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U.S. air traffic control system lags not leads

April 27, 2024 by

The U.S. air traffic control system is the world’s largest but lags far behind other countries, including Canada and New Zealand. Robert Poole, director of transportation policy at the Reason Foundation, discusses fixes for the system with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

The deep roots of America’s housing crisis

April 19, 2024 by

Andra Ghent is a professor of finance at the University of Utah, where she also directs the Ivory-Boyer Real Estate Center. She discusses the deep roots of America’s housing crisis and offers some solutions to it with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Local electricity regulation versus national need

April 13, 2024 by

AI and the electrification of transportation are dramatically increasing the national demand for electricity. But new transmission and generation are hard to come by. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss this dilemma with Karen Wayland, CEO of the GridWise Alliance, and Chris Guttman-McCabe, chief regulatory and communications officer at Anterix.

The growing risks for journalists

April 6, 2024 by

There are growing risks for journalists worldwide. The range of threats they are confronted with include online and offline harassment, intimidation, arbitrary detention and torture, kidnapping and murder. Arthur Kane, investigations editor at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, discusses those risks and his book on the murder of Jeff German, his friend and colleague at the paper, with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

America’s housing shortage

March 30, 2024 by

America is reportedly short around 3.2 million homes — and that shortage is growing. USC Professor Dowell Myers talks about the shortage, particularly from a demographic angle, with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

A writer navigates life with ME/CFS

March 23, 2024 by

Prolific Canadian writer Nora Gold is afflicted with a mysterious disease, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), about which she has written a novella, “In Sickness and in Health.” Gold discusses how she is able to navigate her life and work through bouts of sickness with Host Llewellyn King.

Is America running out of power?

March 16, 2024 by

More electric power to the people. That is what Americans want. But can the grid support the increased demand, especially from data centers? And how about the impact from more frequent severe weather events? Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Mark Menezes, President and CEO of the United States Energy Association.

A new hydrogen initiative

March 14, 2024 by

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk with former U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Clinton Vince of Dentons, the global law firm, about the Hydrogen Demand Initiative, a new consortium funded by the Department of Energy, which is set to propel this potential of hydrogen as a clean energy source into a tangible reality.

How is Ukraine really doing?

March 2, 2024 by

Suriya Jayanti, who served for two years as U.S. diplomat in the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine is currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III about Ukraine’s drive to thrive as a nation.

How AI will upend everything

February 23, 2024 by

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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 […]

Will AI Stimulate Shadow Government?

Will AI Stimulate Shadow Government?

Llewellyn King

“This Time It’s Different” is the title of a book by Omar Hatamleh on the impact of artificial intelligence on everything. Hatamleh, who is NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s chief artificial intelligence officer, means that we shouldn’t look to previous technological revolutions to understand the scope and the totality of the AI revolution. It is, […]

Sorry, Europe Is Full, Tourists Are Told

Sorry, Europe Is Full, Tourists Are Told

Llewellyn King

This was the summer when much of Europe said to the ever-increasing flow of tourists, “Sorry, we are full.” Of course, Europe isn’t full at all. It is just those places that we all want to go, that have been tugging at our imaginations since we began imagining, are hopelessly crowded — and some are […]

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