Watch This Digital Life
When it comes to organizing daily patterns of mobility and interaction, our machines steer us around just as much as we do.
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Indiana's March Madness
This odd notion that we can bracket our politics from the wide world of sports is getting harder and harder to embrace.
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Looking For Holes in the Marathon Bomber's Story
Considering the high stakes when it comes to terrorism and the law, you can understand why the Feds want to make sure there aren't any holes in their story.
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Milestone Optics: Obama’s Pettus Bridge Vs. Bush’s Mission Accomplished
We are looking at a strategic decision to visually frame the president's 50th anniversary Selma speech as a mile marker on a long road toward racial justice.
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Through CPAC-Colored Glasses
Real patriotism doesn't mean just loving your country; rather, we true patriots embody the country.
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Award Season and Western Cultural Exports
If the 2015 Oscars expose a diversity problem with western cultural exporting, then the selection by POY doubles down on the indictment.
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Having the Goods on Cuba
Call this unattributed Reuters photo a dig at the communist version of a big box store.
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Glory as a Stage Show: On Mark Peterson’s Vegas Megachurch Photos
Peterson’s photograph places us right down front at a high-energy, high-tech, multi-media extravaganza where lights, camera, and action are the name of the game.
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…And on the Home Front, U.S. History Activists Go Full Norman Rockwell
If the optics coming out of Hong Kong over the past few weeks make visual democracy look like a western export, it’s worth pausing to notice how the look and feel of civil dissent is taking shape out west.
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When Critical Issues Make For "Bottom-Tier" Visual Stories: Take Education
Save historical exceptions on the scale of Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, it is difficult to imagine developments in education policy as visually spectacular events.
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Hell’s Fire, the Air Force Stealth Chapel, and a More Cosmic Evil
If you’re looking for a visual representation of the End of Days, this image is as good as any.
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Pink Slime — Plus, the Return of Rick Perry!
When the public found out last week that most of the country’s beef has ammonia-infused pink slime in it, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and his buddy Rick from Texas headed over to the pink slime factory in Nebraska for some damage-controlling photographs.
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Putting the Atheist Point A-Cross
Looking at photos of the Reason Rally, I’m struck by how many ralliers depend on religious iconography to visually express their atheism.
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The Obama Flag
For all the symbolic weight still invested in the Stars and Stripes, it’s easy to see how swapping out the fifty states with "The One" plays right into alarmist narratives about the European-style socialist Obama taking over.
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Santorum in the Flesh
Having just committed himself to stamping out pornography in the U.S., might we be looking at the emperor with no clothes?
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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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The Abbottabad Landscape: Disappearing bin Laden
The absence of bin Laden’s lair sends a clear signal that yes, the man himself is really, truly gone.
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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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