Best of the Week: August 1-7, 2010
10. Would Small Business Be Hurt by Obama's Tax Plan? -- Edmund L. Andrews and What's Holding Small Business Back? -- National Federation of Independent Business
9. Massachusetts Mandates at Work -- Austin Frakt
8. Behind the Columbia/Venezuela Tension -- Conn Hallinan
7. Like New Deal, Stimulus Should Create Jobs Directly -- Robert J. Shiller and The Real Reason Banks Aren't Lending -- Marshall Auerback
6. Extreme Function: Why Our Brains Respond So Intensely to Exaggerated Characteristics -- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran & Diane Rogers-Ramachandran
5. Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq -- Tom Engelhardt and 2010 Arabic Public Opinion Poll -- Shibley Telhami
4. Unpacking Claims on the Auto Bailout -- e21
3. Enrichment Still the Key to Nuclear Diplomacy with Iran -- Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett
2. Book Notes: Ramos' "A Country for All" -- Bryce Covert and Fact-Checking the Claims About "Anchor Babies" and Whether Illegal Immigrants "Drop and Leave" -- PolitiFact
1. Filibusters and Arcane Obstructions in the Senate -- George Packer
BONUS: Topic of Cancer -- Christopher Hitchens