Electronic Pen

Barbara Crossette Neda Agha-Soltan, shot dead Saturday, has become a tragic icon of the new Iran--and an emblem of how much women have lost in the thirty years of the Islamic Republic.

• Negar Azimi: The Idea of Iran

Robert Dreyfuss Evidence accumulates on Iran's fraudulent vote, as the nation awaits the next explosion--the certification of the presidential election.

John Nichols By allowing a local district to sidestep a federal election review, the Supreme Court has weakened the Voting Rights Act.

Melissa Harris-Lacewell We can assert the value of fathers and still create structures that more fully support families of all kinds.

William Greider What's missing in the president's call for reform are concrete rules that address a dysfunctional banking system.

Sasha Abramsky Economic necessity and shifting mores are changing the nation's approach to incarceration.

• Robert Perkinson: The Prison Dilemma

Robert Dreyfuss As tens of thousands of protesters are met with tear gas, gunfire and truncheons, Obama's rhetoric sharpens, and the world bears witness to a reformist revolt.

• Nation Editors: Turmoil in Tehran

Robert Dreyfuss Iran's Supreme Leader warns against further protests. But for reformists braced for more confrontations, there's no backing down.

• Nation Editors: Turmoil in Tehran

Bernard Avishai A shrewd history of why US presidents have failed to make Israel accept a plan for regional peace.

Jessica Valenti It might sound milder, and appear hipper, but it traffics in the same old sexism.

Dean Starkman Long before most in the business press rose to the challenge, Gretchen Morgenson was reporting that the financial sector had gone rogue.