7. Cooperation Gets Shanghaied — Alexander Cooley and China Wins Struggle for Pipelinestan — Juan Cole
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
3. Motivation for Jihad — Charles V. Peña and Insurgent Infiltrators Terrorise Kabul’s Ruling Class — Miles Amoore
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