.
Guests: Mark Mattei, Director, Industrial Cybersecurity for Managed Security Services, 1898 & Co; Victor Atkins, Director, Executive Advisory Services for Industrial Cybersecurity, 1898 & Co.; Andrew Bochman, Senior Grid Strategist, National & Homeland Security, Idaho National Laboratory
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss immigration and the new Biden asylum rules with Caitlin Dickson, senior reporter at Yahoo News.
Drones are changing our lives and Host Llewellyn King discusses them with Jeremiah Karpowicz, Group Editorial Director of Diversified Communications, a trade publisher and conference organizer.
In a follow-on interview, Adam Clayton Powell III discusses his long, illustrious career in broadcasting with Host Llewellyn King.
Adam Clayton Powell III discusses the lives and legacies of his parents, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Hazel Scott.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the findings of Transparency International's annual perceived public sector corruption report with Gary Kalman, the group's U.S. executive director.
Edward Achorn discusses his new book on Abraham Lincoln's miraculous nomination at the 1860 Republican convention, which changed the course of history, with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello.
Host Llewellyn King talks to Paula Glover, president of the Alliance to Save Energy, about energy efficiency's role in the energy transition.
Hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello discuss a range of issues that have spilled over into 2023, including the Ukraine war, energy shortages, and surging mass migration.
Llewellyn King and Duane Highely, CEO of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., discuss the winter electricity situation, and the road ahead for the energy transition.
Llewellyn King talks with Alex Taylor, Co-founder and CEO of Tremr, an un-Twitter platform for the exchange of news, views and ideas on the issues of the day.
As the White House looks at how electrification can help the nation meet its climate and equity goals, Llewellyn King and Ray Kowalik, Chairman and CEO of Burns & McDonnell, discuss the power generation future.
Host Llewellyn King talks to Robert Gardner, Principal at New World Technology Partners, who is one of the developers of supercomputers, about "emergent behavior" and how the internet has become a danger to itself.
Host Llewellyn King discusses the situation of the world's rainforests with Kevin Conrad, director of the Coalition of Rainforest Nations, who is participating at the COP27 conference.
Host Llewellyn King and Frank Larkin, COO of the Troops First Foundation discuss what is causing the rise in military veteran suicides and the National Warrior Call Day on Nov. 13, an initiative to get veterans connected and steering them to services -- and to hope.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello talk with Gail Chaddock, host and producer of "No Farms No Future," a podcast of the American Farmland Trust, about the nation's disappearing farms.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the root causes and remedies for skyrocketing inflation in America with Providence-based economist Jarrod Hazelton.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the turmoil in the United Kingdom, from soaring energy prices to Prime Minister Liz Truss's U-turns to Scotland's push for independence.
Llewellyn King talks with Victoria Yeager about her forthcoming book on the witticisms of her late husband, the legendary Air Force pilot Chuck Yeager.
Host Llewellyn King discusses the revolution underway in battery technology with John Howes, principal at Redland Energy Group.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the daunting array of challenges facing Liz Truss, Britain's new prime minister.
Llewellyn King and Suriya Jayanti, an energy strategist and former U.S. diplomat, discuss the energy crisis that is unfolding urgently in Europe, impacting the United States and the world.
Host Llewellyn King discusses the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on electric utilities with Joy Ditto, president and CEO of the American Public Power Association, and Louis Finkel, Senior Vice President of Government Relations for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello discuss how a visionary French Cognac maker and distributor, Jean Monnet, working for Churchill in Washington in 1940, was able to get Roosevelt to send armaments to the British, and would become one of the founding fathers of the European Union.
Host Llewellyn King talks with Clinton Vince, Chair of the U.S. Energy Practice of Dentons, the world's largest law firm, on what makes a Washington lawyer.
Host Llewellyn King and Francesco La Camera, director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency, based in Abu Dhabi, talk about the outlook for world energy transitions.
Electricity is the vital commodity of the future. At the Edison Electric Institute's annual meeting in Orlando, Host Llewellyn King speaks with utility CEOs, including Eric Silagy of Florida Power & Light, about how they're keeping the electricity flowing during fires, ice storms, and supply chain disruption, and are innovating. Second and final episode in a series.
