The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.
- Senate panel backs Syria bombing, changing war momentum [TIME]
- Syria’s neighbors fear bioweapons threat [WashPost]
- Brutality of rebels poses a dilemma for the West [NYT]
- Q&A: Nancy Pelosi Talks About Syria [TIME]
- Senator Rand Paul: Why I’m Voting No on Syria [TIME]
- 59% of Americans oppose the U.S. launching missile strikes against Assad [WashPost-ABC poll]
- Prettier in print
- Cover: It’s Time to Pay College Athletes by Sean Gregory
- Obama’s Slippery Slope in Syria by Fareed Zakaria
- Syria: Inside the D.C. War by Michael Scherer and Alex Altman
- The Cult of Bashar Assad by Aryn Baker and Jay Newton-Small
- The World According to Vladimir Putin by Simon Shuster
- The Military’s Latest Rape-Case Mess by Mark Thompson
- “This account of a boat journey by a young couple from Myanmar offers a close-up look at a major issue facing the Asia-Pacific region today: the swelling tide of ships carrying refugees toward Australia. The trip is one of the longest, and most perilous, immigration journeys in the world…” [WSJ Part One, Part Two]