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Each weekday morning, WAMC’s President and CEO and Political Observer, Alan Chartock, and Roundtable Host Joe Donahue are joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.

Our Falling into Place series spotlights the important work of - and fosters collaboration between- not-for-profit organizations in our communities; allowing us all to fall into place. Falling Into Place is supported by The Seymour Fox Memorial Foundation, Providing a helping hand to turn inspiration into accomplishment. See more possibilities … see more promise… see more progress.This week we focus on the United Way of the Greater Capital Region’s Blake Annex, a co-working space in downtown Albany, New York. We are joined by: Peter Gannon, United Way of the Greater Capital Region President and CEO; Angelique Powell, Director of Community Animation at The Blake Annex; and Sarah Smith Syden, Executive Director, Girls on the Run Capital Region.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences and Founding Director of RPI’s Institute for Data, Artificial Intelligence and Computing Jim Hendler, political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, and investment banker on Wall Street Mark Wittman.

Bestselling author Nathalia Holt joins us to discuss her new book, Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage, a stunning true account that honors their legacy, heroism, and perseverance in the face of institutional inequality.

In "Different," world-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior to argue that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies. While humans and other primates do share some behavioral differences, biology offers no justification for existing gender inequalities.

Wall Street Journal energy reporter Katherine Blunt has been covering Pacific Gas and Electric and California’s wildfires since 2018, and her reporting on the story has received numerous awards. In her new book: "California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric And What It Means for America’s Power Grid," Blunt expands on her investigative work to expose how PG&E endangered the lives of millions of Californians.

It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros (best-selling author of "The House on Mango Street") published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, "Woman Without Shame" is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist.

Lake Paran in North Bennington, Vermont is hosting New England’s only Stone Skipping Festival on September 17th, from 1 to 6 p.m.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Siena College Professor of Comparative Politics Vera Eccarius-Kelly, immigration attorney and Partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, and corporate attorney with Phillips Lytle LLP Rich Honen.

Best-selling author and design critic Akiko Busch is here to discuss her new collection, "Everything Else is Bric-a-brac: Notes on Home." It is a collection of 60 short prose pieces that reflect, on the human condition and offer insights on family, domestic space, and a changing environment.