The electric revolution is upon us, but how well is it going? Host Llewellyn King speaks with Philip Moeller, executive vice president of the Edison Electric Institute and others at the group's annual meeting.
Host Llewellyn King discusses the challenges and opportunities of America's entrepreneurial economy with Morgan O'Brien, executive chairman of Anterix, and John Sibley Butler, professor of sociology and management at the University of Texas at Austin.
Llewellyn King discusses this summer's challenges for the nation's power grid with Daniel Brooks of the Electric Power Research Institute, Peter Londa of Tantalus Systems, and Rod Kuckro of Energy Policy News.
Host Llewellyn King discusses Canada's energy system and its vital role in U.S. energy security with Vancouver Island-based Markham Hislop of Energi Media.
Llewellyn King discusses the biodiversity and ecosystem benefits of prescribed fires with Morgan Varner, Director of Research and Kevin Hiers, Director of Fire Science Applications at Tall Timbers, a Tallahassee, Florida-based fire ecology group.
Host Llewellyn King discusses how the practice of Tai Chi can help Covid long-haulers, ME/CFS and other patients with Lloyd Kelly, a Louisville, Kentucky-based artist and certified Tai Chi instructor.
Host Llewellyn King and Arshad Mansoor, president and CEO of the Electric Power Research Institute, discuss the institute's new climate initiative and electricity as key to the clean energy future
Dominic Selwood, British historian and barrister, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello about his riveting bestseller, "Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents"
Host Llewellyn King, Co-host Linda Gasparello, and Special Guest Co-host Michael Holtzman, a former White House adviser, talk to Joe Willke, president of BASES, part of Nielsen, about how the restaurant industry is innovating to survive the pandemic.
Host Llewellyn King discusses the new horizon for electricity with David Naylor, president and CEO of Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative, and Brian Keane, president of SmartPower.
Host Llewellyn King discusses President Biden's policy to export more liquefied natural gas to Europe with Sheila Hollis, acting executive director of the U.S. Energy Association, and Charlie Riedl, executive director of the Center for LNG at the Natural Gas Supply Association.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on the U.S. economy with Steve Odland, President and CEO of The Conference Board, and Clinton Vince, Chair of the U.S. Energy Practice of Dentons.
Host Llewellyn King discusses the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Europe with Suriya Jayanti, Managing Director of Eney, and Kostis Geropoulos,Energy and Russian Affairs Editor of New Europe.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the making of "technopolises" and entrepreneurship and self-help among Black Americans with John Sibley Butler, entrepreneur and professor of sociology and management at the University of Texas at Austin.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello talk to Steve Odland, President and CEO of The Conference Board, about rising inflation and the fight to tame it.
Llewellyn King discusses the challenges ahead for the stressed electric utility system with David Naylor, president and CEO, Rayburn Electric Cooperative, and Peter Londa, president and CEO, Tantalus Systems.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the novel approach to college education offered at the American College of the Building Arts in Charleston, South Carolina with Chief Academic Officer A. Wade Razzi.
Llewellyn King discusses decarbonization, weather, politics, and other pressures on utilities with Robert Gee, president of Gee Strategies Group, and energy writer Rod Kuckro.
With moves by 15 states to call a convention of the states, hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello talk to James D.R. Philips, author of "Two Revolutions and the Constitution: How the English and American Revolutions Produced the American Constitution."
Llewellyn King discusses whether Americans can build unity in 2022 with Richard Arenberg, Visiting Professors of Political Science at Brown University and Clinton Vince, Chair of the U.S. Energy Practice of Dentons.
Two Texan professors and entrepreneurs, John Sibley Butler of the University of Texas at Austin and Andres Carvallo of Texas State University, round up the year with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello talk with David Downey, CEO of the International Downtown Association, about reviving urban districts and downtown commerce.
Llewellyn King and guest host Morgan O'Brien, executive chairman of Anterix, get a primer on cryptocurrency from Jonathan Van, vice president of innovation at element8.
