Highlighting Meghan McCain as a "real estate showoff" seems remarkably ironic given today's demoralizing housing news.
Continue ReadingWhat if the media simply showed Team Palin as flimflam as they really are?
Continue ReadingI was drawn to this Memorial Day photo for its painful innocence.
Continue ReadingObama tours the tornado devastation in Missouri. (God bless America.)
Continue ReadingThe latest video from TEPCO chronicles the green goo counter-offensive.
Continue ReadingZuckerberg might look like the impish pubescent boy-genius, but it's the world's elite politicians that look so pandering and insignificant in his presence.
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Continue ReadingWith Strauss-Kahn’s presidential aspirations now extinguished, Sarkozy still enjoys showcasing his trophy wife, but with a new twist -- familial bliss.
Continue ReadingSomething disarming about women hoisting rocks.
Continue ReadingCritics of feminism have long suspected that the ultimate goal of the movement is to get rid of men. Their fears seem to be confirmed by artist Debbie Grossman’s “reimaging” of Russell Lee’s iconic photographic series portraying families in the rural New Mexican community of “Pie Town. Feminism, however,...
Continue ReadingWith last night's blue bellweather win in NY-26, these photos --easily missed in late April -- assert and start to clarify the dynamic between the Republican agenda and the public, particularly seniors.
Continue ReadingI'm not sure if this is a media phenomenon, a cultural reflex, or both, but why does the coverage of U.S. catastrophes seems to automatically and fundamentally activate a patriotic response, as if the disaster is somehow an attack on the country?
Continue ReadingAt this BagNews Salon, an expert panel will analyze images of one of the most anticipated moments in American international politics over the past decade, the killing of Osama bin Laden. What was shown, and what does it reveal about the political biases and long building expectations for this...
Continue ReadingWith pics like this on the wire coming away from his encounter with the Israel lobby, I'm sure the White House is now feeling better about the Netanyahu dust-up.
Continue ReadingI couldn't get past the exploitation of the uniform, the beer company tapping the sacred glow around the troops while so many of America's finest are drowning their PTSD in the brew.
Continue ReadingWhile the impetus behind these stories is supposedly exposing the men that "done them wrong," it's often the women who suffer most from the media backlash.
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