Lisa Countryman-Quiroz talks about the current U.S. jobs slump, and how the organization she heads, JVS Bay Area, helps job seekers, from those just starting out to those starting over after a layoff. Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III co-host.

Hedrick Smith is a journalist in full: a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor, an Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent, and a best-selling author. Returning to "White House Chronicle," Smith discusses a wide range of topics, including President Trump's fixation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, how America became "two Americas economically," and America's drift into British-style "party government." He also talks about the book he is working on. Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III co-host.

Data center growth is accelerating: Hyperscalers, large tech companies, are heavily investing in building massive data centers to support their cloud and AI services. But local opposition to them is growing, too. HED's Bill Kosik talks about data center design and engineering considerations with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

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 "movement of blackness," led by Ghana's charismatic first president, Kwame Nkrumah. 

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 Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss these issues and more.

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 Clayton Powell III co-host.

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

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