Best of the Week: June 6-12, 2010

10. The Littlest Schoolhouse -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
9. Private Contractors and Covert Wars in Latin America -- Cyril Mychalejko
8. Iran's Green Movement: One Year Later -- Juan Cole and Iran Sanctions: Not Just Useless But Counterproductive -- Richard Dreyfuss
7. What If Hamas Had Attacked Humanitarian Ships in International Waters? -- Ed Kinane, IDF Beatings, Abuse, Doctored Evidence Emerge -- Mel Frykberg, and The Method in Israel's Madness -- Pepe Escobar
6. What Happens When Democrats Are "Fighting Wall Street with One Hand, Unions with the Other," While Republicans Are Fighting Unions with Two Hands? -- Andrew Gelman & Matthew Yglesias
5. A Failure of Economic and Environmental Regulation -- James Surowiecki and From the Oil Spill to the Financial Crisis, Why We Don't Plan for the Worst -- Richard A. Posner
4. "The Price That We Pay": Undocumented Immigrants and Taxation -- Yana Kunichoff
3. David Brooks and the Power of Magical Thinking at the NYT -- Dean Baker and The United Kingdom Draws the Wrong Lessons from Canada -- Marshall Auerback
2. Mark to Market and the Eurozone Crisis -- e21
1. Waking Up From the American Dream -- Joe Nocera
BONUS: The Governor and the Condemned Man -- Dick Meister