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As we start to reopen a national conversation on gun policy in the wake of Friday's shocking mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, it's as important now to understand the geography of guns as the actual trend lines of gun-related crime over time in the past several decades.

Beneath the catchy dance beat and hilarious scenes of Seoul's poshest neighborhood, there might be a subtle message about wealth, class, and value in South Korean society.

Virginie Despentes répond à Lionel Jospin et aux anti-mariage pour tous

as burmese president, thein sein, is said to release more than 6,000 burmese prisoners and detainees, the work of south east asia and UK-based award-winning photographer james mackay becomes stirringly relevant. the artist has captured the portraits of up to 300 burmese political dissidents - each one holding their hand up in the classic buddhist gesture of ‘abhaya mudra’ to bear the name of fellow detainees jailed in recent decades. mackay travelled the world for three years to document these pictures, including undercover trips to burma in order to raise awareness and precipitate formative action to help.

Malkit Shoshan is an Israeli architect. She is the founder and director of the Amsterdam based architectural think tank FAST whose research explores the relations between architecture, planning, politics and activism in Israel/Palestine, Georgia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and the Netherlands.

INFO LE FIGARO Les juges d'Huy et Pons refusent de communiquer la copie des carnets d'Yves Bertrand à toutes les parties de l'affaire Clearstream.

EN IMAGES - Dans cette affaire de dénonciation calomnieuse s’enchevêtrent les noms de responsables politiques de premier plan, mais aussi de plusieurs personnalités du monde industriel ou judiciaire. Voici les acteurs-clés du scandale Clearstream.

Ziad Takieddine, principal suspect dans le volet financier de l’affaire Karachi, doit sa fortune à des commissions occultes touchées dans le cadre des contrats Agosta et Sawari négociés sous le gouvernement Balladur : 130 millions de dollars de commissions. Fortune faite, le millionnaire mène grand train, tant en France qu’à l’étranger. Mais, par le jeu de sociétés et de comptes off-shore, il ne paie aucun impôt en France. Et des ministres du budget, qui ont pu constater l’ampleur de sa fortune de visu, n’ont semble-t-il rien trouver à en redire.

The Obama presidential campaign was an innovation in American politics and American design. For the first time, a candidate used art and design to bring together the American people—capturing their voices in a visual way. The Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art from the historic campaign.

progressive site dedicated to visual politics and the analysis of news images

Apartheid became the official policy of the Government of South Africa in 1948, following the election of the Herenigde Nasionale Party, later renamed the National Party. Under this policy, racial discrimination was institutionalized. The lives of the Africans, who made up almost 75 per cent of the population, were controlled by the unjust segregation laws from birth to the grave. They were proscribed where to live, who to marry and the type of education they would receive in the country of their birth.

From Joseph Fourier to James Hansen, NOAA to I.P.C.C., and Kyoto to Copenhagen, a look at the history of climate study and diplomacy in the modern age of global warming.

@emilejosselin : « Les mots me manquent. » Pour @abrachet, Ségolène Royal et Raël « ont le même graphiste ». « Ségolène Royal is now in relationship with Tom Cruise », selon @marineturchi.

A la mi-juillet, il fait parvenir, via Désirs d'avenir, une facture de 41 860 euros, dont L'Express a eu connaissance, à Pierre Bergé. Le patron de la fondation Yves Saint Laurent est, depuis longtemps, le principal soutien financier de Ségolène Royal. On lui demande de bien vouloir régler "des prestations nouvelles sur le site de Désirs d'avenir". Trois chantiers sont prévus: la création d'une "télévision sur Internet diffusant deux heures par jour", la mise en place d'une "boutique de vente de produits" estampillés Désirs d'avenir et l'installation d'une "arborescence téléphonique surtaxée pour produire des ressources".

le site serait l'oeuvre d'André Hadjez, le compagnon de Ségolène Royal, «très doué en multimédia», selon l'ancienne candidate à la présidentielle.

L’actuelle panique provoquée par campagne officielle sur les dangers supposés de la grippe porcine prend des allures de roman de science-fiction Orwellien. Le décret signé par Sebelius accorde l’immunité à ceux qui fabriquent le vaccin contre la grippe porcine conformément aux dispositions de la loi 2006 sur les urgences de santé publique.

The Obamafy Photo Booth plugin emulates a popular poster by Shepard Fairey. the plugin was made by Dubi Kaufmann as an exercise in pop culture and is not part of any campaign nor it is an endorsement for either candidate. The software is free and I ask that you acknowledge me (Dubi Kaufmann) if you build on it. The plugin was tested on OS X 10.5 Leopard. Send your feedback and your Obamafied cat pet photos to Dubster2k{at}yahoo~dot~com.

VOYAGE au BOUT du CHARBON est construit sur le principe des « livres dont vous êtes les héros ». Il permet à chaque internaute/apprenti reporter de choisir son propre parcours parmi les étapes qui sont illustrées par les photographies, les vidéos et les prises de son réalisées in situ par deux journalistes : Abel Ségrétin (correspondant Rfi et Libération à Pekin) et Samuel Bollendorff (photographe de l’agence l’Oeil Public à Paris).

Magnum meets Flickr. Magnum In Motion invited five members of Flickr to search through Magnum’s archive of over 500,000 images, in an attempt to answer the question: Which issues should be at the forefront of these elections? Watch the essay to discover their picks and explanations. That form of interactive narration should become a dialogue for extended communities.

Who are the people of America? What are we thinking? What makes us angry and frustrated? What gives us hope? Are some of us really all blue and some all red? Or are we mostly shades of purple? InSight America is an innovative documentary project that aims to explore these questions on the eve of one of the most important elections in American history. Calling on the talents of some of the world’s most respected photojournalists, using the Web to update their observations daily, InSight America is a collage of personal investigations and reflections that attempts to capture the things preoccupying Americans during the weeks leading to Election Day. What is the American Dream today?

TYPOGRAPHY CAN subtly or boldly define a company, product, or person. Whether it is Best Buy's big, bold, screaming signs or the sweet, elegant script on a wine label, the type talks to us, the reader. The logos of the presidential candidates are no exception.