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The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, political consultant and lobbyist Libby Post, Albany Law School Professor of Law, Director of The Justice Center and Director of Immigration Law Clinic Sarah Rogerson, and investment banker on Wall Street Mark Wittman.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin, President and CEO of The Business Council of New York State Heather Mulligan, and director, actor, and co-Founder of WAM Theatre Kristen van Ginhoven.

Democrats have the Senate and Republicans will soon have the House. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the second district, continues his interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

Fintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government, in despair because all the young people were leaving, opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity.

Bestselling author Nick Hornby is an icon in American pop culture and his latest brings his signature wit and appeal to his first nonfiction book in many years, "Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius." In it, he studies the cosmic link between these two unlikely creative geniuses.

In "Jack in the Box," O’Brien’s follow-up to his memoir "Jack Be Nimble," the director collects stories from the many productions he has worked on, the great talents he encountered and collaborated with (including Tom Stoppard, Mike Nichols, Jerry Lewis, Marsha Mason, and many others), and the choices he made, on the stage and off, that have come to define his career.

Democrats have the Senate and Republicans will soon have the House. In today’s Congressional Corner, Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern, a Democrat from the second district, continues his interview with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

This December, Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts takes audiences to the lively world of Jane Austen-inspired theater with a costumed, staged reading of “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley,” written by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon.The production is directed by Ariel Bock.

Will Ireland really reunite? Throughout the century since partition the unification of the two parts of the island seemed impossible. Many still feel that it is, particularly because of the bloody legacy of past conflict.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC's Alan Chartock, faculty at Bennington College, Founder of Beyond Plastics, former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck, Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI and Founding Director of the Future of Computing Institute at RPI Jim Hendler, and Siena College Professor of Economics Aaron Pacitti.