June 2009 - Page 3 of 4 - Reading The Pictures

Terror Focus Photo June 9, 2009

Holding So Far

It's the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York. And, as of yesterday, it holds Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first Gitmo prisoner to be transferred to the United States to stand trail on federal charges.

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Not To Be Upstaged

Laying low for 100 days or so, it looks like Palin is starting to circulate and cause trouble again based on her awkward appearance at the big GOP hoo-hah, the NRSC/NRCC fundraising dinner. After playing coy with the organizing committee over the keynote role (ultimately handed to Newt), Team...

International Focus Photo June 8, 2009

Campaign Update: The Youth Of Iran

If you're following the photo coverage of the tense and emotional Iranian election, the difference between "the Ahmadinejad-" and "Mousavi images" are fascinating.

International Focus Photo

Beyond Ahmadinejad

You don't think the Iranians have had about enough of Ahmadinejad, just for the international damage?

Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo June 7, 2009

The Colbert/Newsweek Iraq Cover (or, Someone We Admire Yelling It At Us)

Stephen Colbert turns himself into a national billboard to shout at us (through parody, of course) about the men and women who have been forsaken for carrying out a forsaken war.

John Moore Photo

Eviction Update

One has only to glimpse this image to intuit the question: how many people suffering the recession are just barely keeping their heads above water?

Media Focus Photo

Inside Out and Upside Down

As a visual narrative, you could say this NYT Magazine cover on Obama and the health care issue is playing "the Chicago card."

President Obama Photo June 6, 2009

Mission Cairo: Barack Hussein Obama

Although Barack Obama's Muslim connections have been controversial at home, so much so the domestic press played it down on his Cairo trip, it's quite an asset in reaching out. It starts with just looking at him.

International Focus Photo

Obama and Wiesel at Buchenwald

President Obama, Chancellor Merkel, and author, activist and Buchenwald concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel visit the former Buchenwald concentration camp on June 5, 2009 near Weimar, Germany. The BAG was drawn to the connection, expressed in news photos, between Obama and Wiesel.

Media Focus Photo June 5, 2009

Your Turn: The Wise Latina

The place to turn for a thoughtful and robust deconstruction of National Review's weird "Wise Latina" Sotomayor cover? It's the BAGnewsNotes readership.

Alan Chin Photo June 4, 2009

Our Man In Tiananmen: Then and Now (Or: It's A Hell Of A Lot Better Using An Umbrella Than A Machine Gun)

Some comments from contributer Alan Chin, who made these photographs in Tienamin Square yesterday on the twenty-year anniversary of the famous massacre.