Best of the Month: December 2009

10. Listening to Afghanistan -- Ann Friedman
9. Why Federal Regulators Closed Washington Mutual -- Kirsten Grind
8. Somalia Is Greatest Victim of President Bush's War on Terror -- Martin Fletcher
7. The Silent Cleric Who Holds the Key to Iran's Future -- Robert Fisk
6. Myth vs. Reality on the Copenhagen Climate Summit -- Andrew Light, Rebecca Lefton, & Daniel J. Weiss
5. 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
4. Coverage and Costs -- Paul Krugman and The Senate Bill Saves Families Money -- Jonathan Cohn and Improve the Bill, Yes. Kill the Bill, No. -- Jonathan Cohn
3. How the Senate Bill Would Contain the Cost of Health Care -- Atul Gawande
2. Lessons Learned But Not Applied -- Simon Johnson and Avoiding a Japanese Decade -- New York Times
1. Something from Nothing -- Nir Rosen and Pentagon's War Pitch Belied by Taliban-Qaeda Conflict -- Gareth Porter and A Plan in Need of Clarity -- Sen. Jim Webb and Obama's Surge: Has the President Been Misled by the Iraq Analogy? -- Juan Cole
BONUS: Banks Too Big? Government Has Failed To Do Its Job -- Anthony W. Orlando and Nuclear Armament: Iran Acting Like a Cornered Animal -- Anthony W. Orlando