Best Articles of 2007

Stories and commentary that shaped the year's debates. Click on any item below for more information, or on a tab above to see another year's featured articles.

Article	Author(s)	Publication	Date
How to Defuse Iran?	Flynt Leverett	New York Times	December 11, 2007
Life Chances	Mark Schmitt	The American Prospect	December 1, 2007
Overdose	Shannon Brownlee	The Atlantic	December 1, 2007
Grasp the Promise of Annapolis	Daniel Levy	The Forward	November 29, 2007
The Centre-Ground's Shift to the Left	Michael Lind	Financial Times	November 27, 2007
It's More About Class and Less About Color	Gregory Rodriguez	Los Angeles Times	November 25, 2007
Undebated Challenges	Sherle R. Schwenninger	The Nation	November 19, 2007
Jobs, Justice and Democracy	Afshin Molavi	The Nation	November 19, 2007
Avoiding the Toughness Trap	William D. Hartung	The Nation	November 19, 2007
Continuing the Investment	Sara Mead	The American Prospect	November 19, 2007
Losing Afghanistan, One Civilian at a Time	Peter Bergen Katherine Tiedemann	Washington Post	November 18, 2007
Technology is Helping Firms Reach Unbanked	Rourke O'Brien Melissa Koide	American Banker	November 16, 2007
Nowhere -- and No Way -- to Hide	James Pinkerton	Newsday	November 13, 2007
Western Myths and Pakistani Realities	Anatol Lieven	International Herald Tribune	November 9, 2007
The Missing Innovators	Andrés Martinez	Los Angeles Times	November 7, 2007
In the Beginning	Gregory Rodriguez	Los Angeles Times	October 21, 2007
Engaging Hamas: The When and the How	Ghaith al-Omari	The Orlando Sentinel	October 16, 2007
The Wrong Way for Putin to Retain Influence	Anatol Lieven	Financial Times	October 10, 2007
A Quiz to Forge Americans	Gregory Rodriguez	Los Angeles Times	October 8, 2007
Forget Easy Money	Phillip Longman Ray Boshara	Washington Post	October 7, 2007
Five Myths About Sick Old Europe	Steven Hill	Washington Post	October 7, 2007
An Incomplete Report Card	Tomás Jiménez	Los Angeles Times	October 2, 2007
Best Care Everywhere	Phillip Longman	The Washington Monthly	October 1, 2007
The Imperial Fallacy	Michael Lind	The American Prospect	October 1, 2007
Public Investment Works	Sherle R. Schwenninger Bernard L. Schwartz	Democracy: A Journal of Ideas	September 30, 2007
The Shadow Army	Janine Wedel		September 30, 2007
General Accounting	Steve Coll	The New Yorker	September 24, 2007
Why Latinos Will Miss Bush	Gregory Rodriguez	Los Angeles Times	September 24, 2007
Why Bush Won't Attack Iran	Steven Clemons	Salon	September 19, 2007
Exporting Instability	William D. Hartung	The Nation	September 10, 2007
It's Pakistan's Choice	Rajan Menon	Los Angeles Times	September 6, 2007
The War on Poppies	Peter Bergen Sameer Lalwani	Los Angeles Times	September 2, 2007
Share the Credit	Michael Lind	The American Prospect	September 1, 2007
Defense Vision MIA?	William D. Hartung	Washington Times	August 30, 2007
Drucker's Lessons for China	Rick Wartzman	BusinessWeek	August 17, 2007
Government's Attention Span Needs Repair	James Pinkerton	Newsday	August 7, 2007
Occupational Hazard	Eliza Griswold	The New Republic	August 6, 2007
Rising Gulf	Afshin Molavi	Newsweek International	August 6, 2007
The Thirty-Year Itch	Mark Schmitt	The American Prospect	July 31, 2007
George Bush I	Ted Widmer	The New York Times Magazine	July 22, 2007