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Nuclear power industry execs testified in Washington yesterday that we have nothing to worry about – except perhaps the fact that almost all American nuclear power plants have backup batteries that would last only half as long as those at Japan’s troubled Fukushima. DAN HIRSCH comments: he’s head of Committee to Bridge the Gap, which has been fighting nuclear power for more than three decades.
Plus, our Wisconsin update: JOHN NICHOLS reports live from Madison – he calls it “Lawless FitzWalkerstan.” WATCH recall campaign TV ad HERE
Also: Lincoln and slavery: how our greatest president changed his mind about abolition, emancipation, and black voting rights: historian ERIC FONER explains — and provides helpful hints about updating a lecture on Lincoln. His book The Fiery Trial just won the Bancroft Prize and the Lincoln Prize, the two biggest awards in the history profession. (originally broadcast 12/1/10)
More than a million people teach at colleges and universities in the United States, but only one faces a Republican demand for his e-mails: William Cronon, who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. . . . What does it take to become the target of this kind of attack?
When Elizabeth Taylor died, 
When John Lennon sang “Imagine there’s no heaven” in 1971, rock critics called the song “utopian.” But 40 years later, researchers have found that religion is indeed disappearing in nine countries . . . .
Also: Haiti’s Aristide problem: Haitians voted for a new president on Sunday, just after former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide returned from seven years in exile. 
Also: Do you worry about Money? want more Money? worry about wanting more Money? Then you need to go to the workshop run by Robin and Randy Petraeus, Power Couple (TIM HAMELIN & JOCELYN TOWNE). JONAS OPPENHEIM talks about his hilarious play 
Plus: How a generation of women came to realize their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn’t reflect a personal inadequacy but rather a social and political injustice: 
In a striking act of interfaith solidarity, 30 Jewish Studies faculty from seven campuses of the University of California have called on the Orange County district attorney to drop criminal charges against 11 Muslim students.
Joseph Nye of Harvard’s Kennedy School 