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The daunting challenges facing British Prime Minister Liz Truss

September 17, 2022 by

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello discuss the daunting array of challenges facing Liz Truss, Britain’s new prime minister.

The energy crisis in Europe

September 3, 2022 by

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.

The Inflation Reduction Act’s Impact on Public Power Utilities and Rural Electric Co-ops

August 30, 2022 by

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.

French visionary Jean Monnet, his Washington experience and lasting legacy

July 30, 2022 by

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.

The Making of a Washington Lawyer

July 23, 2022 by

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.

The Electric Revolution, Part 2

July 8, 2022 by

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, first in a two-part series

July 2, 2022 by

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.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

June 18, 2022 by

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.

Electric grid challenges for summer 2022

June 11, 2022 by

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.

Biodiversity and ecosystem benefits of prescribed fires

May 27, 2022 by

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.

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Memories of PDVSA: The Same Problems, Just Worse Now

Memories of PDVSA: The Same Problems, Just Worse Now

Llewellyn King

In 1991, the state oil company of Venezuela, Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., known as PDVSA, invited the international energy press to visit. I was one of the reporters who flew to Caracas and later to Lake Maracaibo, the center of oil production, and then to a very fancy party on a sandbar in the Caribbean. […]

A Conversation With 2026 on America’s Meaning to the World

A Conversation With 2026 on America’s Meaning to the World

Llewellyn King

Come on in, 2026. Welcome. I am glad to see you because your predecessor year was not to my liking. Yes, I know there is always something going on in the world that we wish were not going on. Paul Harvey, the conservative broadcaster, said, “In times like these, it helps to recall that there […]

Postcard from the Queen Mary 2: Holiday Cruise to the Caribbean

Postcard from the Queen Mary 2: Holiday Cruise to the Caribbean

Linda Gasparello

My husband, Llewellyn King, and I chose a Christmas-to-New Year’s cruise on the Queen Mary 2, titled Caribbean Celebration, because there were so many days at sea. We love the feelings of lethargy, languor and disengagement that fill us on those days. But the sea days — and there were three since we left New […]

New Year’s Resolutions Are Bad — Slough Off Instead

New Year’s Resolutions Are Bad — Slough Off Instead

Llewellyn King

A remarkable autobiography by Anthony Inglis, the English conductor and musicologist, is titled, “Sit Down, Stop Waving Your Arms About!” Quite so. This admonition occurred while Inglis was conducting a musical. Someone sitting in the front row tapped him on the shoulder and told him to sit down and stop waving his arms about. My […]

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