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((Fred Froehlich))
A Daily News investigation discovered a deadly lack of City oversight during the current building boom. We’ll explore the relationship between the “honor system” for developers in New York City and the deaths of dozens of construction workers. Also, what do we mean by the term “American hegemony”?; America’s origins at Jamestown; and more questions for Time magazine’s Baghdad bureau chief, Bobby Ghosh.
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Bobby GhoshConstruction Boom-Doggles
Brian Kates, reporter for the New York Daily News, reports on the City's deadly lack of oversight of building construction, and Oona Adams, chief researcher of the Greater New York Laborers-Employers Cooperation and education Trust who represents union workers and employers in construction, looks at the use of undocumented employees ...
View of the News in Baghdad
Bobby Ghosh, Baghdad bureau chief for Time magazine, fills us in on the latest from Iraq as part of a month-long series.
"Empirical" Evidence
We continue our conversation about the U.S. and “empire” with Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a senior research fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The author of Empire: The Rise and Demise of ...
Jamestown: 400 Years and Counting
Tim Hashaw, journalist and the author of The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown (Carroll & Graf, 2007) and Karen Ordahl Kupperman, professor of history at New York University and the author of The Jamestown Project (Belknap Press, 2007), discuss new ...
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, professor of history at NYU, at the WNYC studio to discuss her new book "The Jamestown Project" in regards ...