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Love and Loss in Baghdad

Michael Hastings, Newsweek’s Baghdad correspondent, explains how covering the war in Iraq came at a huge personal cost. He writes about love and loss in wartime in his new memoir, I Lost My Love in Baghdad.

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The American Candy Bombers

In 1948, people in West Berlin were suffering and hungry when American and British pilots airlifted in billions of pounds of food and supplies. Find out how that affected West Berliners’ attitudes about democracy in the years immediately following World War II. Andrei Cherny’s new book is The Candy Bombers.

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Jasper Johns: Gray

The color gray has been an important theme in Jasper Johns’s work throughout his career, from the mid-1950s to the present. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibit, "Jasper Johns: Gray," through May 4. Ian Alteveer is exhibitions assistant.

Slideshow of images from “Jasper Johns: Gray”

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Please Explain: DNA

DNA testing has been in the news lately, thanks to the raid on the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas where authorities don’t know which children belong to which parents. We find out what DNA is, how it defines us, and how DNA testing works. Dr. Timothy Bestor is Professor of Genetics and Development at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Brian McCabe is Assistant Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia.

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