White House Chronicle

As the Biden administration hits Russia with sanctions over efforts to manipulate the U.S. elections, Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk with Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon about disinformation, which he calls the "No. 1 threat to our country."

Jeffrey Cole, who directs the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his research on the social disruptions that new, injectable, weight-loss drugs like Ozempic might create, going far beyond health and health care.

John F. Lansing, who held top media jobs,  recently stepping down as CEO of NPR, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his career and navigating the current media environment.

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to Marina Sirota and Alice Tang, two University of California, San Francisco medical researchers, about how AI can help spot early risk factors for Alzheimer's Disease and the field of computational health sciences.

The cellphone has come a long way since 1973, when Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, called Joel Engel at AT&T to let Engel know he had lost the race for a new technology. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the cellphone as an instrument of change with Christopher Guttman-McCabe, chief regulatory and communications officer at Anterix.

Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a Supreme Court ruling to overturn a 1984 decision, known as Chevron, that has instructed lower courts to defer to federal agencies when laws passed by Congress aren't crystal clear. Host Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the impact of t...

Keeping the lights on (KLO in electricity industry speak) presents a myriad of challenges for a Western electric cooperative that has both urban and rural customers, especially in a time of aberrant weather and energy transition. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell talk with Lisa Tiffin, senior vice president of energy management at the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Associa...

Lee Rainie, a former director of internet and technology research at the Pew Research Center, and now head of Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center, talks to Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III on AI's impact on the human workforce.

The longtime dream of a commercial fusion plant, supplying the nation with abundant clean energy, may soon be a reality. Brandon Sorbom, co-founder and chief scientist at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about how his work on superconducting magnets, which began as a student at MIT, has moved at a fast pace to a company marketing star...

White House Chronicle Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk about the people they knew, the print and broadcast outlets they worked for, and journalism today.

Dan Fine, a retired entrepreneur who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Khrystyna Drahomaretska, an architect-turned-animal shelter manager in Odesa, Ukraine, are leading a heroic effort to sterilize and vaccinate dogs -- in care or on the street -- and stop the spread of rabies. They spoke with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

When it comes to electricity supply, the United States is in a "hyper-complex risk environment," according to Jim Robb, president and CEO of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss with him the risks the nation's utilities and consumers have been facing from the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, th...

Writer and scholar Orville Schell began his study of China well before President Nixon's historic trip to China in 1972, ending 25 years of isolation between the United States and China, and resulting in establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries in 1979. Schell discusses "the end of U.S.-China engagement" with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell...

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. 

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.

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.

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 Ki...

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

The AI era is here and now, and the technology is changing faster than we can absorb how it is changing our lives, as Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III learn from this week's guest, David Derigiotis, an AI expert and TED talker.

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.

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.