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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.

(Airs 07/15/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: We’ll examine a new poll that finds a majority have an unfavorable view of The Supreme Court in the wake of its decision overturning Roe v. Wade, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on NY’s Chief Judges announcing she’ll be stepping down before the end of her term, and an in-depth interview about what school boards look like after voters went to the polls in May.

“It’s grand, it’s palatial, it’s beautiful,” says the anthropologist-in-residence for the NY Department of Sanitation about a sanitation garage. She is happy in her work... An anthropologist looks at what we throw away and what it says about us. Presented with the Sanitation Foundation. All music performed live.

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