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How far does the Second Amendment go? In today’s Congressional Corner, WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Philip Lacovara.

Today's Book Picks come from Matt Tannenbaum from The Bookstore in Lenox, Massachusetts.

The Empire State Youth Orchestra (ESYO) is known regionally and nationally as a premiere performance institution for young musicians living in Upstate New York and Western New England. They have now returned to rehearsals for the 2021-2022 Season.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond.Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, research professor and Stuart Rice Honorary Chair at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Fran Berman, political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, and Albany Law School professor and Director of the Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson.

Roe v. Wade may be on borrowed time.In today’s Congressional Corner, WAMC’s Alan Chartock continues his conversation with Philip Lacovara.

Before Covid-19, public health programs constituted only 2.5 percent of all US health spending, with the other 97.5 percent going towards the larger health care system. In fact, the United States spends on average $11,000 per citizen per year on health care, but only $286 per person on public health. It seems that Americans value health care, the medical care of individuals, over public health, the well-being of collections of people. In "Me vs. Us," primary care doctor and public health advocate Michael Stein takes a hard, insightful look at the larger questions behind American health and health care.

Peter Hughes, Manager of The Linda: WAMC's Performing Arts Studio, joins us with a preview of upcoming events and broadcasts.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC's Alan Chartock, investigative journalist and adjunct professor at UAlbany and RPI Rosemary Armao, Publisher Emeritus of The Daily Freeman Ira Fusfeld, and Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick.

In her first book, former TV Broadcaster Nancy Regan gives us a behind-the-scenes account of her experience hosting a successful newsmagazine – all while studiously concealing fear, insecurity, and self-doubt. In “From Showing Off to Showing UP,” Regan explores how overcoming these challenges enriched her life and now fuels her ability to help others.

With global warming projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, activist Andrew Boyd is thrown into a crisis of hope, and off on a quest to learn how to live with the "impossible news" of our climate doom. He searches out eight of today's leading climate thinkers and asks them: "Is it really the end of the world? and if so, now what?"His book is "I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor."