May 2, 2013
Gas cost $3.53 a gallon in the spring of 2013, and the Dow Jones stood at 16,577 — and the White House was publicly signaling that Syria had likely used chemical weapons, marking a significant escalation in how the U.S. was framing the ongoing civil war there. On the cultural front, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis were dominating radio with "Thrift Shop," while Dan Brown's "Inferno" was sitting at the top of the New York Times fiction bestseller list. The Miami Heat won the NBA championship that year by defeating the San Antonio Spurs, and earlier in the spring, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina had been elected the 266th pope, taking the name Francis and becoming the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere.
On the cover
Magazine Covers — May 2, 2013
NY Times Headlines — Week of May 2, 2013
Egypt’S Birthrate Rises As Population Control Policies Vanish
Corporations Find A Friend In The Supreme Court
White House Holds Firm On Cautious Path In Syria Crisis
Sexual Assaults In Military Raise Alarm In Washington
U.S. Blames China’S Military Directly For Cyberattacks
As Midterms Loom, Democrats Worry About Health Law
World Events — May 2013
Time Person of the Year — 2013
On the radio
Billboard Charts — May 2, 2013
Grammy Awards
On the bookshelf
On the television
Nielsen Top 10 — 2012–13 Season
Emmy Winners — 2013
At the movies
Box Office & Oscar Winners — May 2, 2013
Ebert 4-Star Films — May 2, 2013
On the field
Sports Champions — May 2, 2013
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