Llewellyn King, Author at InsideSources

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Llewellyn King

Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle” on PBS. His email is [email protected] and you can follow him on Twitter @LlewellynKing2. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.

How I Came To Fall for Taylor Swift Big Time
Joe Madison Thinks Voting Rights Are Worth Risking His Life For
Echoes of the Vietnam War: Journalists Begin To Take a Stand
The 2022 Climate Debate: Will Population Growth Dominate?
The Trials of Gift Giving: Perfume in Decline, Neckties Out
People Moving Is the Exciting New Urban Frontier. Hold On!
A Young Man’s Christmas in Africa
The Late, Great Energy Pioneer, Richard ‘Dick’ McCormack
Lessons of ’70s Energy Crisis Have Meaning in Today’s Climate Crisis
Wyoming Is a Gripping Location for Psychological Mysteries
Nuclear Power Is a Victim of the Culture Wars. It Needs Rescuing
How the Consumer Will Become a Partner on the Electric Grid
Ford F-150 Lightning Pickup Will Strike Down Social Barriers
The Queen Stars in the Greatest Show on Earth, and on PBS
Immigration: Hard Heads and Bleeding Hearts Don’t Align
Shutting Out Natural Gas Can Destabilize the Electric Grid
British Electricity Hit Hard by Wind Failure and Gas Shortage
Down with the Boss, Up with the Gig Worker!
Cash Is Disappearing, Stranding the Unbanked in Crisis
A Societal Earthquake Is Shaking the U.S. Across Many Fronts
Your Utility Should Expect the Unexpected, It’s on the Way
The Three Exports from Afghanistan That Are Coming: Heroin, People and Terrorism
The Great Adventure of a Life in Journalism
The Social Scolds Are Set To Take Up Global Warming
Resilience Is Byword as Utilities Battle New Stresses
Nuclear Literacy Can Save Nuclear Power
Drought Will Destabilize the West, Forcing Huge Changes
Shove This Job Is the Theme of the Great Labor Reshuffle
On Slipping the Surly Bonds of Sunday Shows and Flying with Branson
The Battleground of the Internet: Lies Tangling with Truth
About the Wall and the Case for Ad Hoc Energy Policy
Kamala Harris Has Reputation for Asking, but Not Taking, Questions
The Great Western Drought Will Affect Us All
Tricky Recovery as Western Drought Looms Over Summer
TVA Pulling Out of a Nuclear Plant Sale Raises Green Issues
How Summer Has Become So Very Special in America
Tech Ecosystem to Help Electric Utilities Go Digital
Where Have All the Restaurant Workers Gone?
Confessions of an Uncredentialed Man
Biden Is Sitting Atop a Technological Revolution, Not Leading It
Scorned Low-Level Radiation Could Save Many in India’s Crisis
English Law Is the Gold Standard in Central Asia’s Kazakhstan
Psychiatrist Would Abandon Research on Long COVID and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Alternative Energy Hailed as a Megatrend, Disrupting World Order
The Great American Reset Is Underway and Will Change Everything
How China’s Rare Earths Monopoly Controls Our Destiny
G.K. Chesterton on When a Donkey Had a Divine Assignment
Long COVID Has a Baffling Sister: ME/CFS
The Day We Abandon Our Nationality for an Irish One
Phones Are Better and Better, But Nobody Is Making Calls
The Texas Energy Mess Needs a Czar To Take Charge
How Will We Dress Post-COVID Now That Comfort Is In?
Texas Today, Who and Where Tomorrow? Action Needed
Edison’s Birthday Is a Busy Time for His Follow-on Inventors
Social Media and the Mob Factor
Don’t Starve the Energy Beast When a Diet Will Do
It Was a Great Inaugural, but Did Biden Wade in Too Far, Too Fast?
