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(Airs 6/30/22 @ 1 p.m.) -- The Power of Words: On this program, WAMC's Alan Chartock and Historian Dr. Allida Black discuss First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt's Declaration of Human Rights speech. In addition, listeners will have an opportunity to actually hear the speech as it was delivered in Paris on December 9th, 1948.

(Airs 07/01/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Senator Gillibrand gathers with women in Albany to speak out against the Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v Wade, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on this week’s primary results, and a conversation about the new rules for horse racing which will impact Saratoga and beyond.

Much admired for his operas, composer Tod Machover contemplates a happy dichotomy: “These two places are perfectly balanced for the kind of work I do and the kind of life I lead.” Heaven and Hell? No! His old-fashioned barn-studio and the new-fangled MIT Media Lab. Technology, music, and more.

On this week’s 51%, we discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion in the United States. We speak with Albany Law School professor Vincent Bonventre about what this means for the Court, and hear from advocates on both sides of the debate over abortion rights. Albany Medical Center’s Dr. Rachel Flink also discusses how to pick and properly use the birth control method that’s best for you.

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history. In her new novel, "Horse," Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history.

On this week’s 51%: we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX. We look back on the history of the legislation and its impact on women’s sports, and civil rights lawyer Alexandra Brodsky discusses her book Sexual Justice, about how Title IX can better address cases of sexual harassment and assault.

(Airs 06/30/22 @ 3 p.m. & 07/02/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Georgana Hanson, Interim President & CEO of Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts.

(Airs 07/14/22 @ 3 p.m. & 07/16/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestselling author Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story in her new novel “This Time Tomorrow.”

(Airs 07/17/22 @ 6 p.m. & 07/18/22 @ 3 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, former Times Union Editor and current Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Judy, Ira, and Rex, talk about counting stories, whether journalists are all “rich elites”, the media controversy surrounding the release the Uvalde shooting video, and much more.