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Week of August 1, 2011

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: Debt Ceiling

HNN Poll: What Do You Think of the Deal to Raise the Debt Ceiling?

Iwan Morgan: Live Blogging the Debt Crisis

News at Home

Obama at 50 Should Have More Faith in America
Gil Troy

Debt Ceiling: A Minority Victory Without Precedent?
Iwan Morgan

The Debt Deal is "Bad for Everyone": Jim Livingston on the Latest Developments
David A. Walsh

What Would Alexander Hamilton Have Done in the Debt Crisis? Financial Historian Richard Sylla on the Debt Ceiling
David A. Walsh

Remember in the Debt Limit Crisis, the Real "Job Creators" are Consumers
James Livingston

Rick Perry's Vice-Presidential Mistake
Joel K. Goldstein

News Abroad

Norway's Terrorism in Context
Daniel Pipes

Famine Strikes Again in Africa. America Needs to Respond
William Lambers

Playing Ball With the Pentagon
Andrew J. Bacevich

Historians & History

Barry Landau Isn't an Historian, He's an Antiquarian—So Let's Stop Calling Him One
Samuel J. Redman

Books

Review of Ronald A. Wolk's Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do About It
Luther Spoehr

Review of Jack Ross's Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism
Thomas Kolsky