Silicon Valley and Its Unique Challenge to Freedom of Speech
The Capitol Enshrines All the Best of Our Aspirations
Big Tech Should Be Left Alone While It Is Still Creating
Second Christmas on Great Day When COVID-19 Is Conquered
Jennifer Granholm, Meet the Awesome Department of Energy
Those Who Resist Masks Are a Tribe That Has Lost Its Head
How COVID-19 Points the Way to Faster Medicines in the Future
Trust Deficit Endangers Benefits From Vaccine Due Next Month
Don’t Worry About the Side Effects, Rigidity Is the Problem
Virus Will Harm Thanksgiving and Christmas as the Crisis Worsens
How Polls Cause Political Pied Pipers To Join the Rats
The Great Issues Were Not Raised In This Campaign
Is COVID-19 Killing New York, America’s Iconic City?
Amy Coney Barrett Is The Right Judge at the Wrong Time
The Bleak Winter Ahead: Unemployment and a Contested Election Result
Biden’s Environmental Plan Needs a Reality Check
Oh, For Old-Fashioned Conservative Values, Not Trumpism
Democrats Have the Biden Blues — Where Is the Passion?
Job Retraining Is Just a Callow Slogan, It Doesn’t Help Aptitude
Editing and Sanitizing History Is Vandalism
City Story — Planting Trees for Health and Data-Mining Sewage
Save Disgusting Social Media From Censorship
Banks to Make Investments Greener (Democrats Please Note)
American Individualism Is Dividing and Killing Us During COVID-19
How Tortoise Rides Led to Hope for COVID-19 and Alzheimer’s
Future Indicative — Work From Home Will Change Everything
Future Indicative — Work From Home Will Change Everything
Are Manchurian Candidates Lurking in the Electric System?
Repurposing and Science — the Way to Go With COVID-19
No Money, No Pay, No Choice: The Ticking Economic Bomb
Requiem for the Necktie and Men’s Fashion Altogether
Open Letter to the New Postmaster General
History Shows That Reform Is Perishable
The Demonstrations Are the Sum of All America’s Frustrations
Expect the COVID-19 Crisis to Unleash Rush of Innovation
Gallery of Snapshots Tells Us Where We Are Headed, Perhaps
Study Offers Cross-Industry Innovation in the COVID-19 Fight
Business Dating Introduces Start-Ups to Big Suitors
COVID-19 Makes Case for Support of Continuous Scientific Research
When It’s Over, Fix the Gig Economy and Bring Back the WPA
Earth Day Brings Hope in a Time of Crisis
A New Age of Innovation Will Follow COVID-19
Mobilizing Science: Lessons From the Energy Crisis
Electricity Is the Silent Friend as We Battle the Silent Enemy
How to Manage Time — When There Seems to Be Too Much of It
So Now We Have the Time, What Will We Do With It?
Will Coronavirus Jolt Us Into a New Reality?
Through New Book We Meet Lincoln Again — Differently
Wanted: XPRIZE to Find Solutions to the Nuclear Waste Mess
Frontrunner Sanders Gets It All Wrong
Cry, the Beloved Democracy
Valentine’s Dog Days of Love, but Not for Trump
Hydrogen Is Back as the Green Fuel of the Future
One Man Has Reinvented Foreign Aid
Grid Cybersecurity — the Threat Grows, Defenses Evolve
New York and London Mayors Choose to Posture on Climate
U.S. Takes Shenanigans From Zambia Lying Down
The Cold War of Cyberattack Is Heating Up for Utilities
Holidays Are an Especially Hard Time for Those Who Hurt
How Europe Stole Christmas — and the Hearts of the World
Britain’s Exit Could Rejuvenate the European Union
Does the Queen Have a Fondness for Trump?
The Energy Executive and the Homeless — Sleeping on Concrete
Santa’s Gift to the Democrats — Will They Break It While Opening It?
