Robert Barro is a professor of economics at Harvard, and a commentator for The Wall Street Journal and Business Week. His critique of the Obama stimulus package provoked a sharp attack from Paul Krugman in The New York Times, which brought a spirited response from Barro. Basing his arguments on his empirical work, Barro takes issue with some common assumptions about the Great Depression, and how America got out of it.
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Colin Freeman is The Sunday Telegraph’s chief foreign correspondent. In August 2004 he was shot and assaulted by militia loyal to radical Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr in the city of Basra. In 2008, researching a story about piracy in Somalia, he was kidnapped by his own bodyguards. He and a Spanish photographer spent six weeks in a cave before being released unharmed. In 2005, following his return from Iraq, Freeman wrote The Curse of the Al Dulaimi Hotel: and Other Half-Truths from Baghdad.
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Jacob Weisberg is a political journalist, editor-in-chief of Slate Group, a division of The Washington Post Company, and a columnist for the Financial Times. The creator and author of the Bushisms series, Weisberg published The Bush Tragedy in 2008. Weisberg says that Bush suffers from serious immaturity, often cutting people down with name-calling. He compares George W to Shakespeare’s Prince Hal.
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Yosri Fouda was chief investigative reporter for Al Jazeera Arabic for many years. He remains the only person to have interviewed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh, masterminds of the 9/11 attacks. He is the co-author of Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Attack The World Has Ever Seen. As Al Jazeera’s London Bureau Chief, Fouda broke the story on the “martyrdom video” by 9/11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Ziad Jarrah. He is now based in Cairo and presents Last Word on ONTV. Fouda says the 9/11 Commission Report is a disgrace.
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