Doug Mills/The New York Times With the breaking, but not unexpected news that Rahm is leaving the White House, the choice of this undated photo accompanying the NYT announcement is a telling one. What’s also interesting to me is how much it parallels this image the NYT ran on...
Continue ReadingMeg's team can complain all they want about celebrity site TMZ vacuuming up the imagery from yesterday's press conference into the great annals of scandal iconography, it's not going to help.
Continue ReadingYou get a nice take on Beck's "angel" self on the cover of this coming Sunday's NYT Mag.
Continue ReadingFirst, let's get something straight. The Chicago Trib is using that headline and this photo out of context.
Continue ReadingBoth this photograph and a second, featuring Hamid Karzai, reveal the same, sad reality: no amount of military force on the periphery can compensate for injustice or corruption at the center of the state.
Continue ReadingWith the Tea Party's standard bearers looking more and more radical and wild-eyed, this photo of the President, calm and grounded outside the Oval Office, is all the more impactful for the lack of drama or pizzaz.
Continue ReadingWow, you've just gotta love this political ad from Renee Ellmers, a candidate for Congress in North Carolina’s 2nd District. If her goal -- with this Ground Zero ad -- is to scare viewers about a potential Muslim takeover of New York, her examples hardly demonstrate Islam's world domination.
Continue ReadingTracking the latest racist attack on Obama -- dressed up as a pseudo-intellectual argument about Obama's "Kenyan neo-colonial" philosophy -- Forbes Magazine gives Dinesh D'Souza a front page platform to expound this dog-whistle theory in the name of the business community.
Continue ReadingIf many writers have already provided Mr. D'Souza's bizarre pseudo-intellectual racist attack a thoughtful slapdown, my concern is the visual language.
Continue ReadingJeremy Lange's third post from the War At Home: Death in uniform, surge babies, and cupcakes.
Continue ReadingWaiting for "Superman."The Reaction? How about: Waiting for "The Social Network," with this show and photo as the reaction? Or, the pre-emption.
Continue ReadingConsidering the date of this winning "Magazine Cover of the Year" award, it seems the message has only grown stronger.
Continue ReadingAfter a week of studying pics from the political wars, this is where my mind drifted on a Friday afternoon. And yes, I'll take captions. Enjoy!
Continue ReadingIt's hard to believe Boehner would be so clueless as to actually brandish this tea pot after the Repubs "Contract with America Show."
Continue ReadingSure, it's only one picture, but in embracing this woman with cancer, Obama actually and finally interjects some heart into an issue that is, after all, a matter of life-and-death.
Continue ReadingIf Mike Allen thinks Woodward's book is a net positive for Obama, the cover surely isn't. Call it "team of rival-ry."
Continue ReadingMost of the reports on her rally are primarily, if not exclusively photographic, almost to the exclusion of what she actually had to say. The irony, of course, is that a quasi-faux rally cast as political spectacle received far more coverage than the presumably unintentional spectacle of actual Senators...
Continue ReadingThe timing of this portrait was as interesting as the image itself, coming just six days after Obama's inauguration and helping set, or better yet, confuse the tone of what was billed as a progressive new Administration.
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