Daily Briefing - Wednesday, November 10, 2010

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Jacob Heilbrunn is a Senior Editor at the National Interest, and the author of the newly released, They Knew They Were Right: the Rise of the Neocons. He was an editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times and senior editor at The New Republic, and a Japan Society Fellow. His articles have been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and the Washington Monthly.

Stephan A. Schwartz is the Senior Fellow at the Samueli Institute and a Research Associate of Cognitive Sciences at the Laboratories for Fundamental Research. He is also the editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net, where he identifies and analyses trends that are affecting the future. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Smithsonian, American Heritage, American History, OMNI, and Harpers. His current article on the Huffington Post is “Willful Ignorance”.

Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a progressive economic think-tank based in Washington DC. His latest book is Taking Economics Seriously and he also wrote Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, and in 1999, Social Security: The Phony Crisis. His blog, Beat the Press, elaborates critical issues in American media.