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Carrie Sheffield

Carrie Sheffield is Boston Correspondent for The Washington Times. A master of public policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, Carrie was a reporter for Politico.com, The Hill and the Deseret Morning News.

Carrie's writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Jerusalem Post, American Spectator and Quill magazine. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University and completed a Fulbright fellowship in Berlin.

Most Recent Stories

Spitzer declines to blame politics for downfall

Friday, Nov. 13, 2009

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York who resigned after admitting to patronizing prostitutes, told a crowd at Harvard University that his actions were wrong and that any revenge motives on the part of investigators who uncovered the scandal are immaterial.

Thousands bid Kennedy farewell

Senator remembered as 'champion' working for change

Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009

BOSTON -- Admirers of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy thronged the streets of his hometown Saturday, ignoring a pelting rain to bid farewell to the man who had risen from a troubled past to become the undisputed champion of the American liberal movement.

Obama loses trust of Israel backers

Majority see president as 'pro-Palestinian'

Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009

JERUSALEM -- President Obama's harsh criticism of West Bank settlements during his heavily publicized June speech to the Arab world in Cairo continues to reverberate here, undercutting his popularity and heightening tensions with some pro-Israel advocates in the United States.

Tiny nation, global clout

Resources open doors to diplomacy for Qatar

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

DOHA -- An oil-rich nation in the Persian Gulf, Qatar continues leveraging its vast natural resources and media empire to gain regional clout that far outweighs its tiny size.

Unions' concessions buy time for Boston Globe

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

BOSTON -- Negotiators for the New York Times Co. and the Boston Globe have reached a temporary detente in the battle over the Boston newspaper's future as a result of concessions offered by six of the seven Globe unions.

Reconciling the Ivies and the military

Conferees aim to find common ground

Monday, April 20, 2009

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Ivy Leaguers and the military have begun a drive to put ROTC back on campus at Harvard, Yale and Columbia as they try to heal the lingering wounds caused by the antiwar protests of the 1960s that led to the corps' banishment there.

North-South Korea complex hurt by hostilities

Thursday, April 9, 2009

SEOUL | Managers of the Kaesong industrial park, a joint venture just north of the heavily armed border separating North and South Korea, are struggling with its mission to promote peace through economic development.

Hopes for a reunified Korea still alive

Food, money and other aid offered to North

Thursday, April 2, 2009

SEOUL -- The growing unease over North Korea's hostility toward the outside world and its defiance of the United Nations with plans to launch a rocket next week has not deterred South Korea's willingness to negotiate with its communist foe.

Harvard's link to Washington

Noted faculty 'brain trust'

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- President Obama has plucked at least a dozen professors from Harvard University for his administration, tapping a resource on which presidents with wide-ranging ideologies have relied heavily for nearly a century.

Starr sees battle to fill high court

Obama raised hurdles for 2 Bush picks

Monday, Feb. 16, 2009

BOSTON -- What goes around comes around, according to prominent conservative attorney Kenneth W. Starr.