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Oscar Isaac as Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the Netflix film "Frankenstein." (Ken Woroner/Netflix)

Kelly McKinney: Thoughts on ‘Frankenstein,’ AI and the perils of our unfinished creation

November 29, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Only government regulation and transparency can ensure that artificial intelligence serves humanity rather than destroys it.

People wait outside the Atocha train station in Madrid after a massive power outage hit Spain on April 28, 2025. Power went out across all of Spain and Portugal, cutting cellphone and internet networks, halting trains and trapping people in elevators, officials said. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Kelly McKinney: The power blackout in Spain and Portugal wasn’t a fluke. It was the future.

May 12, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

In tightly coupled, highly complex systems such as the European energy grid, the next catastrophe is not caused. It is triggered.

People from various relief agencies guide people affected by the wildfires at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at Pasadena City College on Jan. 16, 2025, in Pasadena, Calif. (Etienne Laurent/AP)

Kelly McKinney: Chicagoans need FEMA — not to write checks but to coordinate aid

March 5, 2025 at 8:56 a.m.

FEMA was never meant to be just an insurance company for disaster-stricken states. It must lead an all-of-nation disaster system.

Joan Wallach, left, and her daughter Brenda walk through the debris that was the Royal Palm Trailer Court in Homestead, Florida, on Aug. 25, 1992, carrying the only possessions they could salvage from the trailer they lived in before Hurricane Andrew hit the south Florida city. (Lynne Sladky/AP)

Kelly McKinney: Disaster preparedness must be front and center in the presidential campaign

September 3, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

When it comes to response to catastrophes, little has changed in the decades since the botched Hurricane Andrew response.