Apparently prompted by the eager Condi Rice (see paragraph 22), Dubya convinced himself before they had even met that Putin would become a best friend for life.

Of course,...

This photo was circulated by Getty after Palin was tabbed for Veep by McCain and appeared, at least, in a cheeseball LAT election slideshow on Palin's fashion sense.

If you haven't seen it before, however,...

Maybe what caused Khamenei and the clerics to derail the Iranian election, as much as anything, was their disaffection with Mousavi's intense and outspoken confidant and wife.

Ahmadinejad signaled as much when, in...

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This photo, published on Mondays' NYT front page, is troubling me no end.

The captions reads:

Mark S. Geitzen, chairman of the Kansas Coalition for Life, parked his truck outside Dr....

In the past...

"We are extremely disappointed" with the verdict, said the Rev. Patrick Mahoney of the Christian Defense Coalition and former national spokesman for Operation Rescue. "But we're thrilled that it even came to trial. This will not stop...

Okay, here we go.

The exhibit above demonstrates the right-wing entering the media bloodstream (courtesy of CNN.) Pairing an almost eight-year-old quote with this photo fished from the file, you see...

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One problem for Obama -- in refusing to release pictorial documentation of torture from the Bush "terror war" era (after having committed to doing so) -- is that, visually, it is not a zero-sum game.

What it...

"What if you get it wrong?" Logan asked.

"We don't," Gough replied.

"Ever?" Logan asked.

"That's a tough question," Gough said after a pause. "Yeah. We...

At first, I thought this photo of Spc. Taylor Jordan lifting weights in the Korengal Valley (which got exposure this week from the WSJ Photo Journal, a NYT slide show, etc.) was published out of irony (excuse the pun).

The key to understanding the latest hooha over the John Edwards-Elizabeth Edwards soap opera is to recognize that the photo above -- published far-and-wide over the past few days -- came from Harpo Productions. Besides referring to one of the world's greatest...

Do you remember...

Obama using the bully pulpit to dictate...

When I heard a major Wall Street private equity player -- as opposed to someone more directly connected to industry -- had become the point man in the GM takeover,...

I don't know. There were all kinds of seductive symbolic elements (hammers-and-sickles, U.S. flags, Hitlers, pigs, Uncle Sams, Indians, Alfred E. Nuemans, George Washingtons, cows, underdraws, Don't Tread On Me flags, tea bags -- of course) running through Wednesday's tea...

In spite of the cheesy arrival of the Obama pooch, I have a feeling this Pete Souza photo might be one of the most significant he will take in the White House given its "unbounded"...

The CEOs arrived today at the White House alone or escorted by other company executives; some were quickly ushered in through the security gate by Bartlett, while others were forced to go through the...

In her blog post about the cover, Fortune's editor tells us that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is vying for governor of California in "Ronald Reagan-style."

So that's what they...