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“White House Chronicle” is a news and current affairs show known for its originality, crisp thinking, humor and panache. The show, hosted by veteran Washington journalists Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello, is interested in what is impacting the way we live and work now – including science, technology, medicine, energy, environment, books – and contributing to policy. It is eclectic – that is the “White House Chronicle” way.

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    • May 23, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    A journalist's life in full

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 27:51


    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's potential in the electricity sector

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 27:41


    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 Director of Scientific Computing & AI at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

    A way forward for public broadcasting

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 28:00


    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.

    Pioneers in cancer treatment and therapies to treat and prevent age-related diseases

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 27:44


    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 King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

    A lawyer's view of the risks and challenges of generative AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 27:51


    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. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III. 

    How an Austin entrepreneur helps innovators in Mexico and globally to create a positive impact.

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 27:54


    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.

    New imperatives in government contracting

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 27:46


    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.

    Canadian rage at Trump's threats

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 27:44


    "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 Powell is the result of President Donald Trump's sweeping Canada tariffs and threats.

    The consequences of the Voice of America shutdown

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 27:49


    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 California professor, and a former director of the Voice of America, talk with Host Llewellyn King about the work of VOA and the consequences of the shutdown.

    A geek's journey into the world of AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 27:54


    In this episode, Chris Brown, president of Intelygenz, and a self-described geek, talks with Host Llewellyn King about his start on a Commodore 64 in the north of England, and his current work to bring U.S. companies along on a "journey of confidence" in AI.

    White House chipping away at press freedoms

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 27:46


    The White House has seized control of the press pool from the White House Correspondents' Association. In this episode, Bob Deans, a journalist, author, and a former president of the association, describes the pool of reporters who cover the president that they are "proxies for those people across the country who care deeply about the presidency and will never have a chance to ask the president a question. .... It's a big responsibility." He talks about the vital issue of press freedom with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

    The Trump rift with Canada

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 27:41


    Charles McMillan, who served as senior policy advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1983 to 1987, now a professor of business a York University in Toronto, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the impact of President Trump's rift with Canada.

    Impact of Trump's medical research cuts

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 27:50


    Dr. Mitesh Rao, CEO and founder of OMNY Health, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the medical community's response to President Trump's drastic cuts on medical research at NIH, and their impact here and abroad.

    USAID from the inside

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 27:48


    Steven Hendrix, who was the highest-ranking USAID official at the State Department, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his work with USAID and how its loss will cost America.

    A new dimension in artificial intelligence

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2025 27:50


    Paul Lee, founder and CEO of Mind AI, based in Seoul, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his company's development of an AI technology that can explain its reasoning process. "We want everyone to trust AI technology more without worrying about hallucinations," he said.

    The new realities in journalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 27:34


    Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, discusses the new realities in journalism and their impact with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

    Connecting the world through electricity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 27:39


    Lawrence Jones is a global man. He was born and raised in Liberia, attended college in Sweden, and has just been inducted into the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. As the Edison Electric Institute's senior vice president of international programs, he runs an annual global electrification forum that crosses industry sectors, from AI to fashion to water."Electricity makes all these things happen, " he tells Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III in this episode.

    New times for the old Trump

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2025 27:41


    In the run-up to his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump has been showing his wild hand, from not ruling out military action to take Greenland and the Panama Canal to making Canada the 51st state to getting rid of windmills. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss how Trump's strategy is impacting the nation and the world.

    Emergency medical service instability in America

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025 27:42


    Gregg Lord, who has been involved in emergency response and preparedness for 44 years, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the issues that have led to significant instability in the emergency medical service structure in America.

    A Look Back at 2024 with an Eye on 2025

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2025 27:47


    Llewellyn King, Adam Clayton Powell III, Linda Gasparello

    A foundation's aspirations for AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 27:41


    Vilas Dhar, president and trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell II about the foundation's work and its global aspirations for AI.

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    Backdoors: The great vulnerability for AI

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 27:46


    David Derigiotis, an insurance expert and TED talker, is an AI enthusiast. But he is also a realist about the hurdles ahead for the development of this exciting technology. For example, backdoors and privacy. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

    Then and Now: Russian-American relations, and foreign correspondence

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 27:40


    Marvin Kalb, author, professor and a legend in broadcasting, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the early 1960s, when he was Moscow correspondent for CBS News, and the confrontation between Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, and President John F. Kennedy. It was "a different Russia," also the title of his new book, than the Putin-era one -- in which Putin, unlike Khrushchev, regularly turns his back on the West. Kalb also talks about the peril to democracies of a dearth of foreign correspondents.

