The art of stopping or slowing down an oil spill turns out to be something of an ancient art.
Continue ReadingThese different sets of wings are all about what's gracious and what's disastrous in the Gulf between the United States and Mexico.
Continue ReadingThe photo, of a grizzly bear foraging for food, is indicative of how nature and industry are already colliding at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.
Continue ReadingSixteen months now into his Presidency, how much does this expressive picture capture about Obama?
Continue ReadingThe 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...
Continue ReadingMatt 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.
Continue ReadingPhotographer Nicole Tung coverage of a local election in Pakistan.
Continue ReadingBesides 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.
Continue ReadingThe yearly cost of a membership to the Bowling Green Country Club. For you: $6,340. For Rand Paul: incalculable.
Continue ReadingIt was a big night for Democrats and progressives -- and that includes the resounding victory by Tea Party Senate aspirant, Rand Paul.
Continue ReadingWe 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...
Continue ReadingSeems it's left to the visual media to attempt to and bring BP down to size.
Continue ReadingHow 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?
Continue ReadingWe 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...
Continue ReadingIf the term "political self-interest" is an oxymoron, it could well prove fatal to Arlen Specter's career on Tuesday.
Continue ReadingThis 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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