In the Land of the Possible
Evan Osnos profiles the American Ambassador to the U.N. How has her human-rights interventionism affected Obama’s decisions?
Samantha Power had been caricatured as "the Ivy League Joan of Arc." As a speaker, "she was a performer of the first order—fingers and arms always flashing, a voice going from a whisper to a shout." But she quietly asked a TV host to remove an interview about Israel from the Web.