Hasta La Ideas

It’s Election Day, and political types are everywhere you look, including magazine covers. The November 9 issue of New York features Marco Grob‘s Rorschach blot of a photo of Nancy Pelosi: wide-eyed, intense, and grinning in gumball-sized pearl earrings. An all-caps headline across her forehead brands the House Speaker “The Most ________ Woman in the United States*,” with the asterisk inviting readers to fill in the blank with their choice of adjectives: powerful, reviled, effective, oblivious, sincere, plastic, or misunderstood. Less open to interpretation is the cover of the latest issue of Fortune, which has President Obama seeing the world through the distinctively hued Catull o’s of the Google logo for its feature, “Obama & Google: A Love Story” (the photo is by Ben Baker, with the spectacles added by the digital wizards at Splashlight). Inside—but alas, not online—the piece opens with a dynamite full-page illustration by Stephen Kroninger of Obama embracing the Google logo amidst an explosion of hearts. “The President relies on Google execs for tech and economic advice,” reads the dek. “But Obama’s own regulators are scrutinizing the online-ad behemoth: Is the romance starting to sour?” Read on here to find out if there’s trouble in paradise.

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