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Electric utility resilience in a time of extreme weather events

August 28, 2021 by

There is an urgent need for electric power resilience in a time of extreme weather events. Llewellyn King talks with Paula-Gold Williams, president and CEO of CPS Energy, Clinton Vince, chair of the U.S. energy practice at Dentons, and journalist Rod Kuckro.

The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and what’s next

August 21, 2021 by

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello talk with Ariel Cohen, senior fellow at the Eurasia Center of The Atlantic Council, about the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and what’s next.

Coastal landfills meet rising seas: The coming crisis

August 7, 2021 by

Rising seas near coastal landfills in the United States and around the world are an impending and ignored environmental crisis, as Nation contributor David Lindorff discussed with “White House Chronicle” Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Linda Gasparello.

The drought in the West; the Biden climate change agenda in the run-up to the fall COP26 conference

July 31, 2021 by

Bob Deans, director of strategic engagement for the Natural Resources Defense Council, talks with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello about the drought in the West and the Biden agenda in the run-up to the November climate summit in Scotland.

A Crescent City chronicle of restoring an 1826 Creole plantation house and reviving pre-1930 jazz

July 24, 2021 by

Frederick Starr, an expert on Central Asia and the co-founder of the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble, talks with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello about his restoration of a 1826 Creole-style plantation house in New Orleans, and reviving pre-1930s jazz.

Afghanistan and Central Asia

July 10, 2021 by

Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central-Asia Caucasus Institute of the American Foreign Policy Council, discusses the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the increased regional cooperation among Central Asian states with hosts Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello.

American newspaper printing, from hot type to computers

July 3, 2021 by

Llewellyn King travels to Haverhill, Mass., where he and Frank Romano, president of the Museum of Printing, talk about American newspaper printing, from hot type and its culture to the arrival of computers.

Automation and electric grid resilience in a time of megadrought in the West

June 26, 2021 by

Llewellyn King talks about the megadought in the West and how autonomous technology can aid electric grid resilience with guests Tom Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute and Jeffrey DeCoux, chairman of the Autonomy Institute.

Biden administration’s infrastructure buildout

June 12, 2021 by

Two tech savants join Llewellyn King to discuss the main drivers of the Biden administration’s infrastructure buildout.

Nuclear energy’s save-the-world moment

June 5, 2021 by

Llewellyn King discusses nuclear energy’s save-the-world moment with Brian Keane, President of SmartPower; Lindsey Walter, Deputy Director of the Climate and Energy Program at Third Way; and John Kotek, Vice President of Policy and Public Affairs at the Nuclear Energy Institute.

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Game-Changing Wind Turbines Harvest Underused Resource Close To The Ground

Game-Changing Wind Turbines Harvest Underused Resource Close To The Ground

Llewellyn King

Jimmy Dean, the country musician, actor and entrepreneur, famously said: “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” A new wind turbine from a California startup, Wind Harvest, takes Dean’s maxim to heart and applies it to wind power generation. It goes after untapped, […]

Farewell to the U.S. as the World’s Top Science Nation

Llewellyn King

When I asked John Savage, the retired co-founder of the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, what the essential ingredient in research is, he responded with one word: “Passion.” It is passion that keeps scientists going, dead end after dead end, until there is a breakthrough. It is passion that keeps them at the […]

Europe Knows Russia and Is Deeply Afraid

Europe Knows Russia and Is Deeply Afraid

Llewellyn King

Europe is naked and afraid. That was the message at a recent meeting of the U.K. Section of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ), at which I was an invited speaker. It preceded a stark warning just over a week later from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, also speaking in London, who said the danger […]

A Commencement Address — Get Used to Rejections, We All Get Them Sometimes

A Commencement Address — Get Used to Rejections, We All Get Them Sometimes

Llewellyn King

It is school commencement season. So I am taking the liberty of sharing my column of May 10, 2024, which was first published by InsideSources, and later published by newspapers across the country.  As so many commencement addresses haven’t been delivered yet this year, I thought I would share what I would have said to […]

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