It only takes an instant to absorb the basic elements of this picture for you to think, "Oh, one more #OccupyWallStreet photo, right?
Continue ReadingThe campaign dance ... and Nancy Reagan, almost literally a ghost.
Continue ReadingI have to admit, the aesthetics of this pic from Tuesday's Obama photo-op got me.
Continue ReadingThe images from the pepper spray confrontation reveal more than just police brutality -- they capture the specific overreaction of high-ranking police officers in the fray.
Continue ReadingIf the protest/occupation in Liberty Square is easy to make fun of, especially for its scale, it creates a new fact on the literal ground of Wall Street. These are young people, victimized by the recession, willing to publicly dissent and, as importantly, stand up against conventional wisdom.
Continue ReadingWhat's most notable about the new batch of photos uploaded to the WH Flickr Stream?
Continue ReadingIf Netanyahu, as he scribbled away at the rhetorical edges, was feeling a sense of urgency about the opportunity for peace, its seems more motivated out of fear that the Palestinians had scored a coup with their statehood application than anything else.
Continue ReadingTea Party at the tip of the spear? Or, is Romney is riding out the preliminaries before elevating his own brand.
Continue ReadingI hope this photo is an outlier, and not how the campaign season is shaping up.
Continue ReadingThe best thing you can say about big media's token coverage of "Occupy Wall Street?" At least it's artful.
Continue ReadingWhat's troubling me is the symbiotic and increasingly parasitical relationship that now exists between citizens and the media, evidenced by the way Anneliese MacPhail, the mother of the slain police officer, and the photographer for the Atlanta paper are using each other.
Continue ReadingIf this photo is any indication, the the U.S. military post-DADT might just be the picture story of the year.
Continue ReadingWhen Arizona State University unveiled its new Nike-endorsed uniforms last week, everybody was really worried how the all-black outfits would fare in the Arizona heat. That is, until a few ardent fans showed up to the first game in blackface, either forgetting or ignoring hundreds of years of...
Continue ReadingI'm sure a John Boehner would point to a photo like this, of all those young and disenfranchised Americans marching on the Stock Exchange, as evidence of class warfare. Except...
Continue ReadingQuestion is, is this drawing good news or bad news?
Continue ReadingA picture I imagine Carville would label Exhibit #1 in his Team Obama broadside.
Continue ReadingNice job by NYT photo-editors on Saturday for two Section A shots calling B-S. Is it too much to hope this suggests a trend?
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