It's not my intention to make light. These scenes (grainy, emergency yellow and saturated like this) are just eerie.
Continue ReadingWhat do you think the ratio is here between security muscle, state media, hand picked loyalists and the random man-on-the-street?
Continue ReadingWe're interested in your thoughts about why this photo of a Libyan rebel was so popular yesterday.
Continue ReadingA critic could say that the President and his people have been watching too much TV, or have been too quick to engage Gaddafi because of the powerful imagery of the Middle East uprising.
Continue ReadingTough question (once you get past the fact it's a pro-Gaddafi demonstration)
Continue ReadingThere’s nothing more “do it yourself” than being a woman scientist, and depicting Fried as Rosie does more to underscore her difference from other scientific geniuses than it does to suggest that science is no longer a boys’ club.
Continue ReadingAfter Wisconsin, does Santorum really think it's safe to do a blue-collar photo-op .. in a bar ... in a suit?
Continue ReadingThis AP shot is actually pretty clever in the way it captures Obama's philosophy above a sea of tough looking faces.
Continue ReadingAt this point, it seems that people are both deeply connected to the story, but also do not want to face the reality/consequences of real live nuclear power plant accident.
Continue ReadingIf these dramatic scenes from Deraa, Syria, on Friday were reminiscent of anything here in the West, it was the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad's Firdos Square. (With some key modifications.)
Continue ReadingBefore the Gaddafi's elevated to Public Enemy No. 1, Saif Gaddafi and his artwork attracted fawning attention. This piece is certainly my favorite.
Continue ReadingCool illustration, but maybe not so clear cut. Is Gaddafi that much of a machine?
Continue ReadingThis photo -- of a lone rebel carrying a grenade launcher and a guitar -- crystallizes the fear I've had about the Libya uprising.
Continue ReadingSports Illustrated's tournament cover photo "feats" how the NCAA, sports coaches and Madison Avenue are profiting to the stratosphere.
Continue ReadingI find the photos interesting in their anonymity -- consistent, I assume, with the way Japanese orient to the group as much as Americans obsesses over the individual, and look high and low, even more intensely since 9/11, for "the hero."
Continue ReadingAs we debate the value of unions in the days ahead, we are well advised to recall the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and worker's needs to have for a collective voice in representing their interests, particularly in the face of efforts to castigate unions as little more than selfish,...
Continue ReadingTwelve days after the cataclysmic earthquake in Japan, political cartoonists world-wide are manipulating the image of the Japanese flag and exploring the aftershocks, some more sensitively than others.
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