Obama's "Crude Awakening"
It's certainly not too late, but the wonky, pervasively tactical, and profoundly deliberate Obama is up against a tangible, highly-visible, publicly distressing, tenacious and unabating crisis that cannot be defeated or buried so much as it has to be shaped and managed.
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Netanyahu's Sea Legs
Considering how badly the Israeli military botched the raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara was, it seems parallels abound.
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Alan Chin: Dover Air Force Base
Focus on the War: Photographer Alan Chin at Dover Air Force Base
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Do Real Presidents Show Up at Arlington?
Might the grasping and "beyond petty" attack on Obama for not being at Arlington tomorrow actually have a message in it after all?
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A Look Back at "Looking For Evidence": A Recent Interview with Eva Leitolf
Just what is the subject matter that is so beautifully captured and portrayed in Eva Leitolf's "Looking For Evidence"? Grand scenic vistas? Natural scenic wonders? They are essentially banal and vacant crime scenes- inconspicuous corners, streets, and crossings in Germany where racial assaults, beatings and confrontations had...
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Eating Some (Oily) Crow
If it was the first high-profile look of contrition we've seen from Obama, that's not to say it wasn't also a necessary and smart political display.
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Obama Hits the Beach
Certainly, having Obama physically getting his hands on the oil and touching the problem was a smart thing. The scene looks deceptively simple, but these things are never that easy and obvious to get right.
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Visual Week in Review: National Geographic, It Wasn’t
This week's BagNewsSalon Visual Week in Review focuses on the only story that really registered -- and who got tarred.
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Nicole Tung: Detained
Photographer Nicole Tung detained by the Pakistani authorities in the Northwest Frontier.
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Your Turn: Sex and the Desert (or, Dick Cheney, Eat your Heart Out)
Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon put the neocons to shame.
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Thursday Grand Tour: Our Addiction/BP Killing the Prez?/Mr. Solar Installer/Top Kill
With the oil spill in the Gulf starting to drive people crazy, these images jumped out at us today.
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Jon Lowenstein: Aftershock Haiti
BagNewsSalon presents Jon Lowenstein's photos from Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in his own words.
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"Well, We Did it in Kuwait"
Is the memory (and the dramatic images) of the U.S.capping the Kuwaiti wells in '91 (never mind that it took nine months to get it done) partly fueling the frustration over our latest "Gulf crisis."
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BP CEO Hayward Trying not to Step in it
In this one self-protective gesture, BP CEO Tony Hayward totally gives himself away.
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After the Disaster: Why Not Get Back to Better?
The usual response will be to clean up the worst of the mess and then make do with a bit less than you had before. But why settle for that? I'd like to think that the time is coming when, instead of getting back to not very...
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WAPO: Elena Kagan, Close Your Legs!
Maybe a traditional media fixture like WAPO fashion writer Robin Givhan (remember her no-longer-fatboy-Huckabee takedown? ) is so insulated from reality, she can just publish anything that pops into her head. In this case, however, I can’t imagine she isn’t going to feel the boomerang. The photo above, by...
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Rand Paul Sucking on a Tailpipe?
You think things aren't getting ugly between Rand Paul and the visual media?
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Death of the Pelicans
As much as we can know about evils and catastrophe, it's the only the experience of actually seeing this kind of devastation that makes the fact real and felt.
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