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The cellphone as an instrument of change

July 20, 2024 by

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.

The impact of the Supreme Court ending the Chevron deference

July 13, 2024 by

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 in four western states

July 6, 2024 by

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.

A fusion power plant’s high-speed journey from concept to commercialization

June 28, 2024 by

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.

Research on AI’s Impact on the Future of Work

June 21, 2024 by

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.

A fusion power plant’s high-speed journey from concept to commercialization

June 15, 2024 by

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.

Two hosts talking: The journalism that was and is

June 8, 2024 by

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.

A heroic effort to sterilize and vaccinate dogs in Ukraine, and halt the spread of rabies 

June 1, 2024 by

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.

The electricity supply crisis deepens

May 24, 2024 by

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.

The electricity supply crisis deepens

May 17, 2024 by

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.

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The Stateless in America Would Face a Kind of Damnation

The Stateless in America Would Face a Kind of Damnation

Llewellyn King

I have only known one stateless person. You don’t get a medal for it or wear a lapel pin. The stateless are the hapless who live in the shadows, in fear. They don’t know where the next misadventure will come from: It could be deportation, imprisonment or an enslavement of the kind the late Johnny […]

How the Special Relationship Became the Odd Couple

How the Special Relationship Became the Odd Couple

Llewellyn King

Through two world wars, it has been the special relationship: the linkage between the United States and Britain. It is a linkage forged in a common language, a common culture, a common history and a common aspiration to peace and prosperity. The relationship, always strong, was burnished by President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret […]

The Shady, Sometimes Wacky World of State Secrets and Security Clearances

The Shady, Sometimes Wacky World of State Secrets and Security Clearances

Llewellyn King

Beware: Classified documents don’t always hide state secrets, and security clearances are used as tools of manipulation and vengeance. Before Xerox, if you wanted to keep a copy of something, you had to type it with a carbon sheet backing every page. In 1969, I was commissioned by a long-gone consultancy, the Arctic Company, to […]

The Case for Prescribed Burning: Fighting Fire With Fire

The Case for Prescribed Burning: Fighting Fire With Fire

Llewellyn King

Wildfire takes no prisoners, has no mercy, knows no boundaries, respects no nation and is a clear and present danger this and every summer as summers grow drier and hotter. The American West is burning; across Canada there are wildfires; and swaths of France, Spain, Portugal and Greece are ablaze. In 2022, faraway Siberia was […]

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