Matt Mendelsohn is a writer and photographer from Arlington, Virginia. He has written for The New York Times and Washington Post magazine. A collection of Matt's photography is currently being exhibited in Paris at the Memorial de la Shoah.
As a photojournalist for UPI and USA Today for over twenty years, Matt covered the White House, the Gulf War, the invasion of Panama, and countless professional sporting events.
"In my dreams, Roma will always throw me an apple, but I now know it is only a dream." Holocaust fabulist Herman Rosenblatt, on his debunked memoir, "Angel at the Fence."
"I am chagrined and astonished that my mind could play such a trick on me." Best-selling Christian author Neale...
In an unexpected blow to his presidential aspirations, Senator John McCain injured four of his fingers, two on each hand, after repeatedly making the international sign for quotation marks at a stop in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Campaign officials immediately suspended all operations until a new and safer method of expressing smarmy...
Each election cycle, it's always exciting to guess how the right wing is going to dress liberals up for the big spooky day. In the past, they've gone as paroled murderers coming for your family, big government coming for your wallet, cross-dressers coming to teach your children, and killjoys coming...
Sadly, I didn't think so. Between all the truly grave dangers facing our country -- the economic crisis, the election, Sarah Palin's wardrobe malfunction -- it's easy to see how a thing like a war, with real people dying, could get, well, misplaced.
Posted January 13, 2009 | 04:33 PM (EST)