White House Chronicle

The barriers to market entry for medical devices -- everything from hearing aids to MRI machines -- here and abroad are significant. Some researchers suggest that more than 95 percent of proposed medical device innovations fail to launch. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Alex Gorrie, founder and CEO of London-based Dromeda.ai.

Howard K. French, professor, journalist and bestselling author talks about his new book "Second Emancipation" with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III. The book is the second installment in a trilogy, which refers to the brief period beginning in 1957 when a slew of African colonies became countries. The liberation, French writes in his book, was at the center of a &q...

China has planned its remarkable rise with pragmatism. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III speak with Pascal Coppens, a European tech entrepreneur and author, who lived in China for almost 20 years. His upcoming book is "China's Next Miracle: 100+ concrete tips to stay in the game as China redefines the innovation model."

America and Europe are in the midst of a divorce. As Europe plans its new life with a sense of pride and determination, it is facing myriad problems, including migrant surges and Russian sabotage and disinformation. Then there is the problem of the erosion of liberal democracy in Europe. Right-wing politicians are gaining ground. America faces many similar problems in the new Trump era. Host Llewe...

Jim Barksdale's $100 million gift 25 years ago changed the course of Mississippi public education. He gives an update on this historic gift which has helped children learn to read not only in his home state, but also, through Reading Universe (a service of WETA/Reading Rockets, the Barksdale Reading Institute, and First Book), in other U.S. states and foreign countries. Llewellyn King and Adam...

The threat from wildfire is growing and prescribed burning -- the controlled application of fire to a specific area of land to achieve defined management objectives -- is an important and traditional tool for maintaining healthy ecosystems and reducing wildfire risks. J. Morgan Varner, director of research and senior scientist at Tall Timbers in Tallahassee, Florida, discusses prescribed burning w...

The consensus among AI savants is that 2027 will be a key year -- a year in which AI achieves some degree of "sentience": It won't want to be shut down, for example. The HAL scenario, in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" is coming. But Jeffrey Cole, director of the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, is mostly "positive," about the fast march of AI. He spe...

Batteries are powering our future, from electric vehicles to data centers. There is a growing need for energy storage, and there are advances in battery technology. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the "essentiality" of batteries with Clinton Vince, chair of the U.S. Energy Practice at Dentons, the world's largest law firm, and John Howes, founder and p...

Public broadcasting "isn't going away" with the Trump cuts, Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III says reassuringly in this week's episode. Powell, who held managerial posts at NPR, PBS and CBS, and Host Llewellyn King take a look back at public broadcasting and offer a way forward.

Weather forecasting is crucial for utility companies, impacting everything from demand forecasting to storm readiness and renewable energy integration. David Naylor, who heads Rayburn Electric Cooperative, which serves the Dallas metroplex, and Hansi Singh, a scientist and co-founder and CEO of Planette, Inc., a weather forecaster, join Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

The betting on a fusion-powered future is heating up with Google's deal to purchase 200 megawatts of power from Commonwealth Fusion Systems planned fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Rick Needham, chief commercial officer of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, who struck the deal with the tech giant, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Harvey Castro is an emergency room doctor whose fascination with the potential of AI in healthcare led him to be an early adopter of the technology and a proponent through TEDx Talks, and books, including the just-released "Critical Healthcare Infrastructure: Leveraging Innovation and Public-Private Partnerships for Resilient Health Systems," co-authored with Thomas Cellucci. He talks with Host Ll...

Wind Harvest, a Davis, California-based company, has a technology (which actually dates back to the ancient Persians) that can capture the turbulent wind that flows nearer to the ground between ridges. The company's CEO, Kevin Wolf, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the company's vertical axis wind turbines.

Lee Rainie, an author, a former Pew researcher and now the head of Elon University's Center for Imagining the Digital Future, discusses the findings -- many quite surprising -- from a recent Elon survey on the adoption of AI and its impacts. Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell II host.

Americans treasure their freedom of expression. But at this time, that jewel of our society is losing its glimmer -- as is the truth -- at a rapid rate. PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect freedom of expression in America and worldwide. Its director of the Journalism and Disinformation program, Tim Richardson, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host...

Jaime Alemán is a lawyer, a businessman, and a former Panamanian ambassador to the United States, but mostly he wants to be known as an adventurer. Recently, was part of the Blue Origin NS-32 crew and he talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his passion for travel and being the first person in space to have visited all the countries on Earth.

Dan Raviv, author, podcaster, and a former CBS News correspondent talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III (who was a CBS News colleague), about his new book, his podcasts, and broadcast journalism in the time of social media.

AI is fast becoming the essential technology in the electricity sector for cybersecurity, weather prediction, wildfire vulnerability assessment, grid risk reduction and other things. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss AI's potential in the sector with Ron Schoff, Director of R&D at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI); and Chris Ritter, Division Directo...

In this episode, Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III dug into their broadcasting pasts -- including BBC, ITN, CBS, PBS and NPR -- to offer a way forward for public broadcasting, after President Trump targets funding.

Imagine a new cancer treatment that also can make people younger. Then imagine therapies that can slow, halt or even reverse age-related disease progression in humans and animals. Dr. Jason R. Williams. founder of the Williams Cancer Institute, and R. Rex Parris, co-founder of ReParris, a regenerative medicine company, discuss their here-and-now medical treatments and therapies with Host Llewellyn...

Roland Trope, partner in the New York City offices of Trope and Schramm LLP, has concerns about Apple's asking users to opt-in for their emails to be sampled for training its generative AI model, Apple Intelligence. Trope, who has taught at the United States Military Academy at West Point, has pointers for consumers, and those in his profession, about the risks and challenges of generative AI....

Austin entrepreneur Kevin Koym began his career with Steve Jobs at NeXT. Now, as CEO and Founder of Tech Ranch Austin, Koym is on a mission to support pioneering entrepreneurs in Mexico and other countries to gain access to the markets, resources, and relationships so that they may solve local problems with global insight. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Kevin Brancato, an expert in federal government contracting, discusses the new landscape of the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) transactions-based approach to justifying spending and contracts, and how businesses and universities seeking contracts can adapt and thrive with Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

"This is like a long-term marriage where one spouse has betrayed the other. Trust that took 150 years to create has been destroyed in just a few months. Americans don't understand the depth of Canadian anger." That is what Markham Hislop, a Vancouver Island, BC-based journalist and host of "The Energi Show" on YouTube, told Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powel...

The silencing of the Voice of America is "a geopolitical blunder for the USA," according to Clayton Weimers, executive director of Reporters Without Borders USA. The group, VOA reporters and a handful of unions has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Agency for Global Media and Kari Lake, who is President Trump's representative there. Weimers and Geoffrey Cowan, a University of Southern...