The Ambassador May Wear Prada
Obama weighs appointing big names and fundraisers to patronage posts
Jay Newton-Small
Jay Newton-Small is the congressional correspondent for TIME. Born in New York, she spent time growing up in Asia, Australia and Europe following her vagabond United Nations parents. A graduate of Tufts University and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Jay previously covered politics for Bloomberg News. And, yes, despite the misleading name SHE is a she.
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Tsarnaev Snafus: Nearly 12 Years After 9/11, Boston Bombings Highlight Intelligence Holes
Senators say “stonewalling” and “stovepipes” blocked information sharing between law-enforcement and intelligence agencies
Boston’s Long Night of Terror: Tracking the Tsarnaevs
TIME’s on-the-ground account of what happened during the night in Boston
The Marathon Bombing: Gunfights, Blasts and a Manhunt Shut Down Boston
The two suspects were tracked to Watertown, a western suburb of Boston, where one was killed and one remains at large.
CSI Boston: Painstakingly Searching One of the Largest Crime Scenes in Recent History
Inch by inch, authorities look for evidence they hope will one day be used to forever put away those responsible for the Boston marathon bombings
Boston’s Wild, Unnerving, Topsy Turvy Day
Beantown is even more on edge two days after the bombing
The Day the Marathon Stopped: Tragedy in Boston’s Back Bay
Marathon Runner: “You knew right away it was a bomb. There was no doubt.”
Take Cover! It’s NoKo New Year
North Korea’s cult of personality explains the latest provocations from Pyongyang
Kerry’s Asian Crash Course
Amid North Korea’s threats of war, Secretary of State John Kerry is making his first trip to Asia, a place his is less familiar with than Europe or the Middle East.
Diplomacy in the Age of Twitter
For the second time in seven months, the U.S. embassy in Cairo got itself into Twitter trouble. The unusually combative Twitter feed on Tuesday criticized the Egyptian government’s imprisonment of comedian Bassem Youssef for …
White House Destruction Is Popular with Moviegoers; Why This is a Good and Bad Milestone
Olympus Has Fallen, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and White House Down are the first blockbusters since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks to violently attack Washington landmarks.
Sarah Palin: Loaded for Bear
The former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee reminds us that even without the reality shows, Fox contract and candidacy for, well, anything, that she’s still alive and kicking.
How Barack Obama Brought Turkey and Israel Back Together
Obama pushed for normalization of relations during his trip to Israel, capping years of work by U.S. diplomats to bring the two U.S. allies back together
