John F. Lansing, who held top media jobs, recently stepping down as CEO of NPR, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his career and navigating the current media environment.

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Marina Sirota and Alice Tang, two University of California, San Francisco medical researchers, about how AI can help spot early risk factors for Alzheimer’s Disease and the field of computational health sciences.

The United States is defenseless against a terror attack from weaponized “hobby” drones. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss this threat with Maj. Gen. James Poss, USAF (Ret.) and Richard Whittle, journalist and author, “Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution.”

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.

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 (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.

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.

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.

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.