Nina Berman: Prosperity Gospel
Nina Berman photographs Bishop Eddie Long in his mega-church and the "Prosperity Gospel."
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Moving to Appalachia
Second post of photographer Antrim Caskey's Mountaintop Mining Watch series from West Virginia on mountaintop removal by coal companies.
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Burying the Hatchet. (Yeah, Right.)
If these regional rituals of post-election comity convey the quaintness and innocence of a kinder-and-gentler America, there is also a deeply bitter irony to them in light of the coming battle royale.
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GOP Solidarity Dead on Arrival. (Love the Hats!)
If Boehner, McConnell and the corporate Republicans thought they could safely co-opt those Tea Party-branded folk, the fun has already begun. Here, for example, is Team Abortion actually delivering the baby to Mr. Boehner's Chief-of-Staff (love the hats!) with half the D.C. photo corps on hand.
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"The Blood Of Jesus Against Obama" (Or: Sarah Tweeting Under the Radar)
I'm sure some people see social networking as the ability to be that much more graphic and hateful than they would otherwise be in a more visible, responsible and/or accountable setting.
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Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Tree-planting on Kayford Mountain
Antrim Caskey's "Dragline": Mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia.
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MIDTERMS + 1: Sucking, Or Sucking it Up?
Today's "day after mid-terms" wallpaper symbolizes a perfect collusion between an all-too-generic interpretation (guy takes hit, guy chastened) and the conservative one (President reeling from policy slap-down from the American people). The only thing is, both readings are wrong.
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MIDTERM Diagnostics
In shooting down Angle, Paladino, O'Donnell and McMahon, it seems the American people -- consistently underestimated by the punditocracy -- showed they know the difference between ideology, on the one hand, and character (or psychopathology) on the other.
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MIDTERMS: Where Tuesday Night's Whole Debacle Got Started
15 days after the 2008 election. Read the caption: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (R) applauds Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the Republican presidential nominee, at bi-partisan dinner honoring McCain in Washington on January 19, 2009. (UPI Photo/Joshua Roberts/Pool)
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When Politicians (Not Just Pictures) Actually Spoke To Two Americas
The scene of this man kneeling in front of Obama's limo is suggestive of the awesome gap between the have and increasingly-despairing have nots in this country ... a problem, during this election, we heard next-to-nothing about.
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Election Day Quick Tour
In plumbing the newswires for the broader themes of Campaign 2010, I came across this shot from a Connecticut Tea Party rally yesterday. I’m not sure what to make of the Dunkin Donuts cup, but the other item is a story. This red sweater clutching the book not only...
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Final Optics of Campaign 2010
After all the drama and battling, the mid-terms boiled down to this NYT composition leading today's front page.
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