The political science of 2016 with Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz

August 22, 2016 by

White House Chronicle, Show #8034
Air Date: August 19, 2016
Run Time: 29:00
Host: Llewellyn King
Co-Host: Linda Gasparello
Guest: Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rhode Island
Topic: The political science of 2016

Media in the Time of the Internet — Mugged but Needed

Llewellyn King

Trying to predict the future of the internet or even to see how it will become a reliable source of fact, like old-fashioned newspaper and television reporting, is to my mind the equivalent of standing on the sand spit at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and predicting the future of aviation. As the effect of the […]

Utilities Beware: The Whole IoT Is At Risk From Itself

Llewellyn King

Has the internet of things — the vast, interconnected, computer-centered ecosystem of today — reached a point where it is so complex, so multilayered, has so many architects, and has so many national interests embedded in it that it has become a threat to itself? Will the electric grid, the financial system or the air […]

All Through the Night — Remembering Radio Host Bohannon

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A great voice is stilled. James “Jimbo” Bohannon died of cancer of the esophagus on Nov. 12. Only weeks earlier, he had to resign from his “Jim Bohannon Show,” the overnight broadcast that aired on 500 radio stations, largely AM, weeknights from 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. ET. Jim was a big man with a […]

Veterans Who Have Borne the Battle Suffer the Peace in Isolation

Llewellyn King

For those who serve in the military, that is the ultimate bonding time: Camaraderie beyond imagining and sharing beyond compare. Laughing, fearing, hurting, hoping, and, sometimes, dying together. A time when the future is just a day ahead, a command away and if in combat, a time when death can arrive in an instant. When […]