PUBLIC MARKS with tag usa

An artist secretly painted a 60-foot-high image of a naked woman above a tunnel in Malibu Canyon in 1966.

Yet Obama hasn't played the game that he promised. Instead, the game he has played has been exactly the game that Hillary Clinton promised and that Bill Clinton executed: striking a bargain with the most powerful lobbyists as a way to get a bill through--and as it turns out, the people don't have the most powerful lobbyists.

For all you skeptics who still believe in Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, and trickle- down theories, it might just be a matter of time before you have to change your tune.

My activities may be more symbolic than not, but if 300 million people started sending private information to federal agents, the government would need to hire as many as another 300 million people, possibly more, to keep up with the information and we’d have to redesign our entire intelligence system.

I COULD have contested the legality of the investigation and gotten a lawyer. But I thought that would make things messier. It was clear who had the power in this situation. And when you’re face to face with someone with so much power, you behave in an unusual manner. You dare not take any action. You rely on instincts and do what you need to survive. I told them everything.

Writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn talks about the human element of craft, and the potential for a skill to mature into an art. And in sharing his story, he alights on the real meaning of handmade—a movement whose riches are measured in people, not cash.

Here are some of my favourite pictures by American Photographer Robert Heinecken (1931-2006) . They are part of some of his most famous work, a series called “Are You Rea” taken in 1966-67.