Host Llewellyn King talks with David Tessitore, President of the Providence Radio Association, about the history of amateur radio and its impact on telecommunications.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria which are of increasing interest to companies, their investors and other stakeholders, with Derek Young, managing director of ESG Consulting Services, a division of Summit Strategy Group.
With an eye to the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Host Llewellyn King discusses the importance of the digitization of utilities on the road to a clean and resilient electricity supply with Arshad Mansoor, President and CEO, Electric Power Research Institute; Robert Schwartz, President and CEO, Anterix; and Clinton Vince, Chair, U.S. Energy Practice, Dentons.
Tan Tran, CEO of Vemanti Group, talks to hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello about his company's new way to provide financial services to the unbanked and underbanked here and abroad.
Tom Keane, columnist for The Boston Globe, talks with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello about the rewards of his D.C. charter school work, and the deep political rifts in America.
Kevin Cohee, owner, chairman and CEO of OneUnited Bank in Boston, talks with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello about the challenges of the unbanked and underbanked.
The nation's rural electric cooperatives are struggling to meet government decarbonization deadlines. Host Llewellyn King discusses this with two coop heads, Duane Highley of Tri-State Generation and Transmission and David Naylor of Rayburn Electric, and Clinton Vince of Dentons.
What do Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russians want? Mark Galeotti, author of "We Need To Talk About Putin: How The West Gets Him Wrong," discusses this with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello.
Legendary marine biologist, oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle discusses the critical state of the oceans and her new book with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello.
There is an urgent need for electric power resilience in a time of extreme weather events. Llewellyn King talks with Paula-Gold Williams, president and CEO of CPS Energy, Clinton Vince, chair of the U.S. energy practice at Dentons, and journalist Rod Kuckro.
Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello talk with Ariel Cohen, senior fellow at the Eurasia Center of The Atlantic Council, about the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and what's next.
Rising seas near coastal landfills in the United States and around the world are an impending and ignored environmental crisis, as Nation contributor David Lindorff discussed with "White House Chronicle" Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello.
Bob Deans, director of strategic engagement for the Natural Resources Defense Council, talks with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello about the drought in the West and the Biden agenda in the run-up to the November climate summit in Scotland.
Frederick Starr, an expert on Central Asia and the co-founder of the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble, talks with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello about his restoration of a 1826 Creole-style plantation house in New Orleans, and reviving pre-1930s jazz. Second in a two-part series.
Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central-Asia Caucasus Institute of the American Foreign Policy Council, discusses the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the increased regional cooperation among Central Asian states with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello.
Llewellyn King travels to Haverhill, Mass., where he and Frank Romano, president of the Museum of Printing, talk about American newspaper printing, from hot type and its culture to the arrival of computers.
Llewellyn King talks about the megadought in the West and how autonomous technology can aid electric grid resilience with guests Tom Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute and Jeffrey DeCoux, chairman of the Autonomy Institute.
Llewellyn King discusses nuclear energy's save-the-world moment with Brian Keane, President of SmartPower; Lindsey Walter, Deputy Director of the Climate and Energy Program at Third Way; and John Kotek, Vice President of Policy and Public Affairs at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
Llewellyn King discusses the hurdles for innovative drug development at small biotech companies with Linda Marbán, CEO of Capricor Therapeutics and Angelos Stergiou, MD, President and CEO, STELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc.
Our lives are being rocked by cyber disruptions, like the one that shut down the Colonial Pipeline. Llewellyn King talks about this with John Savage, professor emeritus of computer science at Brown University, and Derek Reveron, chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval War College.
The Biden administration wants the transition to electric vehicles to pick up speed. But there are some big road bumps, including the nation's fragmented charging situation. Llewellyn King discusses this transition with the Edison Electric Institute's Emily Fisher, Kellen Schefter and Kwame Canty.
Host Llewellyn King discusses innovations in electricity generation and storage with Paula Gold-Williams and Frank Almaraz of CPS Energy.
Llewellyn King discusses how the big infrastructure buildout will be driven by digitization and 5G with Jeffrey DeCoux, Chairman, Autonomy Institute; Morgan O'Brien, Executive Chairman, Anterix.
