Our Shows
51 Percent
WAMC News Podcast
A NY Minute In History
Any Questions?
The Media Project
The Book Show
The Legislative Gazette
The Best Of Our Knowledge
Latest Podcasts
#1571: Students Learn To Identify Domestic Violence; Managing Menopause
On this week’s 51%, a class helps students recognize domestic violence; hear about the Hormone Fix; and Dr. Jeri Burns wants to share good news. One in three American adolescents is a victim of physical, sexual, emotional or verbal abuse from a dating partner. To...
WAMC News Podcast – Episode 36
On this episode of the WAMC News Podcast, students head back to school. Pittsfield gets a new fire chief. The Northeast prepares for the upcoming U.S. Census. And Vermont takes new steps to fight the opioid crisis.
#1511: “The Baltimore Algebra Project”
A teacher in Baltimore thinks one solution to his city’s failing schools is tapping an underused asset: the students. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, a conversation about the Baltimore Algebra Project. We’ll also spend an Academic Minute with basic math, and how...
#1624: Ibram X. Kendi’s “How To Be An Antiracist”
Ibram X. Kendi is the founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. He is also a columnist at The Atlantic and Author of “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” which won the National...
WAMC News Podcast – Episode 35
The overpopulation of wild horses in the western United States has led the federal government to remove some of them. How best to protect the animals is up for debate. Some activists feel the horses should be free, while the U.S. Bureau of Land Management seeks to...
#1474: President Trump Story Coverage, Bernie Sanders’ Journalism Plan, Media And The Opioid Crisis
The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Times Union Editor Rex Smith, Rosemary Armao, Former Editor and Investigative Journalist, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media...