A member of the Louisiana State Wildlife Response Team cleans oil off of a pelican in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on May 15. The Clean Gulf Associates Mobile Wildlife Rehabilitation Station continues it work rescuing animals affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. (U.S. Navy and Deepwater Horizon Response/Justin Stumberg)
Alexandra Gutierrez
Alexandra Gutierrez is a reporter based in the Aleutian Islands. She is also former associate web editor of The American Prospect.
The Little Picture: A Garden Stroll.
Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Afghan President Hamid Karzai took a tour the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, where the idea for the United Nations was developed. Roses were smelled; jokes were told.
The Little Picture: The Overseer.
Elizabeth Warren, Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel, attends the Time 100 gala. The magazine has a particularly good cover this month.
The Little Picture: Karzai’s Come to Town.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met yesterday in Washington. Intense. (ISAF/Chad J. McNeeley)
The Little Picture: Moving Forward on the Gulf Coast.
Today, executives from BP and Transocean testified before Congress on the Gulf Coast oil leak. Cleanup and containment efforts are still underway. (Flickr/U.S. Coast Guard Eighth District External Affairs)
The Little Picture: It’s Kagan.
Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan sits with the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, for whom she clerked.
The Stark Reality of Defense Contracting.
Robert Farley and Davida H. Isaacs get wonky on Iron Man 2: In Iron Man 2, billionaire industrialist Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) risks billion-dollar pieces of equipment to impress guests at a birthday party — a big mistake for a defense contractor. After all, Stark’s reckless debauchery provides the perfect pretext for the U.S. […]
The Little Picture: The White House and the Oil Mess.
Barack Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met yesterday to discuss the Gulf Coast oil disaster. (White House/Pete Souza)
The Little Picture: The “British Obama.”
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg visits Watford to launch the 2010 General Election campaign, on April 6. The United Kingdom’s general election will be held May 6. (Fishnik/Alex Folkes)

