Millennials and politics: White House Chronicle 7047

November 23, 2015 by

White House Chronicle, Show #7047

Air Date: Nov. 20, 2015

Run Time: 29:00

Host: Llewellyn King

Guests: Brian Keane, SmartPower; Paul Brandus, West Wing Reports; Siraj Hashmi, Global Voice Hall

Topic: Millennials and politics

A British Immigrant’s Defense of Immigration

Llewellyn King

Migration, people moving to new lands, is as old as human history, and as fraught. Today it is a global problem complete with layered hypocrisy, cruelty and, always, hope among those on the move. War and extreme poverty collude in driving people to seek a livable future. There is no simple solution, no slogan that […]

The Birth of a New Reactor: Thorium Past and Present

Llewellyn King

If you are designing a car from scratch, there are certain essentials to begin with. You need to start with the wheels on the corners, for example. But when it comes to building a nuclear reactor, things are different. There are hundreds and maybe thousands of ways of doing it. The constant is that you […]

Air Conditioning Costs Threaten Summer of Sun Belt Catastrophe

Llewellyn King

The summer of our discontent is at hand. When I asked a professional weather forecaster what we might expect this season, he said, “Hades.” That was as disturbing as everything else in this disturbing year. America has a summer culture. You could say the whole of the Northern Hemisphere has one, but there is a […]

The New Media: A Pea of News in a Mattress of Words

Llewellyn King

Journalism is choking on the low-hanging fruit. Every day hundreds of newsletters and podcasts flood inboxes. These are almost entirely concerned with political goings-on in Washington. But this isn’t to say that journalism is alive and well. In fact, this is a symptom of journalism’s straitened times. Mostly, there is just a pea of news […]