The Roundtable

Each weekday morning, The Roundtable's Joe Donahue is joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.

The newest book from V, formally Eve Ensler, is “Reckoning” and it invites us to travel the journey of a writer’s and activist’s life and process of over 40 years.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Executive Director of The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York Nic Rangel and public policy and communications expert Theresa Bourgeois. The RT is joined by special guests for this panel. Pulitzer Prize winning "New York Times" American investigative journalist Russ Buettner and Pulitzer Prize winning "New York Times" Canadian investigative journalist Susanne Craig to talk about their book "Lucy Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success." Later on, Soviet-born American businessman and former associate of Rudy Guliani Lev Parnas and his wife Svetlana Parnas will join us as well to talk about the documentary "From Russia with Lev."

What comes to mind when we think of stadiums in the United States of America. For most of us its entertainment, football games, Taylor Swift concerts, monster truck rallies, and rodeos. But as historian Frank Andre Guridy reveals in his book “The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play,” over the past 150 years they have been where people gather to wrestle over defining the soul of America.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are President/CEO of the McLean Collective with areas of focus – equity, team building, and leadership Kathleen McLean, Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at Together for Youth Jaye Holly , Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; College Diversity Officer | Title IX Coordinator - Bennington College Alfredo Medina, Jr., Ph.D., Executive Director of The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York Nic Rangel, and Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick.This live panel at The Linda was focused on DEI – Diversity, Equity and inclusion.

There will be a thrilling afternoon of music on September 21st at the New Marlborough Meeting House as the award-winning electric acoustic violin and cello duo, Arkai, appears in concert at the Meeting House.

In the new book “Animals I Want to See: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Projects and Defying the Odds” Tom Seeman, who went to go graduate Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa at Yale, nailed a perfect score on his LSATS, and attended Harvard Law looks back on his hard scrabbled childhood in Toledo, Ohio during the turbulent 1960s and 70s.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Albany Law School Professor Sarah Rogerson, Partner with the Albany law firm of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, Cianna Freeman-Tolbert, Siena College Professor of Comparative Politics Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin, and Alex Nowrasteh is the vice president for economic and social policy studies at the CATO Institute.

After 35 plus years is a touring U.S. comedian, Lewis Black, is parking his tour bus for good. Marking the end of his legendary world touring career. He will be preforming this Saturday the 21st at the Mahaiwe Theater in Great Barrington Massachusetts for his "Goodbye Yeller Brick Road, The Final Tour."

Alice Driver’s new book “Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company” is an exposé covering over a decade in the lies of Tyson factory workers across several plants in the state of Arkansas. It is a behind the scenes look at how Tyson has such a firm hold on both U.S. and Arkansas state policy, to such an extent that workers are left with no recourse and little hope of improved lives.