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Five years after suing <em>Newsweek,</em> Lynn Povich became the magazine's first female senior editor. Povich writes that her then-colleague Oz Elliott (right) was one of the first to say, "God, weren't we awful?"

Tina Brown's Must Reads: The Modern Woman

The Daily Beast and Newsweek editor explores the changing role of women with recommendations that cover a groundbreaking gender discrimination lawsuit against Newsweek, a stay-at-home wife's rise through the professional ranks and the meaning behind a mother's profile picture.

British soldier, adventurer and author Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence Of Arabia, joined the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I and was instrumental in the conquest of Palestine. The photo was taken in 1918.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Heroes, Then And Now

The Daily Beast editor joins Steve Inskeep to recommend some good recent reading. Her focus this month: heroism, as embodied by three public figures.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: On Choice And Control

Daily Beast editor Tina Brown joins Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep to recommend some of the best things she has read lately. This month, she focuses on stories of change, choice and the limits of control.

In a French cemetery in 1939, two members of the British Expeditionary Force observe the traditional two-minute silence on Nov. 11 -- Armistice Day. Post-World War I Britain is the focus of Juliet Nicolson's <em>The Great Silence</em>, one of Tina Brown's most recent recommended reads.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Stories Of Survival

The Daily Beast editor chats with Renee Montagne about the best things she's been reading lately. Brown's focus this month: surviving and thriving in adversity, from the challenges of rescuing a major corporation to the difficulties of readjusting to life after wartime.

Longtime CIA agent and counterintelligence agent Jeanne Vertefeuille, pictured at center, was instrumental in uncovering undercover agents, or moles, within the organization in the 1980s and '90s.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Hidden Lives

The Newsweek editor returns with a list of new reads about people with surprising lives — a CIA investigator, a successful businesswoman who started life as a child soldier, and a private-equity pioneer whose domineering personality drove his loved ones away.

According to Mark Halperin's article, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has plenty of reasons to stick around despite her party's loss in Congress.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: Women And Power

Daily Beast Editor Tina Brown chats with Steve Inskeep about the best things she has been reading lately. This time, her recommendations focus on women and power, both those with it and those without it.

Christine Lagarde is the first woman to hold the position of director of the IMF.

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Women Of The World

The Newsweek editor looks at how women helped bring about peace in Liberia; how they're changing the state of marriage throughout Asia; and the rise of Christine Lagarde to the top of that notoriously male-dominated institution, the International Monetary Fund.

<em></em> In response to presidential candidate Herman Cain's <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/11/14/142319607/herman-cain-has-major-oops-moment-on-libya">recent "oops" moment</a>, <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>'s Peggy Noonan writes, "To know little and to be proud of knowing little is disrespectful of the democratic process, and of the moment we're in."

Tina Brown's Must-Reads: The Columnist's Voice

Daily Beast and Newsweek editor Tina Brown explores the work of newspaper columnists through readings that propose a new way of looking at the 2012 election and the scandal at Penn State.

Sen. Sherrod Brown On China's Trade Policies

Rachel Martin talks to Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown about some Democrats supporting the Trump administration's decision to launch an investigation into China's intellectual property and trade practices.

Pod Corner: Brown v. Board of Education

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