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Electricity Challenges

February 17, 2024 by

Electricity has been called “the indispensable commodity.” While it powers our lives in increasing ways, it is taken for granted. Electric power faces a multitude of challenges, especially supply and resources, as David Naylor, President and CEO of Rockwall, Texas-based Rayburn Electric Cooperative, tells Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

A program that connects grades 1-12 classrooms online, real-time and globally

February 11, 2024 by

World Class Scholars seeks to link up students and teachers in grades 1-12 online, real-time and globally — and with some surprising results. Its founder, Phil Noble, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

China — The reporters’ stories

February 2, 2024 by

Weaponized hobby drones’ threat to the U.S.

January 22, 2024 by

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.”

Confessions of a Celebrity Editor, Part II

January 12, 2024 by

The demise of local newspapers is a critical threat to our democracy, as Martin Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, who started out in local news, told Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III. He also spoke candidly about coverage of the 2024 presidential election. This is Part II, and the final episode in the series.

Confessions of a Celebrity Editor, Part I

January 6, 2024 by

Martin “Marty” Baron, the former executive editor of The Washington Post, talks about his time at the helm of three major newspapers and his book “Collision: Trump, Bezos and The Washington Post.” Part I of II.

“Security in the Cyber Age” — a primer on policy and technology

December 23, 2023 by

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss a new “primer” on cybersecurity policy and technology with its authors, Derek Reveron , chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College and John Savage, professor emeritus of computer science at Brown University.

Intelligence gathering and analysis challenges

December 16, 2023 by

Is there a disconnect between politicians and intelligence collectors? Was the Israel-Hamas war, as were 9/11 and the Falklands War “a failure to warn and to imagine”? Michael Allen, managing director of Beacon Global Strategies, and Anthony Wells, author and a former intelligence agent, discuss the gathering and analysis of intelligence with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Churchill’s Operation Aerial

December 9, 2023 by

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to David Worsfold, author of a riveting book on the largely untold story of Churchill’s effort to evacuate Allied military forces and civilians from ports in western France after Dunkirk, codenamed Operation Aerial.

A College Route for American Artisans

December 2, 2023 by

The GI Bill greatly reduced the ranks of artisans in America. But there is a critical need for them. Hosts Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III talk to the provost and a graduate of the American College of the Building Arts, which provides a liberal arts education as well as a trade.

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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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