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 King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

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.

It is harder now for journalists to cover China than it has been at any time since the normalization of its relations with the United States in 1972. But coverage of China is essential and a rewarding beat. Mike Chinoy, author of "Assignment China" and a former CNN correspondent and David Lynch, Global Economics Correspondent at The Washington Post discuss their time in China with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

There was a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations under the Obama administration. What has become of it? And what is the future for that complicated relationship? Host Llewellyn King and Producer/Co-host Linda Gasparello visited the island recently and talked with Ryan Berg, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Nora Gámez Torres, a reporter for el Nuevo Herald and the Miami Herald Topic: Challenges for U.S.-Cuba relations

The United States is defenseless against a terror attack from weaponized "hobby" drones. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss this threat with Maj. Gen. James Poss, USAF (Ret.) and Richard Whittle, journalist and author, "Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution."

The demise of local newspapers is a critical threat to our democracy, as Martin Baron, former executive editor of The Washington Post, who started out in local news, told Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III. He also spoke candidly about coverage of the 2024 presidential election. This is Part II, and the final episode in the series.

Martin "Marty" Baron, the former executive editor of The Washington Post, talks about his time at the helm of three major newspapers and his book "Collision: Trump, Bezos and The Washington Post." Part I of II.

Is there a disconnect between politicians and intelligence collectors? Was the Israel-Hamas war, as were 9/11 and the Falklands War "a failure to warn and to imagine"? Michael Allen, managing director of Beacon Global Strategies, and Anthony Wells, author and a former intelligence agent, discuss the gathering and analysis of intelligence with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss a new "primer" on cybersecurity policy and technology with its authors, Derek Reveron , chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College and John Savage, professor emeritus of computer science at Brown University.

Is there a disconnect between politicians and intelligence collectors? Was the Israel-Hamas war, as were 9/11 and the Falklands War "a failure to warn and to imagine"? Michael Allen, managing director of Beacon Global Strategies, and Anthony Wells, author and a former intelligence agent, discuss the gathering and analysis of intelligence with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III talk to David Worsfold, author of a riveting book on the largely untold story of Churchill's effort to evacuate Allied military forces and civilians from ports in western France after Dunkirk, codenamed Operation Aerial.

The GI Bill greatly reduced the ranks of artisans in America. But there is a critical need for them. Hosts Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III talk to the provost and a graduate of the American College of the Building Arts, which provides a liberal arts education as well as a trade.