How to Attack Cancer, Other Things With Data Mining
Warren’s Weakness — She Always Takes the Bait
Fixes for California Utility Fires Are Few, Slow and Expensive
Up, Up and Away! My Travels With Kindle
The Business Case for National Insurance
The Voice of Edmund Burke Speaks Across Time
Horrific Disease Ignored, Unreported in Minority Communities
The Invasion of Cities by Drones Is Underway
Drones Pose a New, Deadly Threat to Energy Infrastructure
Health Care, Where the Simple Solution Is the Best
Robert Mugabe and the Making of a Dictator
Beware of the Slavery of Polls and the Evils of Direct Democracy
Smart Cities Need to Be Super-Efficient and Walkable, Too
Labor Day — the Untrammeled Joy of a Three-Day Holiday
A Plea to Solve One Part of the Immigration Puzzle
Carbon Capture Gets a Starring Role in the Energy Future
Apparently, the Left Wants to Destroy Health Care to Save It
The Race Card Stultifies Speech
Nuclear Industry Claims Embedded Prejudice in Finance Agency
Up, Up and Away — Electricity Takes to the Skies
An Immigration Fix That Can Happen Now
Happy Birthday, America, Still Land of Dreams
Flamboyant, Scandal-Plagued Boris Set to Be U.K. Prime Minister
The Miracle of Electricity, and More to Come
On Health Care, Trump Grabs the U.K.’s Third Rail, Lets It Go Fast
Kazakhstan, From the Silk Road to the High-Tech Highway
The Digital Future — Further Monetizing Your Home
Urban Walkability Is the New Measure of Livability
The Technological Gentrification of Cities
The Green New Deal — an Imperfect Force in 2020?
For Trump, His Election Was a Hostile Takeover
Words Are the Munitions of Politics, Beware of Them
Can You Mourn a Building? Yes, If It’s Notre Dame
Information Technology and Democracy — a Light That Failed
Britain Sets Sail for the Past — Old Glories and New Realities
Boeing Casts a Shadow Over the Future of Automated Systems
Press Briefings Are U.S. Equivalent of Prime Minister’s Questions
St. Patrick’s Day and the Irishing of the World
The Airplane of the Future Is Electric and It’s Taking Off Now
Will Smart Cities Be Haven for New Kind of Lawyer?
Look Up! The Age of the Delivery Drone Is Dawning
Go Green on the High-Tech Bandwagon
New Tech Bonanza Will Be the Digital Takeover of Cities
Want to Be President? Then Learn the Politics Trade
Call Me Madam — Women Who Would Be President
The Real Crisis: Stubborn Belly Fat
Trump’s Right About Wheels, Less So About Walls
The Coming Convulsion of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
World’s Glitteriest Conference
Campaigning for Neckties and Against AI in 2019
Christmas Is Coming — I Know Because There’s a Cake!
Christmas in Europe Coming Under Leaden Skies
Time for a Little Trumpish Positive Non-Believing
The Kiss of Amazon Comes Very Dear
My Poetic Quest to Understand Artificial Intelligence
It Will Be the Best of Futures, and the Worst of Futures
Walking Toward Hope on the Southern Border
Brexit Equals Severe Storms in English Channel, Irish Sea
Hurricanes Could Blow In a Carbon Tax
Do You Want a Faceless Algorithm Deciding What You Read?
Achieve the American Dream, Start a (Little) Business
The Rush To Smart Cities Is On
Are We Surrendering Americanism to Identity Politics?
Cyberattack on the Infrastructure Alarms Petraeus, Coats
Are the Environmentalists Making Another Mistake?
Nuclear Engine to Change Nuclear Future, Simplify Waste Issue
The President Sinks Into the Cesspool of Vengeance
No, Mr. President, We’re Not the ‘Enemy of the People’
GOP Stalwarts Push for Grand Bargain — Regulatory Relief, Carbon Tax
The Monster Disease Medical Schools Don’t Mention
Smart City Revolution Is Underway, Changing Old and New
Rupert Murdoch, Mischief-Maker on a Global Scale
The Case for Saving Nuclear Is Not the Case for Saving Coal
Trump Foreign Policy Sneers at Europe, Winks at Russia
Sanders Deserved What Burton and Taylor Got — Privacy
GOP Establishment Savants Speak Softly, Back a Carbon Tax
The Case Against Mega Mergers Is Written in History
Customer Frustration Drove Many to Vote for Trump
You Need to Be Brave for This New World
A Third Way on Immigration Proposed by Tax Expert
Remembering Tom Wolfe, Revolutionary in a White Suit
Tensions and Pretensions at the Correspondents Dinner Table
Life at the Top With Rupert Murdoch
The Private Car Is a Miracle — It Gets Better and Better
Congress to Hear From an Army of Very Sick Petitioners
The New Education — Chisels, Hammers, Saws and Dickens
The Death of Martin Luther King Jr. and the End of Patriotism
Would Earmarks Restore Purpose to Being in Congress?
