The Best Covers of 2011

Our favorites from the past year. 

DECEMBER 31, 2011

Saudi Arabia was mostly immune to the unrest across the Middle East this year -- save sending troops to quell protests in Bahrain and paying off its own citizens with hundreds of billions of dollars -- but a clever protest movement by Saudi women to advocate for the right to drive was one exception. The headline for Cameron Abadi's hilarious piece on the ridiculous arguments against allowing them behind the wheel basically wrote itself.