George Zimmerman's Lawyer's Dadaist Press Conference
This press conference/photo op with Zimmerman's limbo lawyers offers one of the stranger collections of otherwise standard press conference images I've seen in a while.
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Newsweek's "Jesus in Time Square": Is There a Larger Meaning Here?
Wither the church, is this cover about an American failure of purpose?
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Through SCOTUS Demos & Visual Noise, Tea Party vs. Obama
The atmosphere was either “festive” and “wonderful” or filled with “hollering and screaming.” This image, however, hints at the broader deliberative dynamics shaping the health insurance debate.
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The NRA's Conceal Carry Hoodie
Well, at least it puts one major focus of the Trayvon Martin episode where it needs to be - on the availability of guns and increasingly lax ownership laws.
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Three Men with Beards
Since the visibility of married gay couples has not yet become normalized within the optics of State, it’s hard not to read this as a significant symbolic moment.
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Coming Soon: The Joseph Kony Tour Package
Geo-politics meets compassion marketing meets war tourism.
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Female Legislators Walk: If A Tree Falls in a (Male) Forest
Let's not forget the scene from still another angle, which involves all those women witnessing the abuse play out from the gallery, proverbial and otherwise.
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How Limbaugh Engages Women on his Best Day
Taking the most favorable "data" available, Limbaugh's engagement with women is a lot less about common ground than about achievement and possession.
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Our Take on the Active Duty Homecoming Kiss — The Gay Male Edition (Finally)
Perhaps the most provocative aspect of the photo, however, is the fact that it's the guy in uniform who presents as the more submissive, or what many would see as the more "feminine" role.
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Drowning or Just Listing?: What Depression Looks Like
What I wonder is if the photo is going for too much drama when depression is actually more cripplingly everyday.
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Quick Takes: Street Views of Jeremy Lin's Family Home
A story too important to be left to the paparazzi.
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Last Word on the Afghan War: That’s Entertainment?
Afghan landscape meets global war on terror meets ... John Bonham?
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How To Look at a Woman's Body: World Press Photo and the New Amazons
This picture as a photographic object must undergo the same difficult process of interpretation – is it a kind of pornography or a protest item that raises the awareness of FEMEN’s cause?
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There is Bono, and then there is Africa
It is strikingly clear that musician-turned-humanitarian Bono, not Ghana (nor any needy child), takes the starring role in Adrian Steirn’s Pictures from Ghana.
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Bart Starr Meets Starship Troopers Meets Cleopatra: Super Bowl as Cosmic Mashup
Science fiction has always been about the present, and about the relationship between politics and society. The Super Bowl is a relative newcomer, but thanks to the power of spectacle it’s catching up fast.
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Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Acceptance in One Photo
You have to read the caption to understand the situation, but once you do, you get a glimpse of how real-life America has incorporated what the media feels is outside the norm.
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Combining Children with Scare Tactics in Georgia’s Anti-Obesity Campaign
The ads consciously manipulate feelings of guilt and fear in an effort to capture attention. The only question is, whose attention are they trying to get?
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