Andrew Sullivan's blog

The projects that have worked for me - Text as Image project from the first year, the Editorial Illustration project from year two and the Sequential Narrative for which I did an A-to-Z children’s book, have the common factor being they are all broken down into smaller pieces

So a possibility would be to do an editorial project based on regular column
I read Sullivan's blog 'The Daily Dish' at http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
on a daily basis, and sharp take on current affairs allows the opportunity to substantive editorial illustration