* Check out the 2011 word cloud. Big ups!
* The top ten foreign policy stories you missed last year.
* The Post names the winners of the worst year in Washington.
* Pictures from foreign shores: Al Jazeera's top ten pictures of 2011.
* It was also the year of trolling.
* Slate's Longform Guide to the best war stories of 2011.
* Thomas E. Ricks picks his favorite of his defense stories of the year.
* TheAtlantic.com gives us the biggest ideas of 2011.
* And the biggest mysteries we're still thinking about.