What's Up With Those Middle East Edition Businessweek Covers?
I don't know, looking at these covers they seem unusually inflamed.
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How the Pictures are Killing Us: The Dynamics of the Sotloff and Foley ISIS Videos
If the Foley and Sotloff videos felt like a piercing blow, if just from the bloodless screen shots, what is it that so pierced us?
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America from the Outside: Nixon's Prop Wash by Jean-Pierre Laffont … and Annie Leibovitz
What caught my eye was this version of Nixon's final departure from the White House. Of course, it couldn't be more different then that iconic scene hardwired into the America consciousness.
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Compassionate Conservatism: Damon Winter’s New Photos from Gitmo for The NY Times
The new wrinkle is on how the prisoners are allowed more contact with each other as long as they demonstrate good behavior.
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On that Photo of the Police Dog Funeral
The image made me pause for a moment and consider how quick we are to draw comparisons, to generalize and to judge.
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When Critical Issues Make For "Bottom-Tier" Visual Stories: Take Education
Save historical exceptions on the scale of Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, it is difficult to imagine developments in education policy as visually spectacular events.
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