Skilled Jobs Go Begging Now, But Thinking Machines Are Coming
An Authentic Dublin Pub Crawl in Celebration of St. Patrick’s Day
Cyberwarfare Has the Electric Grid as Prime Target
My Failed Love Affair With Guns
Learn a Trade, Study Liberal Arts at Tiny, One-Stop College
The King File: Valentine’s Day, Gin & Tonic, Etc.
Why Doesn’t Elon Musk Thrill Us Like Tech-Frontiersmen of Old?
The Late, Great von Hoffman; Pets on Airlines; Etc.
Tennessee Firm Makes Fresh Water From Air
The King File: Future of Work, Euro Trains, the Grammys
Solar Will Adjust to Trump’s Tariff, but It Is a Disruptive Move
The King File: WashPost Drama, Paul Bocuse, Etc.
The Power of the State Shredding the Sanctity of Families
The King File: Civility, Puerto Rico, Etc.
There’s Work Aplenty in the Trades, but Stigma Abounds
The King File: Sale of Westinghouse, Detective Fiction, Trebek, Etc.
The Infrastructure Is Out of Luck as the Treasury Is Out of Money
The King File – Weather, Puerto Rico, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Latest
The Infrastructure Challenge — How Do You Do Big Things in an Election Year?
The King File – Churchill and Short Books
A Misfit’s Christmas
The King File – Christmas, Dog Poems, Tax Cuts
The ‘Fake’ Accusation Is Offering Comfort and Cover to Dictators
The King File
How You Kiss Under the Mistletoe and Other Changes in 2017
The King File
When Zimbabwe Was Camelot, More or Less
A Movie David Goes Against a Goliath of a Disease
A New Rolls-Royce, Just in Time for the Holidays
When the Light Fails — Modern Society’s Weakest Link
The Internet of Things Has Turned on Me, Big Time
The Electric Revolution Is About To Upend Transportation
The Case for the Eight Hundred Thousand Innocents
Looking for the Next Big Thing: Innovation’s Rocky Path
Welcome to the World of Unintended Consequences — Tax
Talking Heads Are the Salt and Fat Diet of Television News
Electricity Can Help Africa’s Growing Population Crisis
Washington’s New Dance Craze — the Perplexity Quickstep
Existential Fear of Climate Change Reshaping Policy
Elon Musk and the Power of Celebrity
Oh, America, My Adopted Land, What Are You Doing to Your Special Self?
A Disease That Cries Out for Research as Many Suffer Silently
The Ties that Bind, Old-School and Otherwise
China’s Not So Secret Weapons — Rare Earths
Scaramucci’s Vain Quest to Stop the Leaks
Airlines: The Uncomfortable, Dangerous Skies
A Plea to Start Again on the Whole Issue of Health Care
Europeans Feel They Can’t Trust U.S. in the Time of Trump
Somebody Tell the President How We Got ‘Dominance’ in Energy
Covering the White House, From Twilight to Dark
Nuclear Booms in Asia as New Reactor Ideas Flourish in U.S.
Whoosh! The Electric Car Is Rolling into American Life
Trump’s Foreign Policy — Punish Friends, Reward Enemies
The Awful Budget and the Ugly Thinking Behind It
The Air Traffic Control System Is a Miracle, Handle with Care
Electricity Is the Big Future Winner for Cars, Even Small Planes
The New Language of the New Trumpian Politics
Research Funding — Scientists Fear as the Sick Despair
The Supreme Ugliness of the Deportation Regime
United Airlines Is Just One Miscreant in the Age of Frustration
Electricity Is the Gift That Can Keep on Giving in Africa
Regulation Can Be a Huge Goad to Innovation and Creativity
The Battle for America Is the Battle for Science
Good Reason to Look at Health Care Anew
St. Patrick’s Day and the Delicate Matter of Irish Immigration
Some Flaws in Trump’s Assumptions
Mass Deportations — the Surfacing of the Worst in Us
The Horror When the Men from ICE Come Knocking
Infrastructure Needs Bring Comity to Congress
A Primer for Steve Bannon on the Media
Trump Takes Washington in a Storm, but Why the Hurry?
