November 2012 - Page 2 of 3 - Reading The Pictures

Militarism Focus Photo November 19, 2012

Petraeus: Partying on a Nickel

The point of the photos here is that many senior officers and their wives are awed by the people they suddenly hang out with, people they're not accustomed to calling friends.

War & Militarism Photo

Gaza and Israel Under Siege: Photo Comparisons Vs How the Brain Works

Viewers don't tend to hold circumstances separately in mind as much as draw comparisons in terms of degree.

International Focus Photo November 18, 2012

Instagram: For IDF with Love

Meditating on this, I'm wondering how many other Israelis could actually be this childlike and naive when it comes to the circumstances at hand.

Photo November 17, 2012

Bag's Quick Takeaways: Obama, McKayla Not Impressed

See what the hug started?

Campaign '12 Photo

The Most Liked and Tweeted Photo of all Time – Part 2

Excuse us (or others) for "hanging on," but this scene seems to also be bucking for meme status.

International Focus Photo November 16, 2012

Game Change for Social Media, Media and Photography: Israel, Hamas Draw Us Literally into War

We can hardly begin to understand how much the outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Hamas (and the apparently greater range of the Palestinian's missiles) have, overnight, changed the waging of war.

International Focus Photo November 15, 2012

Assassination by Air Strike – Our Gaza Edit

The Israel - Palestine conflict remains difficult to capture because even similar photos of one side or the other, even if they feel equivalent, are typically not because of asymmetry.

Campaign '12 Photo November 14, 2012

The GOP Senate’s Diversity Movement — Such As It Is

I can't decide if the photo is just ironic and all too meager, or it's actually a portrait of warning and incentive,

Media Focus Photo

The Petraeus Women: AP Goes Tabloid

The way this story is going, I can imagine the next phase of the FBI investigation boring into why these women (or their relatives) don't have blinds on their windows.

Militarism Focus Photo November 12, 2012

Collecting Kisses for the Troops

Of course, we know that the wars over the past ten years have brought a string of moral failures, but that was just massacres and such.

International Focus Photo

The Petraeus – Broadwell Pictures: It's not about Sex, it's about Idolatry

What the photos offer us right there on the surface is the God-General on his throne, doing what he does best.

Militarism Focus Photo

On Veterans Day, Vets in Pictures

Besides the curiosity the photos raise about these soldiers and their family stories, the images speak to how deeply the military runs through our culture.

Campaign '12 Photo November 10, 2012

Thoughts on the Most Liked and Tweeted Photo of all Time

I believe the Obama photo hit home because, after all the vitriol and the spin and the arm twisting, the photo was just so fresh … and loving.

Campaign '12 Photo November 9, 2012

Businessweek and the Obama Age Progression Cover

Taken as a metaphor for the problems facing his administration, will the next four years be a greater challenge than those facing Obama in his first term?

Campaign '12 Photo

Why Is This Man Crying?

From the start, my greatest regret about Obama has been how we deprived him of the two or three more terms in the Senate to equipped him with the experience to match that raw talent and really prime him for the job.