Best of the Week: December 13-19, 2009

10. When Will the Obama Administration Try Actually Engaging Iran? -- Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett

9.  Robert P. George, the Conservative-Christian Big Thinker -- David D. Kirkpatrick

8. How Bad Biology Killed the Economy -- Frans de Waal

7. Cooperation Gets Shanghaied -- Alexander Cooley and China Wins Struggle for Pipelinestan -- Juan Cole

6. Veil Thine Eyes -- Nicholas Stephanopoulos

5. Eikenberry Assures Afghans U.S. Will Stay Beyond 2011 -- Thomas L. Day and U.S. Silent about Taliban Guarantee Offer on al-Qaeda -- Gareth Porter

4. The Inertia Option -- Roger Cohen and A Lesson on Nonviolence for Obama -- Eric Stoner

3. Motivation for Jihad -- Charles V. Peña and Insurgent Infiltrators Terrorise Kabul's Ruling Class -- Miles Amoore

2. China's 863 Program, a Crash Program for Clean Energy -- Evan Osnos

1. Health-Reform Legislation Would Accomplish More Than Critics Admit -- Henry J. Aaron and The Congressional Budget Office Scores the Amended Senate Bill -- Ezra Klein and The 150,000-Life Health-Care Plan -- Ezra Klein

BONUS: A Facebook Christmas Love Story -- Walter Kirn