The Atlantic

Inside North Korea

Alan Taylor of The Atlantic’s InFocus has posted 37 photos of North Korea by David Guttenfelder. He was granted unprecedented access to parts of North Korea as part of the AP’s efforts to expand coverage of the isolated communist nation. I now know where Saskatoon got their inspiration for their downtown zoning bylaws.

In Focus

Feb 10th, 2011

by Jordon Cooper.

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Alan Taylor, who created The Big Picture as a side project at the Boston Globe has moved to The Atlantic Monthly where he is curating a new photoblog called In Focus for them. Regular readers of the site (and staff at work) know about my passion for The Big Picture and it’s nice to see [...]

Christmas Gift Ideas for your Husband / Father / Boyfriends (all of the men in your life) | 2010 Edition | Guest Post

Nov 22nd, 2010

by Wendy.

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It’s Wendy and I keep telling Jordon that he needs to stop leaving the password for his blog login laying around and he never listens to me. As he said, “Bill Clinton lost the nuclear launch codes and nothing bad happened.” Well what happened is that I am posting a gift guide for what to [...]

E vs. ink

Apr 27th, 2010

by Jordon Cooper.

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My friend Karen posted some thoughts on Twitter about ebooks and readers. Been thinking about how e-books/Ipad exclude poorer readers. Continued…. Folks with literacy/soc. justice concerns should keep zines/broadsheet etc. in mind. If medium is message, cost of readers excludes many. It would easy to dismiss Karen’s thoughts because of her history with paper but [...]

From $10 Trillion to $23 Trillion in Debt

Mar 29th, 2009

by Jordon.

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Frontline has an excellent show on how the United States got to $10 trillion in debt and what it will mean when it gets to $23 trillion in debt. Hint: Fixing this financial crisis may make an even bigger one. James Fallows writes in The Atlantic that China holds $1.4 trillion of that debt (we [...]