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Video Interview Why are history grad students stuck with failing one-track model? By Craig Gurian \| Education, History NYU history professor Thomas Bender, who has written extensively on the past and future of the profession, discusses how the discipline's current insistence that the only successful outcome of doctoral education is a research-oriented academic career ill-serves students, the profession, and society at large.More	Video Interview Cheating culture By Craig Gurian \| Cultural values There is an epidemic of cheating in virtually every area of American life. David Callahan, the author of "The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead," describes the ugly reality and explains the factors behind the problem. Callahan was a founder of Demos, the public policy advocacy organization based in New York, and is currently a Senior Fellow at Demos.More
Video Interview America gets “measured” — and the results aren't pretty By Mike Alberti \| Economy A “century of progress” separates Asian Americans in New Jersey and Native Americans in South Dakota. Indeed, probing beyond GDP to assess the nation's progress, “The Measure of America" finds numerous and substantial gender, racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities. Remapping Debate interviews Sarah Burd-Sharps — co-director of the American Human Development Project and co-author of "The Measure of America” series — to discuss these gaps, how they came about, and what policy-makers can do to close them.More	Video Interview Putting current crisis for labor movement in context By Craig Gurian \| Unions Remapping Debate sat down down with Nelson Lichtenstein — MacArthur Foundation Professor of History and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara — to try to put the current crisis for the labor movement in context. The discussion included an assessment of the tactics of GOP governors and anti-union allies to set worker against worker, and a look at how the Obama Administration — from its handling of bank bailouts onward — effectively left the GOP and its allies free to set the terms of debate, most notably with the idea that the only thing to be done about state fiscal crisis is to cut programs, wages, and benefits.More
Video Interview Jacob Hacker: middle class keeps losing out By Craig Gurian \| Economy, Markets, Politics Jacob Hacker is co-author of the recently published "Winner-Take-All Politics." Remapping Debate sat down with him to discuss how and why corporations and wealthy individuals have been so successful since the 1970s — during both Democratic and Republican administrations — in vindicating their interests to the detriment of the vast majority of Americans.More	Video Interview James Loewen on telling the truth about Confederates and their latter day sympathizers By Craig Gurian \| History, Race James Loewen is co-editor of the recently published "Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader." According to Loewen, straightforward and unromanticized accounts of Confederate ideology remain, in many quarters, the historical truth that dare not speak its name.More

Video Interview Why are history grad students stuck with failing one-track model? By Craig Gurian \| Education, History NYU history professor Thomas Bender, who has written extensively on the past and future of the profession, discusses how the discipline's current insistence that the only successful outcome of doctoral education is a research-oriented academic career ill-serves students, the profession, and society at large.More	Video Interview Cheating culture By Craig Gurian \| Cultural values There is an epidemic of cheating in virtually every area of American life. David Callahan, the author of "The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead," describes the ugly reality and explains the factors behind the problem. Callahan was a founder of Demos, the public policy advocacy organization based in New York, and is currently a Senior Fellow at Demos.More
Video Interview America gets “measured” — and the results aren't pretty By Mike Alberti \| Economy A “century of progress” separates Asian Americans in New Jersey and Native Americans in South Dakota. Indeed, probing beyond GDP to assess the nation's progress, “The Measure of America" finds numerous and substantial gender, racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities. Remapping Debate interviews Sarah Burd-Sharps — co-director of the American Human Development Project and co-author of "The Measure of America” series — to discuss these gaps, how they came about, and what policy-makers can do to close them.More	Video Interview Putting current crisis for labor movement in context By Craig Gurian \| Unions Remapping Debate sat down down with Nelson Lichtenstein — MacArthur Foundation Professor of History and director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at the University of California, Santa Barbara — to try to put the current crisis for the labor movement in context. The discussion included an assessment of the tactics of GOP governors and anti-union allies to set worker against worker, and a look at how the Obama Administration — from its handling of bank bailouts onward — effectively left the GOP and its allies free to set the terms of debate, most notably with the idea that the only thing to be done about state fiscal crisis is to cut programs, wages, and benefits.More
Video Interview Jacob Hacker: middle class keeps losing out By Craig Gurian \| Economy, Markets, Politics Jacob Hacker is co-author of the recently published "Winner-Take-All Politics." Remapping Debate sat down with him to discuss how and why corporations and wealthy individuals have been so successful since the 1970s — during both Democratic and Republican administrations — in vindicating their interests to the detriment of the vast majority of Americans.More	Video Interview James Loewen on telling the truth about Confederates and their latter day sympathizers By Craig Gurian \| History, Race James Loewen is co-editor of the recently published "Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader." According to Loewen, straightforward and unromanticized accounts of Confederate ideology remain, in many quarters, the historical truth that dare not speak its name.More

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