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Disaster Focus Photo May 24, 2010

BP Booms Keeping Oil ON Shore, Not Off — Greenpeace

The art of stopping or slowing down an oil spill turns out to be something of an ancient art.

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Disaster Focus Photo May 23, 2010

Wings

These different sets of wings are all about what's gracious and what's disastrous in the Gulf between the United States and Mexico.

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Eco Watch Photo

Meal Time at Prudhoe Bay

The photo, of a grizzly bear foraging for food, is indicative of how nature and industry are already colliding at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

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President Obama Photo May 22, 2010

Your Turn: How’s He Doing?

Sixteen months now into his Presidency, how much does this expressive picture capture about Obama?

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Business Focus Photo May 20, 2010

Take That, Kneester-Hipsock American Apparel Formula!

The ease with which Norris and Sachse strip away the facade of fashion photography is alarming. If the use of the same playful and suggestive captions put alongside images of a woman - who is not the commonly seen shape - jolt us, could it be we harbor only...

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Sestak: Color Me "Indy"

Matt Bai discusses how "the mainstreaming" of voter insurrection has evolved to the point that it's not just incumbents that are endangered, but the two party culture itself. Hence, Joe Sestak ... and Pantone.

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Nicole Tung: Gilgit Election

Photographer Nicole Tung coverage of a local election in Pakistan.

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BP Colluding with Government on Media Censorship?

Besides demanding a hard look at the line between collusion and cooperation, these stills also call for a blunt examination of how much BP is leveraging the crisis (and its central management of it) primarily to blunt, stall or mitigate perceptual damage to the corporation.

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Rand "Country Club" Paul

The yearly cost of a membership to the Bowling Green Country Club. For you: $6,340. For Rand Paul: incalculable.

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International Focus Photo May 19, 2010

Nicole Tung: Pakistan's Currents

Photographer Nicole Tung in Pakistan.

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Election Final: Like Rand Paul Won't Tread on GOP

It was a big night for Democrats and progressives -- and that includes the resounding victory by Tea Party Senate aspirant, Rand Paul.

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Disaster Focus Photo May 18, 2010

Big Oil's (Not So) Dirty Hands

We tend to think of oil as having relatively low viscosity, largely because most of us encounter it once it has been refined and readied for consumption.  But here we see it as the sludge that it becomes after floating about in the gulf for several days – a...

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Those BP Funnies

Seems it's left to the visual media to attempt to and bring BP down to size.

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Disaster Focus Photo May 17, 2010

Capitol Concern

How much does the fact we're witnessing the reaction of a group of women Senators distract from government's complicity in BP's defoliation of the Gulf?

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Taking Signals from the Birthers

We might as well admit that American politics is insane.  Where else could selection for the nation’s highest court involve debate over a photograph of the nominee playing softball? Really incriminating, isn’t it?  Do we really want a Justice who bats right?  But wait: if justices, in the immortal...

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Business Focus Photo May 15, 2010

NRA Convention: If Looks Could Kill

NRA is pretty in pink.

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Campaign '10 Photo

Specter, Party of One

If the term "political self-interest" is an oxymoron, it could well prove fatal to Arlen Specter's career on Tuesday.

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Visual Week in Review: Coming to the Surface

This BagNewsSalon Visual Week in Review takes a look at the increasingly visible oil disaster in the Gulf, the Republicans "getting more graphic" in election season, the cast change (and Viagra injection) in British politics, and Obama's new nominee to the Supreme Court.

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