    Rising U.S. electricity demand, and evolving nuclear industry

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2024 27:44


    James Schaefer, senior managing director of Guggenheim Securities Investment Banking, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the role "new safer and more robust" nuclear technologies might play for baseload, low-carbon electricity and to help the United States retain it leadership in fission. He also discusses the need for natural gas in the nation's energy mix. 

    The power of the new media

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2024 27:47


    Podcasts, social media, blogs, oh, my! These communications sources have been simmering in U.S. elections for years, but came to a boil in the 2024 elections. Geoffrey Cowan, director of USC's Annenberg 's Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, discusses the rise and impact of the new media with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

    AI should give the U.S. good reason to be optimistic

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 27:39


    Peter Morici thinks that AI gives Americans good reason to be optimistic. Morici, columnist, economist and emeritus business professor at the University of Maryland, looks at AI in an almost fatherly way. As AI grows up, there is going to be bad behavior, but we should watch for it not stifle the technology with regulation. It has the potential to do wonderful things, from finding us perfect matches to fostering new industries. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

    America the Enviable

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2024 27:48


    A cover story in The Economist shows why America is the envy of the world. Host Llewellyn King, Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III and Producer Linda Gasparello discuss that enviable position as the election enters its final stretch.

    Thorium's potential as a source of fuel for the future, and its other important uses

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 27:39


    John Kutsch, executive director of the Thorium Energy Alliance, believes fervently that "Thorium will power the world." In addition to its potential use as a fuel, it can also be used in medicine, alloys, coatings, and superconducting materials. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

    Navigating a world of deepfakes, disinformation, and AI-generated deceptions

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2024 27:39


    Perry Carpenter is chief human risk management strategist at KnowBe4, and author of "FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deefakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions." He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the mechanics behind deepfakes, disinformation, and other cognitive security threats, and how to survive in the ever more tangled digital jungle.

    The eye in the sky

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 27:40


    The space economy is growing rapidly. Currently, 90 countries have earth-imaging satellites in orbit. Mark Brender, a former ABC journalist, now a consultant to the geospatial and satellite Earth observation industry, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about how we are entering "an age of super-panoptical technocracy."

    Overcoming NIMBY opposition

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2024 27:40


    Not in my backyard (NIMBY) is a syndrome that has stymied the supply of homes, electricity, roads and other projects in the United States and abroad. Patrick Sleven's insights on NIMBYism come from his experience as mayor of Safety Harbor, a city on the west shore of Tampa Bay in Florida. He discusses ways to overcome NIMBYism with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

    "AI Now, AI Next, AI in the Wild"

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2024 27:55


    Adam Russell, head of AI research at USC's Information Sciences Institute, has an engrossing discussion with Adam Clayton Powell III, who guest hosts the episode, about the development of AI -- and what Russell terms "AI Now, AI Next, AI in the Wild." 

    Fools on the Hill

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2024 27:30


    Dana Milbank, a Washington Post opinion columnist, knows there is humor in truth. He has written a hilarious and truthful book on the dysfunctional state of the current Republican House, "Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House." Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III had the fun of talking, as Lewis Carroll's Walrus said, "of many things" with Milbank.

    A proposed undersea cable to power Puerto Rico

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 27:42


    Puerto Rico is vulnerable to devastating hurricanes, as is much of the Caribbean Basin. Adam Rousselle, CEO of the Caribbean Basin Power Authority, talks to Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his proposed undersea cable which would bring reliable and resilient electricity to Puerto Rico, and eventually to other locations in the Caribbean Basin.

    Disinformation is "No. 1 threat" to America

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 27:43


    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."

    Social disruptions injectable, weight-loss drugs might create

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 27:35


    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.

    Navigating the current media environment

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 27:39


    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.

    How AI Can Help Spot Early Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2024 27:23


    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 as an instrument of change

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2024 27:39


    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.

    The impact of the Supreme Court ending the Chevron deference

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 27:37


    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 this ruling with Clinton Vince, chair of the U.S. practice of Dentons, the global law firm.

    Keeping the lights on in four western states

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2024 27:35


    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 Association, based near Denver.

    Research on AI's Impact on the Future of Work

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 27:40


    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.

    A fusion reactor's high-speed journey from concept to commercialization

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 27:41


    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 power on Earth.

    Two hosts talking: The journalism that was and is

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2024 27:47


    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.

    A heroic effort to sterilize and vaccinate dogs in Ukraine, and halt the spread of rabies 

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 27:24


    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.

    The electricity supply crisis deepens

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2024 27:41


    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, the extreme weather events, security, and new in 2023, according to a recent NERC report, the surging growth in demand.

    The end of U.S.-China engagement

    Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2024 27:43


    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 III.

    U.S. air traffic control lags not leads

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2024 27:43


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2024 27:37


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 27:38


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2024 27:33


    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.

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