About the Author
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.
- Chuck Yeager, a Real Hero, Breaks Through in New Book
- COVID’s Legacy — the End of Service From Airlines to Banks
- Tears for a Queen, Tears for the Past — and Tears for Ourselves
- The Talent Shortage That Threatens Journalism
- Elizabeth, the Essential Queen, Dies
- Your Roof May Be the Next Big Thing to Be Uberized
- A New Day for Nuclear Power
- The Sad Fall of Lebanon, a Country That Produces Huge Talents
- Wireless Charging Is the Holy Grail of Electric Vehicle World
- New ‘Hunger Winter’ Looms as Europe Prepares to Shiver
- The Thrill of a Human Being on the Line
- When the Turmoil Subsides, We Will Be Living Differently
- If You Want To Get Climate Serious, Get Nuclear Serious
- Boris Johnson: The Fall of an Articulate Incompetent
- Happy Birthday, America; Now Mind How You Go
- An Electric Revolution Is Underway, but Revolutions Are Messy
- It Is the New Age of Creativity, Despite Shortages and Runaway Inflation
- Prepare for Blackouts Across the U.S. as Summer Takes Hold
- It May Be the Summer of Discontent, but the Sun Will Shine
- How Tai Chi Helps With Long Covid and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Spare Us the Thoughts and Prayers — We Are Past That
- Censorship Isn’t the Solution to Social Media’s Ills
- Many Newspapers Are on Death Row; Will They Be Reprieved?
- Fighting Wildfire With Fire, Lessons From Georgia and Florida
- Dark Clouds on the Horizon for Electric Vehicle Batteries
- The Threat of Nuclear War and the License It Has Given Putin
- A New Normal Will Take Time, Not Politics
- Before #MeToo, a Slap Deterred Many Unwanted Advances
- Biden’s Conflicted Gas Policies: One for Europe, Another for U.S.
- Political Class Isn’t Leveling With Us About the Hard Times Ahead
- Helping America by Helping Ukrainian Refugees — a Plan
- Putin’s Diabolical Romanticism Is Sinking the Global Economy
- The Wildfire Next Time: Drought Increases the Risks in the West
- Gas Is Needed in Foreign Policy and To Stabilize the U.S. Grid
- Stone Carving to Dickens: The Delights of a Charleston College
- The Biden Blues: Difficulties at Home, Big Trouble Abroad
- New Transmission Vital in Stabilizing the Electric Grid
- How Can We Spread the Innovation Culture to Old Business?
- 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
