Best of the Month: September 2009

We're adding a new feature to the "What to Read" series. If you want to be really lazy, you can ignore all the "Best of the Week" posts and only read the "Best of the Month" links. I wouldn't advise it; you'd miss a lot of very important articles. Consider this a reminder to read the best writing on the web each month. -- AWO10. How Health Care Reform Could Combat Crime -- Mark A. R. Kleiman9. The Anarchy of Success -- William Easterly8. Synthetic Biology and Evolution -- Michael Specter7. The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers -- David Cole6. Dear President Bush, -- Andrew Sullivan5. Kagame's Hidden War in the Congo -- Howard W. French4. The Afghanistan Impasse -- Ahmed Rashid3. The Deal of the Century -- Tom Junod2. Expect Little and You May Yet Be Disappointed -- Willem Buiter1. Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the Death Penalty -- David GrannBONUS: Fresh, Squeezed Trouble in South America -- Anthony W. Orlando