Vermont voters have chosen their next U.S. House representative. In today’s Congressional Corner, Vermont Congresswoman-elect Becca Balint, a Democrat at-large, speaks with WAMC’s Alan Chartock.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Diplomat in residence at Bard College Frederic Hof, Vice President for Editorial Development at the New York Press Association Judy Patrick, and investment banker on Wall Street Mark Wittman.

In his new book, The Greatest Evil Is War, Chris Hedges makes a clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others.

Leila Philip will celebrate the release of “Beaverland” in two events in our region this week - the first in an Oblong Books event at Morton Memorial Library in Rhinebeck, New York tonight, the second at Hudson Hall in Hudson, NY on Friday, December 9.

How old is too old to control the red phone?In today’s Congressional Corner, WAMC’s Alan Chartock wraps up his conversation with former Deputy Solicitor of the United States Philip Lacovara.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, UAlbany Lecturer in Africana Studies Jennifer Burns, Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany Robert Griffin, and Vice President for Editorial Development at The New York Press Association Judy Patrick.

This week's Book Picks come from Heather Boyne of Battenkill Books in Cambridge, New York.

Democrats hold the Senate and Republicans are ascendant in the House.In today’s Congressional Corner, WAMC’s Alan Chartock continues his conversation with former Deputy Solicitor of the United States Philip Lacovara.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, research professor and Stuart Rice Honorary Chair at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) and Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University Fran Berman, The Empire Report’s J.P. Miller, and former Associate Editor of the Times Union Mike Spain.