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On this week’s 51%, we discuss the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. WAMC’s Pat Bradley takes us to a protest at SUNY Plattsburgh. Former U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner offers her thoughts on the opinion. And Mount Holyoke College’s Cora Fernández Anderson shares how the decision might impact abortion rights movements in other countries.

On this week’s 51%, we bring you tales of resilience. Zain Asher of CNN International discusses her new book, Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable, and reflects on her mother’s strength as an immigrant and single mother in South London. Also, author Liisa Jorgensen shares the love story of Apollo 8 Commander Frank Borman and his wife, Susan.

(Airs 05/26/22 @ 3 p.m. & 05/28/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Republican gubernatorial candidate Andrew Giuliani about his campaign and the issues he thinks are most important to New Yorkers.

We note with chagrin that while we’ve had many doctors on the show, Diana Mason is our first nurse. In addition to being a practitioner, she’s worked on health policy at Georgetown and is a professor emerita at Hunter. “We like to tell our journalism colleagues that if you’re not interviewing a nurse, you’re likely missing the best part of the story.” She’s right. Except about my being a journalist.

(Airs 10/14/21 @ 1 p.m.) An encore program today with WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Amy Bass, Author of One Goal: A Coach, A Team, And The Game That Brought A Divided Town Together.

Dan Chaon’s latest thriller, “Sleepwalk,” is a high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big-hearted mercenary. The novel examines where we’ve been and where we’re going and the connections that bind us, no matter how far we travel to dodge them or how cleverly we hide.

(Airs 06/23/22 @ 3 p.m. & 06/25/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado about leaving Congress to run for Lt. Governor of New York.

(Airs 06/26/22 @ 6 p.m. & 06/27/22 @ 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, Adjunct Professor at RPI and Investigative Journalist, Rosemary Armao, and Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association. On this week’s Media Project, Alan, Rex, Rosemary and Judy talk about whether there’s still too much coverage of former President Trump, whether Facebook and other social media should pay for the news, and much more.

(Airs 06/24/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: The US Supreme Court has struck down New York’s restrictions on carrying a concealed weapon in public spaces, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on next weeks’ primaries in NY, and the governor signs a voting rights package into law.