January 6, 2010 by Anthony W. Orlando

Best of the Week: December 13-19, 2009

10. When Will the Obama Administration Try Actually Engaging Iran? — Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett

9. Robert P. George, the Conservative-Christian Big Thinker — David D. Kirkpatrick

8. How Bad Biology Killed the Economy — Frans de Waal

7. Cooperation Gets Shanghaied — Alexander Cooley and China Wins Struggle for Pipelinestan — Juan Cole

6. Veil Thine Eyes — Nicholas Stephanopoulos

5. Eikenberry Assures Afghans U.S. Will Stay Beyond 2011 — Thomas L. Day and U.S. Silent about Taliban Guarantee Offer on al-Qaeda — Gareth Porter

4. The Inertia Option — Roger Cohen and A Lesson on Nonviolence for Obama — Eric Stoner

3. Motivation for Jihad — Charles V. Peña and Insurgent Infiltrators Terrorise Kabul’s Ruling Class — Miles Amoore

2. China’s 863 Program, a Crash Program for Clean Energy — Evan Osnos

1. Health-Reform Legislation Would Accomplish More Than Critics Admit — Henry J. Aaron and The Congressional Budget Office Scores the Amended Senate Bill — Ezra Klein and The 150,000-Life Health-Care Plan — Ezra Klein

BONUS: A Facebook Christmas Love Story — Walter Kirn