Editorials May 2, 2013
Investigators continue to fill in the blanks, but one large question continues to hang over the terror attack during the Boston Marathon on April 15: Why?
Commentary / World May 1, 2013
The paradox of the Boston bombing
by Nina L. Khrushcheva
Essentially the Boston bombers' stories are not so different from those of America's home-grown "lone wolves" — typically white and equally disenchanted.
Asia Pacific / Politics Apr 30, 2013
The most popular politician in Pakistan's largest party won't be staging any rallies or participating in debates as May's historic national election nears. The reason: She's dead. Yet Benazir Bhutto, assassinated more than five years ago, is still the standard bearer of the Pakistan People's Party ...
World Apr 29, 2013
Perceptions of brothers don't fit neatly into pre-existing box
by Krissah Thompson and Michelle Boorstein
Chechen? American? Immigrant? Citizen? Muslim? Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev may be all of the above, but how Americans attempt to come to grips with the attacks allegedly perpetrated by the brothers has much to do with how Americans identify them. The ...
Commentary / World | THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK Apr 29, 2013
Photos of carnage would check war sentiment
by Hiroaki Sato
Would most Americans remain indifferent to the wars their government wages in far-off lands if their media broadcast videos each day of the shattered bodies?
World Apr 25, 2013
The CIA pushed to have one of the suspected Boston bombers placed on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list more than a year before the attacks, U.S. officials say.
Commentary / World Apr 25, 2013
Why people stay scared after tragedies
by Cass Sunstein
After a tragedy such as the one last week in Boston, people develop a heightened sense of risk. Often that response is far greater than reality warrants.
World Apr 22, 2013
How the Boston bombing investigation unfolded
by Marc Fisher
Within hours of the Boston Marathon bombing, investigators were already overwhelmed. Bloody clothing, bags, shoes and other evidence from victims and witnesses was piling up. Videos and still images, thousands of them, were pouring in by email and Twitter. Quickly, the authorities secured a warehouse ...
World Apr 22, 2013
Boston attack exposes limitations of post-9/11 security buildup
by Greg Miller and Scott Wilson
The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks led to a massive buildup of security to make the country safe. Subsequent plots, including attempts to conceal bombs in shoes and underwear, prompted hasty additions to that edifice, as officials sought to fill in cracks that terrorists might ...
Commentary / World Apr 22, 2013
Attack will prove urban resiliency
by Edward Glaeser
Cities exist to connect humanity and to enable us to work collaboratively. Those connections only strengthen when we are attacked as the Boston Marathon was.
World / Crime & Legal Apr 20, 2013
A massive manhunt is launched in the Boston suburbs after one suspect in the deadly marathon bombings is killed in a confrontation with police and the second is identified but remains at-large.
World Apr 19, 2013
FBI releases video images of Boston bombing suspects, appeals for public's help
The FBI released video and photos Thursday of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings who were seen carrying backpacks and walking casually among spectators shortly before the blasts. Officials hope that publicizing the images, culled from a trove of digital information, will help them ...