Best of the Week: December 27, 2009 - January 2, 2010

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10. Getting Away with Torture -- David Cole
9. The Great Leap -- Christopher Hayes
8. John Mackey and Whole Foods -- Nick Paumgarten
7. The Battle for Tora Bora -- Peter Bergen
6. Why the Health Care Bill Is Worth Passing -- James Surowiecki and What Health Care Reform Will Mean for You -- Mary Carmichael
5. Threats to Yemen Prove America Hasn't Learned the Lesson of History -- Patrick Cockburn and The Next Afghanistan? -- Bay Fang
4. "Cadillac Tax" Isn't a Tax: It's a Plan to Finance Health Care Reform -- Jonathan Gruber and In Richmond, Va., Health Cuts with Little Effect on Care -- David Leonhardt
3. Cause and Effect in the "Terror War" -- Glenn Greenwald and Top Republican Myths about the Crotch Bomber Affair -- Juan Cole
2.  The Silent Cleric Who Holds the Key to Iran's Future -- Robert Fisk
1. Lessons Learned But Not Applied -- Simon Johnson and Avoiding a Japanese Decade -- New York Times
BONUS: Night -- Tony Judt