Eye on Tunisia, Egypt
This photo of the events in Tunisia is one of the more suggestive I've seen, a poignant contrast when it comes to corruption, elitism, the bubble around the despot -- and the ultimate fragility of that paradise.
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Tiger Hostility (Or: A Swipe at the Read Chinese)
I can't help wondering if this cover is less about "tough love meets Dr. Spock" than it is about immigrant bashing and a back-handed swipe at China.
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Your Turn: Michelle and the Chinese
I found this stunning, and descriptive in all kinds of ways. It was taken this morning during the State arrival ceremony for China's President Hu.
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Fashion of the (War) Times … or: Don't Get me STARTed
Maybe the Russians are taking the impending passage of START just a little too far.
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Brendan Hoffman: Thousands of Small Injustices
Brendan Hoffman from the Haitian election and why it went wrong: not just chaos or corruption alone, but a flawed process.
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World Media Sinks to TMZ Level over Wiki-leaked Diplo-Chatter
It seems the flood of unvarnished diplo-chatter revealed by the latest Wikileaks leak has provided media, especially visual media, a field day to dish dirt on world leaders rather than really dig for photos that cast a clearer light on all the new information.
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Spencer Platt: Journey Through Cholera
Spencer Platt describes the moral uneasiness of working in Haiti during cholera outbreak.
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I’m Too Sexy for My NATO
Can't believe I'm saying this, but the conservatives are hot.
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Obama the Invalid
Beyond the analogy of America as a car stuck in a ditch, the harsh photo represents Obama as the guy who was in the car when it got totaled.
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Individual Wars
Jeremy Lange's fourth post from the War At Home: The individual experiences of war.
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State Power When the Center Should Not Hold
Both this photograph and a second, featuring Hamid Karzai, reveal the same, sad reality: no amount of military force on the periphery can compensate for injustice or corruption at the center of the state.
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Surge Babies
Jeremy Lange's third post from the War At Home: Death in uniform, surge babies, and cupcakes.
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Stephen Ferry's "Colombia Ongoing": Ants Storm Congress
Stephen Ferry reports from Colombia: Ants on the walls of Congress, a new president, and the war continues.
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April Rabkin: Election Posters Highlight Propaganda Surrounding Afghan Election
It is an inspiring sight, at first: the streets of Afghanistan are saturated with campaign posters. They're on storefronts, roadside billboards, even festooning lampposts like holiday streamers. Democracy must be blooming, right?
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Jeremy Lange's "War At Home": Wounded Warriors
Jeremy Lange's War Home At Home: The Wounded Warriors of Camp LeJeune. President Obama made a speech from the Oval Office ten days ago, but the question neither he, nor anyone, can truly answer is if all this death and suffering was in vain.
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White House Priorities: First Things First?
I can't help but wonder where the Administration is going with this first push after the summer break.
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Jeremy Lange: The War At Home
Photographer Jeremy Lange photographs the war at home, near his home in North Carolina.
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Brendan Hoffman: Haiti Far From The Madding Crowd
The fifth and last of Brendan Hoffman's series from Haiti six months after the earthquake. If so many Haitian farmers hadn't been driven off their land by cheap foreign goods, these photos would represent many more who survived the quake in the capital and were living a sustainable rural...
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