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Don’t Let AI Get Away Without Helping You: Iterate

Don’t Let AI Get Away Without Helping You: Iterate

April 17, 2026 By Llewellyn King

I haven’t had a good relationship with the Age of Computing. I don’t understand computers, but I believe they understand me. And that is the … [Read More...]

Democratic Graybeards Detail Tools Trump May Use To Negate Midterms

Democratic Graybeards Detail Tools Trump May Use To Negate Midterms

April 11, 2026 By Llewellyn King

After two long, dark years, there is an optimism afoot among Democrats, many independents, and a few old-school Republicans that the clouds will part … [Read More...]

Summer Is Too Important for Politics to Steal

Summer Is Too Important for Politics to Steal

April 3, 2026 By Llewellyn King

If you can get your mind off the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, if you can stop checking your 401(K), which seems to have taken off for the dark … [Read More...]

Tech Giants Will Boost Nuclear but Won’t Help With Your Bill

Tech Giants Will Boost Nuclear but Won’t Help With Your Bill

March 27, 2026 By Llewellyn King

There is an abiding faith that if someone is good at one thing, they must be good at many things. At heart, it is a belief that outside the … [Read More...]

Highlights from the Archives

  • Women Face Massive Layoffs as AI Use Spreads in the U.S.
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  • Iran War May Speed Nuclear Proliferation Elsewhere

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Watch Out When the Political Class Forgets Cause and Effect

Watch Out When the Political Class Forgets Cause and Effect

Llewellyn King

Anyone who has spent time in criminal court knows this: One of the characteristics of lawbreakers is a poorly developed sense of cause and effect. At the low end, the folly of the defendants is always on display. The young man who takes a gun with him on a night of drinking. He has increased […]

The Electricity Future for New England: Uncertainty and High Prices

The Electricity Future for New England: Uncertainty and High Prices

Llewellyn King

These days, in terms of resources, New England is poorly positioned to make electricity. As Gregg Cornett, president of Rhode Island Energy, told me in an interview, it doesn’t sit on abundant coal reserves and natural gas — the critical fuel in today’s electricity generating mix — or hide beneath the surface, waiting for the […]

A Revolutionary Calls Out the Utility Industry

A Revolutionary Calls Out the Utility Industry

Llewellyn King

The demand for electricity continues to rise, and there is a wide recognition that there is going to be pressure on the grid as never before, and that it is time to think about the grid in new ways.  We need to think about how it operates, how it might operate, and the technologies — including artificial intelligence as […]

My Happy Place Is on a Train, Including Amtrak

My Happy Place Is on a Train, Including Amtrak

Llewellyn King

This is being written on Amtrak’s Northeast Regional Train 171, in coach, en route from Providence, R.I., to New York. I am in my happy place. I am a trainman. Given a choice, I would ride the rails over any other mode of transport — except flying, when I owned a plane. Something happens to […]

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