Llewellyn King discusses the Texas deep freeze disaster with guests Ron Nirenberg, Mayor of San Antonio, Texas; Paula Gold-Williams, President and CEO, CPS Energy; and Clinton Vince, Chair, U.S. Energy Practice, Dentons.
Llewellyn King discusses the great reset that is taking place in America, and in tandem with President Biden's infrastructure plan, with Co-host Linda Gasparello and Bill Loveless, co-host of the Columbia Energy Exchange podcast.
Llewellyn King and Oved Amitay, pres. & CEO of Solve ME/CFS Initiative, talk about Long Haul Covid and its relationship to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
Llewellyn King discusses why China's monopoly on rare earths is a critical national infrastructure risk with John Kutsch, executive director of the Thorium Energy Alliance and David Zaikin, CEO of Key Elements Group.
Tony Medina, Howard University professor of creative writing, a funny, passionate and awfully good author and poet, is interviewed by Llewellyn King.
Llewellyn King and Lawrence Jones, vice president of international programs at the Edison Electric Institute, discuss global electricity, and resilience after Texas.
Llewellyn King and author Lee W. Huebner discuss the 20th-century American fathers of fake news and their impact.
Guest: Lee W. Huebner, Professor of Media and Public Affairs, The George Washington University
Llewellyn King discusses the flash mobbing of Wall Street and Washington with Sinan Aral, director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and economist Jarrod Hazelton.
Llewellyn King discusses the shortage of skilled artisans and the need to destigmatize the trades with Erik Listou, co-founder of the Living In Place Institute.
Llewellyn King and David Smith, Washington Bureau chief of The Guardian, talk about the challenges facing President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Llewellyn King and Allen Kay, famed adman and creator of "If You See Something, Say Something," discuss the awesome power of slogans.
Host Llewellyn King discusses San Antonio's electric utility dealing with the challenges of the pandemic and green energy with Paula Gold-Williams, President and CEO, CPS Energy.
Llewellyn King and The Atlantic Council's Ariel Cohen discuss President-elect Biden's overseas challenges.
Guest: Ariel Cohen, Senior Fellow, The Atlantic Council
Llewellyn King and guests explore the domestic minefield that awaits the Biden administration. Guests are SiriusXM Radio host Joe Madison and Clinton Vince of Dentons.
Llewellyn King and guests discuss digital innovation and medicine in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Guests: Linda Marban, CEO, Capricor Therapeutics; and Andres Carvallo, CEO, CMG Consulting and Professor of Innovation, Texas State University
Llewellyn King and guests talk about Richard E. “Dick” Morley, the "Father of Automation" and the floppy disc.
Guests: George Markowsky, Professor of Computer Science, Missouri S&T; Patricia E. Moody, Co-author, "The Technology Machine"; Ken Ball, Retired Engineer
Llewellyn King and three energy consultants discuss the Biden administration's potential impact on energy and infrastructure.
Guests: Jan Vrins, Partner, Global Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure, Guidehouse; Karen Wilson, Partner, Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure, Guidehouse; Lisa Frantzis, Partner, Energy, Sustainability & Infrastructure, Guidehouse
Llewellyn King and experts discuss the promise of low-level radiation as a treatment for Covid-19, arthritis and Alzheimer's.
Guests: Dr. James S. Welch,Professor of Radiation Oncology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine; James Conca, Senior Scientist, UFA Ventures, Inc.; Jerry Cuttler, President, Cuttler & Associates Inc.
John Sibley Butler, entrepreneur and University of Texas at Austin professor, discusses his inheritance as a member of the "Black Bourgeoisie."
Llewellyn King discusses the impact of literature on politics and culture with Philip Gould and Timothy Bewes, both Brown University professors of English.
Llewellyn King and guests SiriusXM Radio host Joe Madison "The Black Eagle," and Creators Syndicate and CNN columnist Froma Harrop discuss the need for a new social contract.
Llewellyn King and guests examine how consumers will benefit from a coming of age for microgrids.
Llewellyn King talks to Jim Bohannon, about talk radio hosting, and to Edward Gabriel, former U.S. ambassador to Morocco, about the Beirut explosion and the political crisis in Lebanon.
