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The World Next Week: Will the Super Committee Strike a Deal?

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  • James M. LindsayCFR Expert
    Mary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
Members of the U.S. Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the super committee. (Jonathan Ernst/courtesy Reuters)
Members of the U.S. Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, otherwise known as the super committee. (Jonathan Ernst/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I sat down to discuss the debt reduction super committee, the Egyptian parliamentary elections, and the anniversary of the Nuremburg Trials.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20111117_TWN…]

The highlights:

The Washington Post reports that 50 percent of Americans are not even aware that a debt reduction super committee exists, and the Christian Science Monitor profiles the committee’s twelve members. The New York Times describes the different Egyptian political groups vying for power, and Foreign Policy asks whether Egyptian liberals even have a chance at winning. The BBC announces that Hosni Mubarak’s trial has been postponed, and Reuters covers Zine Ben Ali’s conviction in Tunisia for drugs and weapons trafficking.