The Left Should Stop Whining and Start Influencing Trump
Power — the Lure of Washington
The ‘Quaking Hour’ of Governance Begins with Trump’s Tweets
The Big Ideas of 2016 — Myths, Lies and a Dismal Narrative
The People Who Give Us Gifts All Year — the Overcomers
An Open Letter to Rick Perry, U.S. Energy Secretary Nominee
The Gig Economy Is the Future and It Is Coming Fast
Humor — The Donald and the Art of the Tweet
Fake News and the Winds of Hate Roil the U.S.
Pardon Me, Rhode Island, but You Have Lovely Manners
Trump Needs to Turn to the Graybeards for Stealthy Help
Trump’s Washington — a Government of Strangers
The Choice — Gender Politics or Shake, Rattle and Wobble
The Political Architecture of Britain and America Under Attack
Oh, My Gourd! Pumpkins Are on the Loose
After the Hurricane, There Are Real Heroes up the Pole
Office Seekers Beware — It Is a Rough Road Ahead
Rattled by the Ghosts of Presidents Past
Novel Revives Vietnam War Memories — and Lessons
No End to the Cold War’s Expensive Nuclear Legacy
There Is a Labor Shortage, but Not for Arts Grads
Clinton and Trump, the Scripted and the Spontaneous
The Future of Energy Storage — ‘Sisyphus Railroad’
How John McLaughlin Blew Up Television Talk Shows
The Gatekeepers Are Running the Government
Vietnam Wants to Be America’s Bridge to North Korea
The Emerging Horror of Trumpism — Abuse Without Policy
The ‘Formula’ That Made Roger Ailes and Fox
The Cruel Market — Nuclear Pain and Environmental Loss
Satire — ‘The Chairman Will See You Now’
Let Britain Be a Warning to Trump — and Hillary
The Role of England in the British Debacle
Do the Candidates Understand the Pace of Change?
Environmentalists Should Try an Ocean Tack
Enter Trump as the New Loch Ness Monster
The Pernicious Effects of Polling on Elections
The Great Middle Class Awakening and Its Torchbearer
Crime, War and Mischief Are the Internet Norms
How the Ghost of Watergate Haunts This Election
Underwear Goes on the Outside for Charity
Beltway Job Seekers Are Rested and Ready for the New President
The Body Language of This Election
Misadventures of Howard Hughes Can Teach Electric Utilities
A Third Way to Fix the Undocumented Workers Problem
The Myth of Immigrant Assimilation
The Tribulations of the Ultra Rich
Britain’s Woes and England’s Fears
When Ireland’s Pain Was America’s Gain
Beware of the Loving Embrace of the Government
Danger — Markets Don’t Do Flat Growth Well
The U.S.’s Year of Thinking Dangerously
Cancer ‘Moonshot’ Has Paltry Dollars, Losers
Nuclear Inventions Are Here, But Not to Stay
The Sustaining Knock on the Door
The Future of Britain Is on the Ballot
Lament of the Airline Coach Passenger
Busting Statues Is Like Burning Books
The Internet of Things Is the Real Person of the Year
The Pain In With the Glitter
Margaret Thatcher’s War That Made the Falklands
A New Approach to Revolutionize Clinical Trials
All Hail Thanksgiving, So American a Day
The Carbon Solution Obama Won’t Take to Paris
A Plan to Save the Debates
The Collision Course in the South China Sea
You Can Keep Cutting Taxes If You Want to Pay the Price
Signaling Climate Virtue in Paris
Llewellyn King: AARP Is Alienating Me and Other Oldsters
The Riddle of the U.S. Snub of Jordan
Llewellyn King: How to Learn to Love Stoplights and Your Electric Car
Llewellyn King: Bill Richardson Says We Should Honor Russia Plutonium Deal
Llewellyn King: Advice for GOP Debaters
Llewellyn King: The Efficient, Stupid Market for Nuclear Electricity
Llewellyn King: In Search of the Real Elizabeth Warren
Llewellyn King: The Stripping of Man: Hats, Ties, Now Socks
Llewellyn King: The Rare Promise of Thorium Reactors
Llewellyn King: U.S. Loves Engineers, Treats Them Badly

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