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The dust is settling on an unusual midterm election. In today’s Congressional Corner, Tim Vercellotti of the Western New England University poll and professor of political science speaks with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

Silver, Cohn, 538, Cook…how did it all come out?In today’s Congressional Corner, Tim Vercellotti of the Western New England University poll and professor of political science continues his conversation with WAMC’s Alan Chartock. This interview was recorded November 10.

Today we talk astronomy with Bob Berman and Dr. Valerie Rapson. Call with your questions. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

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.

Today on Food Friday, Jennifer Clair, founder of Home Cooking New York, offers her home cooking tips and tricks for Thanksgiving. WAMC's Ray Graf hosts.

We are joined by Dr. William Douglas of St. Peter’s Musculoskeletal Medicine. Dr. Douglas and his colleagues at St. Peter's handle all types of joint, muscle, and nerve problems. Call with your question. 800-348-2551. Ray Graf hosts.

We are surrounded by death. It is in our news, our nursery rhymes, our true-crime podcasts. Yet from a young age, we are told that death is something to be feared. How are we supposed to know what we’re so afraid of, when we are never given the chance to look? Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Her book is "All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work."

Jerry Saltz is one of our most-watched writers about art and artists, and a passionate champion of the importance of art in our shared cultural life. Now, in his new book, "Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night," Jerry Saltz draws on two decades of work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of our times.

In "Ejaculate Responsibly," Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America. Her book is "Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion."