An Extra Point on New Yorker Obama Campaign '12 Super Bowl Cover
Pleasure watching Romney and Newt pummel each other? Sure. But the real take away is deeper than that.
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Gabby Giffords Steps Down… Then Up
Given the format, the music, the length, it's almost indistinguishable from a campaign video.
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Streep-Thatcher: Beyond the Brooch
If "The Iron Lady" should be a cause for critique of the history and legacy of Thatcherism, instead Streep-Thatcher, and the ability of the celebrity to obscure the political image, is a generator of apathy.
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The Best 2011 Photos We Never Saw – Reuters Edition
Because it was, and remains, that much of a shock and a stain on our way of life.
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Iraq Pullout: America Still Golden
Just as George Bush early on linked patriotism to going shopping, it seems that the residual accomplishment of the Iraq War was the preservation of America's popular culture and consumer way of life.
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Occupy Forcing Militarized PDs to Show Their Colors
It's the uniform colors, combined with all the deployment and use of the teams, hardware and gear, that makes the town square feel like Fallujah.
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Obama Through Bono’s Glasses
This photo from World AIDS Day illustrates how unclear it is where Obama is coming from on important conscience issues.
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Was the UC Davis Pepper Spray Attack Just Waiting to Happen?
The question is, was the UC Davis pepper spray incident almost predictable based on a standing green light to law enforcement to take a hardline with students?
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LA Times Deifies, Mythologizes Fallen Troops. What Friendly Fire?
In conjunction with Christ-like comparisons to the scene at Golgotha and parallels to Iwo Jima, the context that these Marines died as leaders in combat maintains the accepted mythology of ‘the way Americans die.’
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The Penn State Mural and the Cover-Up of Jerry Sandusky
The new mural simultaneously represents an effort to revise history (the institution's detaching itself from an infamous figure) and an awareness of implications of that act.
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Compassion Bashing
"In a society given over to greed & arrogance, compassion could be a revolutionary idea."
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Alan Chin at Occupy Wall Street: Nights at Camp Hashtag
If the protest/occupation in Liberty Square is easy to make fun of, especially for its scale, it creates a new fact on the literal ground of Wall Street. These are young people, victimized by the recession, willing to publicly dissent and, as importantly, stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Eyes on Mrs. MacPhail
What's troubling me is the symbiotic and increasingly parasitical relationship that now exists between citizens and the media, evidenced by the way Anneliese MacPhail, the mother of the slain police officer, and the photographer for the Atlanta paper are using each other.
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It’s a Whole New Dance Down at the Recruitment Office: Life (and Pictures) After DADT
If this photo is any indication, the the U.S. military post-DADT might just be the picture story of the year.
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Who Else Wanted to Do Away with the World Trade Center. (Updated to Include the Arabs – But it's not what You Think.)
There's a lot to tease out of this '62 Corbis file photo leading off a Spiegel "History of the Trade Center" slideshow, including the previous residents dispossessed from the neighborhood -- the Arabs.
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Our 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Portrait … Going the Other Way
Thankfully, friend and brilliant photographer, Mario Tama, sent me this a couple days ago, a photo unique out of the 9/11-remembrance constellation, if for one thing, by simply managing not to take itself too seriously.
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Reconstructing 9/11 with Nina Berman — The Still-Shattering Beehive
The argument is that the free market proved the main catalyst for the destruction that day.
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9/11 and the Trade Center Overrun Labor Day
Far from stakeholders in their toil, Mr. McGowan and his cohorts are romanticized for their brawn and the "lucky fortune" of being part of the legacy of this re-building.
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