A rare photo, especially after the years of damage inflicted on American troops and tanks in Iraq.
Continue ReadingHaving just committed himself to stamping out pornography in the U.S., might we be looking at the emperor with no clothes?
Continue ReadingIn releasing these healthy and hearty photos of Robert Bales in the field, is the DOD looking out for its soldier, or for a system that broke him?
Continue ReadingSince the visibility of married gay couples has not yet become normalized within the optics of State, it’s hard not to read this as a significant symbolic moment.
Continue ReadingA daily stream of photos showing Assad's atrocities against his own people is one thing. More heinous perhaps, are images of domestic indulgence, items of vanity that reveal the bubble the Assad's have been swimming around in as the blood flows in the streets.
Continue ReadingObama and Cameron chomping down foot longs at the NCAA's? Call it one more smooth layup in the Campaign '12 optics battle.
Continue ReadingNicole Bengiveno's GOP primary/racial segregation shot is probably the smartest, bravest campaign photo I've seen all year.
Continue ReadingAfter last night's drenching, how many ways do we like Damon Winter's photo on Mitt's situation?
Continue ReadingAfter Newt's huge (non-)victory sweep last night in Alabama and Mississippi, Stephen Crowley's classic from last October is dead-on again
Continue ReadingThe visuals of the tragedy in Afghanistan and how the Obama Administration is dealing with it.
Continue ReadingThinking of HB56 and Santorum's pervasive religious zeal, the question that seems to need asking is: what would Jesus do?
Continue ReadingThis is the first time I’m seeing wire photos of Israel’s “Patriot”-style Iron Dome missile defense in operation. I just wish I had a better idea how to read these.
Continue ReadingI was already feeling manipulated by this photo in early February, and that's before things went from worse to unfathomable.
Continue ReadingGeo-politics meets compassion marketing meets war tourism.
Continue ReadingMarking the one year anniversary of the tsunami and Fukushima meltdown, this photo is like the cousin of a very early one presaging the ongoing radiation threat on Japan's next generation.
Continue ReadingA political photo-op with the troops invites us to focus not just on the soldier's point-of-view but on his experience of the homefront after war.
Continue ReadingThis photo conveys a yet-unclassified demographic which is more a threat to the GOP in the general and local elections come November: The middle-aged, middle class woman who votes.
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