Best of the Week: March 7-13, 2010
Yay, we are finally up-to-date on our "Best of the Week" series! Thank you for your patience. We will now return to posting original commentary more frequently...hopefully. -- AWO
10. Popular but Ineffective: Repealing Insurers' Antitrust Exemption -- Austin Frakt & Ian Crosby
9. Special Interest -- James Surowiecki and Paul Ryan's Plan to Tax You More -- Kevin Drum
8. Marjah, the City That Never Was -- Gareth Porter and Sorry, Rove, Bush Did Lie About Iraq -- Robert Parry
7. The Case Against Biofuels: Probing Ethanol's Hidden Costs -- C. Ford Runge
6. Medicine in the Dark -- Michael Hochman & Danny McCormick
5. CIA Drone Attacks Produce America's Own Unlawful Combatants -- Gary Solis
4. Noam Chomsky: Iran Pursuing Nuclear Weapons Out of Fear -- Matthew W. Hutchins
3. One Year into Bull Market, Economists Divided Over Future -- E. S. Browning and My Life in Finance -- Eugene F. Fama
2. Rethinking Crime--Again -- John J. DiIulio, Jr.
1. The Arab Tomorrow -- David B. Ottaway, Once Again, a Nation Walks Through Fire to Give the West Its "Democracy" -- Robert Fisk, The Oil Curse -- Christopher Dickey, The Political Resource Curse -- Fernanda Brollo, Tommaso Nannicini, Roberto Perotti, & Guido Tabellini, and The Limits to Globalization -- Daron Acemoglu & Pierre Yared
BONUS: Finding Your Roots -- Steven Strogatz