White House Chronicle

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.

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.

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

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.

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.