Wonkblog’s top 20 most-read posts of 2011

We’ve been posting a lot of year-end round-ups lately. This one, however, is your year-end round-up. These were the 20 highest trafficked posts on Wonkblog in 2011. Unemployment, budget battles, GOP brinksmanship, and the economics of clean-energy were all big attention-grabbers. But looking at the list, it’s also clear we need to write more about food.
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1) “Getting Ready for a Wave of Coal Plant Shutdowns” (Aug. 19)

2) “Obama’s and Bush’s effects on the deficit in one graph” (July 25)

3) “Republicans have won. But can they stop there?” (July 25)

4) “No, Congress did not declare pizza a vegetable” (Nov. 20)

5) “What Planned Parenthood actually does” (April 6)

6) “Solar is getting cheaper, but how far can it go?” (Nov. 7)

7) “Bin Laden’s war against the US economy” (May 3)

8) “The real unemployment rate is 11 percent” (Dec. 12)

9) “Who are the 99 percent?” (Aug. 25)

10) “The ten firms that rule the world” (Nov. 7)

11) “Are carrots orange for political reasons?” (Sept. 9)

12) “Could this time have been different?” (Oct 8)

13) “The GOP’s dual-trigger nightmare” (Nov. 23)

14) “The top 16 earthquake tweets” (Aug. 23)

15) “2011 is not 1995” (April 6)

16) “Five myths about the Solyndra collapse” (Sept. 14)

17) “Unions aren’t to blame for Wisconsin’s budget” (Feb. 18)

18) “How Yelp is killing chain restaurants” (Oct. 3)

19) “A deal that found the lowest common denominator” (July 11)

20) “Tax rates and job creation in one graph” (June 28)