Previously, she was Executive Editor of The Nation, where she led the magazine’s award-winning investigative coverage. She has edited several bestselling books, including Jeremy Scahill’s Blackwater and Dirty Wars. Reed co-edited the New York Times bestseller Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare with Richard Kim. She is also the editor of the essay collections Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina, published on the storm’s one-year anniversary; and Nothing Sacred: Women Respond to Religious Fundamentalism and Terror published in 2003.