Newly arrived after spending the past few weeks in Iraq, Professor Mark Danner returns to give a first person account of the election process and what the post-election future means for this country.

Mark Danner has written on politics and foreign policy, focusing on war and conflict. He has covered Central America, Haiti, the Balkans, and Iraq, among many other stories. Danner is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War; The Road to Illegitimacy; and Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror, as well as forthcoming books on the former Yugoslavia and Haiti. Since 1990 Mark Danner has been a staff writer at The New Yorker and is a frequent contributor to New York Review of Books. Danner’s work has appeared inHarper’s, The New York Times, Aperture, and many other newspapers and magazines. He has co-written and helped produce two hour-long documentaries for the ABC News program Peter Jennings Reporting, and his work has received, among other honors, a National Magazine Award, two Overseas Press Awards, and an Emmy. In 1999 Danner was named a MacArthur Fellow.