Author James Ransome joins us; he is the Children’s Literacy Legacy Award Winner and the author of the new book “A Place for Us.” The book is a poignant wordless picture book about an unhoused boy and his mother. Ransome’s illustrations speak volumes as they convey not only what daily life looks like for this family, but also the love that they have for each other.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Chief of Staff and Vice President for Strategy and Policy at Bard College Malia DuMont, Senior fellow at the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College Ambassador Frederic Hof, Senior Fellow, Bard Center for Civic Engagement Jim Ketterer, and Political Consultant and lobbyist Libby Post.

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.

Howard Jones’ groundbreaking 1985 album, Dream Into Action, peaked on the UK charts and cracked the US Top 10. It went on to spawn global hit singles, “Things Can Only Get Better” (which experienced a resurgence after being featured on an episode of Netflix’s Stranger Things) and “No One is to Blame” as well as “Life in One Day” and “Like to Get to Know You Well."

Sifting through layers and layers of myth and legend—from nineteenth-century dime novels to prestige dramas to the casino billboards outside of present-day Deadwood— author Peter Cozzens unveils the true face of Deadwood South Dakota. He does so in his new book “Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West.” It is the true story of the Black Hills goldrush settlement once described as the most diabolical town on earth.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Former EPA Regional Administrator, Professor at Bennington College, and President of Beyond Plastics Judith Enck, Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI Jim Hendler, and Siena University Professor of Economics Aaron Pacitti.

“Trump, Tariffs, and the Trouble Ahead” is the name of the talk to be given by Paul Krugman the Nobel Prize-winning economist and former “New York Times” columnist at the New Marlborough Meeting House. It will explore the political and economic fallout of the second Trump Administration as well as the state of the nation and his career as one of Americas most prominent public intellectuals. It will be a candid and lively discussion led by Ellen Pollock, the Business Editor of “The New York Times.”

Award Winning tennis Writer Giri Nathan joins us to tell us the story of the end of one epic era in the sport of tennis and the birth of another in “Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis.”

It will be a lot of fun at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center on Saturday night as the film “Back to the Future” will be shown with The Philadelphia Orchestra playing the music. Yes, you can recharge your flux-capacitor and get ready to celebrate the movie classic as you’ve never seen or heard it before. It is celebrating its 40th Anniversary of the movie and it is incredible especially with the Philadelphia Orchestra. To tell us more we welcome Steve Linder. He is producer of Film Concerts Live who makes all of this possible.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are Preceptor in Public Speaking, Strategic Communications, and Public Relations for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University Terry Gipson, Grants analyst Emily Honen, and Mayor of the City of Albany Kathy Sheehan.