Alan Chin in Cairo: The Opposition Recharging
Day 16 in Cairo: From outside the Parliament to inside the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters to Tahrir Square where protest organizers are manning the power strips, the uprising is recharging.
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The Inaugural Issue of The Tea Party Review
The Bag takes its infamous red pen to the front cover of the inaugural Tea Party Review.
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Alan Chin in Cairo: A Crowded Square
Egypt Uprising, Day 15: As the political situation settles into a stalemate, protesters returned in force to Tahrir Square energized by the words of a former Google executive released from detention.
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Obama: J-O-B-S (Now, Repeat)
What this WH "photo of the day" does do, in big bold letters (also documenting a complete pivot in the populist direction once Team Obama left the Chamber and stepped into Lafayette Square), is drive home the singular message of the re-calibrated White House.
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Alan Chin & David Degner in Cairo: Traffic and Camping
Middle East Uprising, Day 14: The Egyptian government is anxious to let the world know that life is returning to normal. But despite the current calm, the anxiousness is well deserved.
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Snickering Super Bowl Ads: Whiny Liberals Mowed Down in Logging Accident
There was a lot of violence yesterday during Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast, although most of it happened during the commercial breaks. How could red-blooded, faux patriotic right-wing America not have cheered!
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Reagan 100th B-Day: Palin Takes Bull by the Horns
Besides the wonderful sarcasm lent by the wall-mounted hunting trophy (and the fact Reagan looks like he's riding that man's head), the fact that Sarah Palin and Ronald Reagan line up on the same vector -- mostly by swooping into Santa Barbara to host some 100th birthday reception at...
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Alan Chin in Cairo: Power In Flux
BagNews contributing photographer Alan Chin's first dispatch from Cairo. How my cameras were impounded, and the mood on the street.
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Egypt Uprising: Coach Mubarak and QB Suleiman's Own Little Super Bowl
What's so brilliant here is how Suleiman is simultaneously using a regal and highly-official looking (but actually, completely informal and unofficial) sit down with the Muslim Brotherhood to feign good faith negotiations, while at the same time stoking fears in the West about an Islamic take-over and raising the...
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Super Bowl: Enter the Matrix
So maybe this isn’t "The Matrix," but "2001," the screen a monolith jammed into human consciousness by aliens. Except these aliens aren’t trying to usher in a new human race, but rather, one attuned completely to the corporate enterprise of buying-and-selling.
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David Degner in Cairo: Not Just Will, But Ingenuity
Looking at the hostilities in Egypt between pro- and anti-Mubarak fighters, the means of engagement might be primitive, but it would be a serious mistake to think about the people in same terms.
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The Arab Street: Here's Who I Am and Here's What I Need
Of course, the point of taping bread to your head while protesting the government is to make the point that even the basic staples of life are going lacking, that people can barely sustain themselves. But then, I believe there's another element here, perhaps a more practical and...
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Egyptian "Stability" (Many Tanks from US)
They are symbols, sure, but they also are real tanks having specific designs and manufacturers. And that’s where some of the “missing” information is actually there to be seen.
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Super Bowl: Two Faces of Ben
CNN/SI calls Ben Roethlisberger chastened and humbled and runs this photograph to support the idea: a Ben that stares into the heavens, his mouth slightly open in awe, his eyes almost dewy. But what remains is Ben’s wild playoff beard and the contradiction of American sports: redemption has...
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Chris Hondros on the Madness in Tahrir Square
The only way I can describe the situation today is that it was totally old school, just people with rocks, sticks and fists. It felt almost historical. It was probably more like how the American Revolution was fought. Or a fight in 683 BC. Just thousands...
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Egypt Uprising: Reuters’ Saint Obama
With the President pressing Mubarak to begin "an orderly transition" from power, however, is this Reuters photo illustrating a Reuters article actually calling out Obama for sanctimony?
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David Degner in Cairo: No Longer About Freedom of Speech But Life and Death
Reaching photographer David Degner again in Cairo, he provides BagNews readers this photo and account from Tahrir Square.
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Egypt: Just Go
Carolyn Cole's image effectively captured the singular and resounding reply by the Egyptian people to Mubarak's televised proposal.
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