Best of the Week: April 11-17, 2010

10. The Wonderful "Failure" of the Milwaukee Voucher Program -- Scott Sumner
9. Why Immigration Can't Save Social Security -- Andrew G. Biggs
8. The PIIGS Problem: Maginot Line Economics -- Marshall Auerback
7. Bye-Bye, Global Cooling Myth: Hottest March and Hottest Jan-Feb-Mar on Record -- Joseph Romm, Record Atlantic SSTs Continue; Very Active Hurricane Season Foreseen by CRU and TSR -- Jeff Masters, and Newsweek Gets Coal Terribly Wrong -- Daniel Stone
6. How Mathematics Might Have Caused the Financial Crisis -- Mark Thoma and The Non-Existent Hand -- Joseph Stiglitz
5. The Price of Assassination -- Robert Wright and Gary Hart
4. Hilda Solis: Labor's New Sheriff -- Esther Kaplan and Cui Bono? -- Kevin Drum
3. Why Cap-and-Trade Should (and Does) Have Appeal to Politicians -- Robert W. Hahn & Robert N. Stavins, The Complete Guide to Modern Day Climate Change -- Scott A. Mandia, and Come On! You Don't Give the Same Discount Rate to Insurance as Stock, and That Includes Global Warming Insurance! -- Richard H. Serlin
2. The Myth of a Kinder, Gentler War -- Michael A. Cohen and Army Researchers: Why the Kandahar Offensive Could Backfire -- Nathan Hodge
1. FDIC Rebuts Inaccurate Op-Ed and Final Financial Reform Push -- Christopher Papagianis
BONUS: Change We Can Believe In -- Steven Strogatz