Iraq's elections have given Ayad Allawi a narrow victory. Michael Hastings on the steps he'll need to take if he's to have any hope of governing effectively.
Michael Hastings is a regular contributor to GQ and the author of I Lost My Love in Baghdad: A Modern War Story. He wrote The Runaway General for Rolling Stone.
Sara Allawi Sara Allawi was studying in London when she decided to board a plane for Iraq—and help her dad try to reclaim the prime minister's job. Michael Hastings conducts her first on-the-record interview.
As militants step up the violence ahead of Sunday’s elections, American officials predict a bright democratic future for Iraq. Don’t believe the hype. Michael Hastings on the ominous signs of a return to darker days.
Netroots wizard Joe Trippi is one of a group of American campaign consultants descending on Baghdad in hopes of shaping the March elections and the shape of politics to come.