Alternate facts, artificial intelligence, and ad crunches. Journalism is critical to democracy, but can it survive these stresses? The program’s Host Llewellyn King, Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III and Producer Linda Gasparello weigh in with their experiences.

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Adam Lorenzo about how he went from running college bars in Upstate New York to writing comedy for movies and television shows, including “Saturday Night Live” and “The Late Late Show.”

After selling Netscape in 1999, James Barksdale returned home to Mississippi to launch an extraordinarily successful education initiative. When he began, Mississippi’s students were ranked at the bottom of the 50 states; today even students in poverty are No. 1 in the United States. He speaks with Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Artificial intelligence is making inroads in cancer diagnosis and treatment. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss this with Tzvia Bader, CEO and Co-founder of Tel Aviv-based Leal Health and Dr. Leonard Lichtenfeld,  Advisor to Leal Health, and former Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society.

World Resources Institute climate economist Karl Hausker talks to Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the challenges to getting to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discusses 50 years of the Internet, from its creation to AI, with one of its fathers, Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google.

Keeping the lights on is challenging for the electric utility industry in this time of cyberthreats, aberrant weather, and energy transition. But there are new technologies and materials on the horizon for electric utilities. Final in a two-episode series from the Edison Electric Institute’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas.

At the Edison Electric Institute’s annual meeting in Austin, Host Llewellyn King speaks with consultants and executives of electric utilities about the many challenges of keeping the lights on, and some opportunities ahead with new technology. First of a two-part series.