COVER
Bibi's Choice (World)
Will He Make War? Can He Make Peace?
Behind the Cover
Marco Grob photographs Benjamin Netanyahu
FEATURES
Bring Our Son Home (Nation)
The parents of America's only missing soldier in Afghanistan almost got him back from the Taliban. What went wrong?
America's Last Living POW
Christopher Morris traveled to Hailey, Idaho, to photograph Bob and Jani Bergdahl for TIME
Bubble on the Potomac (Society)
The new affluence flooding the nation's capital sets it a world apart from the country it governs
THE CULTURE
Sleepers, Superheroes and Meryl Streep Too (Summer Preview)
The cinema short list
The Connections (Summer Preview)
The season's literary links
Television (Summer Preview)
What's the Frequency? (Summer Preview)
Sounds for every seasonal wavelength
10 Questions for Colin Powell (10 Questions)
Four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell on leadership, war and public parking
American Beauties (Summer Preview)
The most exciting art shows from coast to coast
My Mitt Moment (The Awesome Column)
In which I apologize for being a sexually immature jerk (in high school)
LETTERS
Inbox (Inbox)
COMMENTARY
Time to Say Danke (Worldview)
Thrifty Germans have been more benevolent to Greece than you think
The Resource Miracle (Viewpoint)
The rock star and activist explains why Africa could be this century's success story
The $2 Billion Boo-Boo (The Curious Capitalist)
JPMorgan's derivatives debacle is reason enough to toughen the Volcker rule
Why Tehran Might Be Ready to Talk (In the Arena)
Two years of persistent U.S.-led diplomacy may finally be getting to the powers in Iran
BRIEFING
Liar, Liar (Business)
How faux credentials felled Yahoo!'s CEO, among others