Extra Credit Options
| Final | Description |
| Final A | "I Have A Dream" by Thomas Friedman | Reflections on Politics and Elian Gonzalez |
| Final B | "The Magic Mountain" by Paul Krugman | Globalization and the World Economic Forum at Davos |
| Final C | "The Moral Sense in Estate Tax Repeal" by Alan Wolfe | The case for repealing estate taxes |
| Final E | "Jubilee 2000: Paying Our Debts" by Robert W Edgar | Is there wisdom inforgiving some of the debt burden of developing nations? |
| Final F | "Not Happening" by Thomas Friedman | Did the experiment in multi-ethnic Bosnia fail? |
| Final G | "Failures of the 20th Century: See under IMF" by Gregory Palast | Are strategies for global economic growth undermining those countries they are supposed to be helping? |
| Final H | "Investing in Children" by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott | Former Prime Minister Tony Blair's third path between capitalism and socialism |
| Final K | "Ask Not What . . ." by Thomas Friedman | The generation gap between the "Greatest Generation" and others. Should they be emulated? |
| Final L | "Crime in the Suites" by William Greider | The Demise of Enron |
| Final M | "The Unilateralist: A Conversation with Paul Wolfowitz" by James Fallows | Realpolitik and unilateral military intervention |
| Final N | "Zero Sum Game Only Has Losers" by Naomi Chazan | The dilemma of the ordinary Israeli citizen |
| Final O | "The Cycles of Financial Scandals" by Kevin Phillips | The effects of financialization on the American economy |
| Final P | "The Latest Kissinger Outrage" by Christopher Hitchens | What should the legacy of Henry Kissinger be? |
| Final Q | "Thinking About Iraq (3)" by Thomas Friedman | Should the US have brokered a deal for Saddam Hussein's exile? |
| Final R | "Mr. Bush's Liberal Problem" by Nicholas Kristof | Are political leaders and movement's hampered by their idealism? |
| Final T | "Stating the Obvious" by Paul Krugman | "Starving the Beast" through tax cuts |
| Final U | "Promoting the General Welfare" by Molly Ivins | Tax Fairness in the US |
| Final W | "Democracy, Not Off the Shelf" by William Raspberry | Is democracy a one-size-fits-all commodity? |
| Final X | "Debtor Nation" by William Greider | Does the debt carried by the US suggest there should be a new general tarifon imports? |
| Final Y | "The Invisible Hand Holds the Remote" by Robert Scheer | American moralism and hypocrisy when it comes to TV viewing habits. |
| Final Z | "Where Have You Gone, Joe Dimaggio" by Thomas Friedman | Has the United States Lost its Competitive Edge? |
| Final AA | "Tortured Reasoning" by Thomas Sowell | Should the United States categorically ban torture? |
| Final AB | "The End of the Internet?" by Jeff Chester | Net Neutrality and Telecommunications Discrimination |
| Final AC | "As Online Viewing Booms, The Amateurs Give Way to Big Media" by Scott Kirsner | Will Major Media outlets dominate online viewing? |
| Final AD | "Reverse Exodus: High Tech Indian Immigrants Returning Home" by Mira Kamdar | Is a reverse brain drain hurting the US's ability to compete? |
| Final AE | "Treating Money as Free Speech" by Nolan Bowie | Should all American citizens possess a trademark on all their personal information? |
| Final AF | "The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs" by Ben Stein | Did Goldman Sachs act inappropriately on the cusp of the economic downturn in 2008? |
| Final AG | "The Democratic Recession" by Thomas Friedman | The connection between petroleum wealth and democratic principles in the Midde East and beyond. |
| Final AH | "They Get It" by Timothy Egan | Do relatively unsophisticated readers understand how manipulative media is? |
| Final AI | "While Detroit Slept" by Thomas Friedman | Will car makers follow the business model of computer manufacturers? |
| Final AJ | "Put Aside Logic" by Maureen Dowd | Americans should be willing to pay for online news content or they will source control and quality |
| Final AK | "Human Nature Today" by David Brooks | Evolutionary Psychology and its potential impact on policy. |
| Final AL | "An Innovation Agenda" by David Brooks | Ideas for how to kickstart innovation in the US. |
| Final AM | "The Pink Floyd Night School" by Mark Edmundson | On taking time off when you're young before setting off on your life's ambitions. |
| Final AN | "The Moral Naturalists" by David Brooks | Is morality hardwired in humans? |
| Final AO | "Unjust Spoils" by Robert Reich | Economic injustice in the United States |
| Final AP | "The Big Disconnect" by David Brooks | The public mood vis-a-vis the economic cycle. |
| Final AQ | The Ways of Silencing" by Jason Stanley | The insidious strategy that right wing media uses to poison the information well. |
| Final AR | "Intellectuals and Politics" by Gary Gutting | What kind of mental qualities should our political leaders have? |
| Final AS | "Death of a Fairy Tale" by Paul Krugman | Confidence is a concept that is oversold in talking about the health of an economy |
| Final AT | "Robots and Robber Barons" by Paul Krugman | Does the capitalist oligarchy need a middle class anymore? |
| Final AU | "Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream" by Joseph Stiglitz | The impediment of student loans in achieving education. |
| Final AV | "The Secular Society" by David Brooks | Is contemporary life more morally demanding? |
| Final AW | "Can't We Do Better?" by Thomas Friedman | Motivation and education |
| Final AX | "The Problem with Confidence" by David Brooks | Confidence and the Gender Gap — can too much confidence be a problem? |