Llewellyn King discusses how innovation happens in companies and what inhibits it with mobile telecommunications pioneer Morgan O'Brien and Jack Markell, former Delaware governor.
Host Llewellyn King discusses the role of trees in human health and tracking COVID-19 through sewage with Aruni Bhatnagar and Ted Smith of the University of Louisville's Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute.
Llewellyn King speaks with Jan-Willem Bode, a London-based Guidehouse consultant, about the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials, a group of financial institutions working to measure and track the climate impact of their lending and investment portfolios.
Llewellyn King talks with Linda Marban, CEO of Capricor Therapeutics, about the exosomal path to developing a vaccine for COVID-19 and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and the excitement of medical research.
Can radiation help with COVID-19, Alzheimer's and arthritis? Llewellyn King discusses this with leading radiation oncologist Dr. James S. Welsh of Loyola University and the Hines VA Hospital in Chicago.
In the time of distance learning, the tragedy of those without broadband in rural America is examined by two professionals.
Host: Llewellyn King
Guests: Morgan O'Brien, Executive Chairman, Anterix; and James Matheson, Chief Executive Officer, National Rural Electric Association
Segment 1: Host Llewellyn King discusses Black Lives Matter's staying power with Ravi Perry, Chair, Department of Political Science, Howard University
Segment 2: Host Llewellyn King discusses using radiation to save COVID-19 patients with James Conca, Senior Scientist, UFA Ventures, Inc.
Economist Peter Morici talks about the good of the UK's NHS, the bad of US college professors, and the ugly of China.
Host Llewellyn King speaks with Guidehouse experts Daan Peters in the Netherlands and Mark Eisenhower in Washington about the role of natural gas in decarbonization; then joined by University of Maryland's Peter Morici on state government funding in response to COVID-19.
Host Llewellyn King asks William Spriggs, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, about the economy and the decline of unions at a time when they are needed most. Morris Pearl, Chair, Patriotic Millionaires talks about economic initiatives supported by his group of like-minded wealthy folk; Jared Rizzi, Host, "At the Table" podcast, on the podcasting boom.
Host Llewellyn King discusses a Canadian assessment of the Trump presidency, and a clinical stage biotechnology company's cell therapy to fight COVID-19.
Host Llewellyn King discusses "Never Normal," a global, cross-industry report on addressing the new realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with Dimitris Bountolos, one of the authors.
Host Llewellyn King and a panel of futurists discuss technologies that will save cities.
Guests: Morgan O'Brien, CEO, Anterix; Jan Vrins, Global Energy Sustainability and Infrastructure Leader, Guidehouse; Clinton Vince, Chair, U.S. Energy Practice, Dentons
Host Llewellyn King and Thomas Patterson of the Harvard Kennedy School discuss whether the Republican Party is destroying itself.
A Harvard professor's book on the GOP; a new platform connecting startups to large enterprises; a forum for energy and environment security and sustainability; making China more livable
Host Llewellyn King interviews International lawyer Clinton Vince about a new group of leaders is emerging from U.S. cities; then Analyst Jarrod Hazelton says we should bring back the WPA.
Host Llewellyn King interviews Preeti Srivastav, an Amsterdam-based consultant with Guidehouse, about Europe's "circular economy" actions and progress on its Green New Deal; then Charmian Proskauer, Former President, Massachusetts CFIDS/ME & FM Association on COVID-19's impact on people already shut in by ME/CFS.
Host Llewellyn King speaks with Howard University President Dr. Wayne Frederick, who describes the predicament of African Americans in the COVID-19 pandemic; and two top consultants from Guidehouse explain promising indications in the environment.
Host Llewellyn King speaks with Jim Matheson, CEO, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, about the bridging the digital divide in rural communities; MIT's Michael Short talks about the importance of the scientific method.
Host Llewellyn King interviews William Pommerening, president of airPHX, who has a technology that can be used to purify the air and surfaces in hospitals.
Host Llewellyn King and co-host Linda Gasparello travel to San Antonio for the City of the Future conference. They ask experts how they're making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Part two of a two-part series.
Host Llewellyn King travels to San Antonio for the City of the Future conference. He asks experts how they're making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Part one of a two-part series.