Best of the Week: March 14-20, 2010

10. Why Fritz Hollings Is Wrong About Economists -- David K. Levine
9. Washout for the Anbar Awakening -- Marc Lynch and Followers of Sadr Emerge Stronger After Iraq Elections -- Anthony Shadid
8. Unhappy Yemen -- Tariq Ali
7. People Vote for Competence Not Policy -- Adrian Hamilton, What Failure Would Cost the Democrats -- Norman Ornstein & Thomas Mann, McConnell Strategy Shuns Bipartisanship -- Carl Hulse & Adam Nagourney, and What Happened in Massachusetts -- Stephen Asolabehere & Charles Stewart III
6. Global Cooling Bites the Dust: Hottest January Followed by Second Hottest February. Now March Is Busting Out. -- Joseph Romm, Global Boiling: Freak Storms on Every Continent -- Joseph Romm, and NASA: "It Is Nearly Certain That a New Record 12-Month Global Temperature Will Be Set in 2010" -- Joseph Romm
5. Lehman's Demise, Dissected -- William D. Cohan, Curbing Risk on Wall Street -- Oliver Hart & Luigi Zingales, How Bank Credit-Market Funding Helped Spread the Global Crisis -- Claudio Raddatz, and How Chris Dodd's FinReg Proposal Solves the Problem of Information, but Not of Regulators -- Ezra Klein
4. Is the U.S. "Offer" to Iran on Medical Isotopes a Pretext for More Coercive Action? -- Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett and Rafsanjani Makes His Move -- Geneive Abdo
3. Is the Bible More Violent Than the Quran? -- Barbara Bradley Hagerty and Lenten Thoughts -- Gary Wills
2. Health Reform: What Happens When? -- Austin Frakt and A Viewer's Guide to This Weekend -- Sarah Binder
1. As Things Get Worse in Pakistan, the Optimism Continues to Soar -- Robert Fisk, Pakistan to America: What Have You Done for Us Lately? -- Arif Rafiq, Into the Terrifying World of Pakistan's "Disappeared" -- Robert Fisk, and Don't Forget India -- Nikolas K. Gvosdev
BONUS: Square Dancing -- Steven Strogatz and Financial Imagineering -- Steven E. Landsburg