Your Turn: Iranian Revolution Coming to a Head
There are only a few images in circulation showing the new guidelines for male hairstyles approved by the Iranian Ministry and Culture set to be unveiled (so to speak) at the “Modesty and Veil Festival” later this summer. I'm interested in how you read these cuts -- and...
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July 4th: Dover and New York
The Fourth of July in America: Scenes from Dover and New York
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Your Turn: If Looks Could Kill
I thought this was an interesting choice to counterprogram the G-8 summit. …And people worried, after 9/11, if irony was dead. Frankly, though, I’d love it — in addition to understanding this in terms of the current state of the world — if someone could illuminate this a little...
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World Cup: What If…
What if, in the midst of war and strife and suffering and inequality, we could suddenly have a month, a whole month, in which military-style encampments were pitched by sports fans.
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Nina Berman: Big Jesus Remembered
“I think it’s a sign of the end of the world,” said Paul Wright, 21, of Oxford. “If lightning is going to strike God, then there’s no hope.” –from “Rebuilt Jesus statue will be fireproof, pastor says.” (Dayton Daily News) The end of the world? How about, a symbolic...
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The Gores: Happily Never After
On the surface, there is no questioning "the perfect love" in this prototypical American relationship. Not surprisingly, though, the relationship -- unlike the paradigm on which it was based --turns out to be a lot more complicated.
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Your Turn: Sex and the Desert (or, Dick Cheney, Eat your Heart Out)
Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon put the neocons to shame.
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Take That, Kneester-Hipsock American Apparel Formula!
The 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...
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The Supremely Gay Card
After CBS provides a forum for a right-wing cultural attack on Obama's Supreme Court new nominee, WAPO puts its own spin on an otherwise affirming, even celebratory photo.
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Have Some More Cake: Another White House Correspondents' Dinner
Those watching at home had no trouble grasping the essence of this morsel, a stumbling empire feasting on celebrity culture.
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Perry Should've 'Cowboyed Up'
Statesman.com's John Kelso dishes out some tough, Texas-style photo analysis in response to the Rick Perry Newsweek cover.
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The Children’s Crusade
A poignant reminder that those who carry the weight of our military efforts too often go off to war as naïve and wide-eyed children.
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Your Turn: The Stevens Era
Obviously, the Supreme Court looks a lot different in Justice Stevens's last year than it did up front.
Continue ReadingThe Tiger Morality Play (Cha-Ching)
Have you seen the new Masters commercial? Nike assumes the fallen Tiger has undergone a moral re-education ... for more woooshing profits. Have you seen the new Masters commercial? Nike assumes the fallen Tiger has undergone a moral re-education ... for more woooshing profits.
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America: The Fairy Tale Alive and Well
In two colorful photos, one of the Obamas during the White House Easter party, and the second, a Disney World hand out, we see America's powerful fantasy instincts spring to life.
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In the Neighborhood
Obama's Easter trip to church in South East Washington shines a brief and unusual light on a poor black urban community -- a slice of America that otherwise remains largely invisible.
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Your Turn: Rielle Hunter Speaks Out (in Words and… Whoa!)
BagNewsNotes readers respond to G.Q.'s Reille Hunter interview and slide show, and particularly, the disconnect between the two.
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