At the fifty day mark of this Administration, I think this photo from yesterday's TIME White House Photo Blog carries a bit of weight. The caption reads: President Obama arrives in the East Room of the White House to sign an Executive Order on stem cells and a Presidential Memorandum on scientific i...

What was the point juxtaposing this headline with this photo leading yesterday's NYT Business Section? Because Tim is obviously not running around with his hair on fire, the look of deliberation implies one of two opposite meanings: he's either the picture of grace under fire, or he's doing his best...

(Like the media can ever get enough.) Under the flimsy guise of a conservative response, Newsweek morphs a super-sized Limbaugh into the Great and Powerful Oz, slaps a tag across his mouth clearly connotative of porn, and guarantees (ca-ching, ca-ching) he will be driving the news cycle beginning a ...

Tim, Tim, Tim. At the NY Fed, the supposed watchdog had an all too cozy relationship with Wall Street and Citi Group. Once nominated for Treasury Secretary, he stumbled out of the gate as a result of several years shorting his taxes. He stumbled again with the "O" banking plan. He owes Summers like ...

by Contributor John Lucaites President Obama’s declaration that we will remove all combat troops from Iraq by the end of 2010 is something of a moment for celebration (if leaving a country that we occupied and brought to its knees under false pretenses can be seen as a moment of joy). The pleasure...

The administration plans to shift 17,000 troops to Afghanistan and leave 35 - 50,ooo troops in Iraq? Louie Palu just won third place in the Picture Story/Feature category of the just-announced White House News Photographers Association awards. As the caption reads: These U.S. Marines operated in Gar...

   As the visual MSM starts to finally absorb the meltdown, this Newsweek slideshow, titled "What About Us?", takes various angles on the pain. This first image does more than just highlight the foodstuff of hard times. At the edges of the photo, both the fate of the American grocery shopp...

"I FACED THE ENEMY AND LIVED!" Lieberman painted on the wall in big, black letters. "IT WAS THE DEATH DEALERS THAT TOOK MY LIFE!" Soldiers called Lieberman's unit, the 1st Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment, the Death Dealers. Adam suffered serious mental health problems after a year of combat in Iraq...

What Charlie Crist understands and the photo demonstrates is that Obama -- a month in -- is far from weakened, far from damaged. So yes, in the context of the echo chamber and the striking Repugs on The Hill, one might consider it a "brave move" by the Florida Gov to "break rank" and appear with the...

   I think what many of us react to now when we see poses/body language like this from the financial gurus, especially these anointed economic firemen, is that they are all of one type. The image above was taken yesterday while Tim Geithner was testifying before Congress on the banking bai...