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Reading the Pictures
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December 23, 2019
Christmas Back With a Vengeance: Jesus, Mary and Joseph in Cages
October 1, 2017
Reading the Pictures Salon: Michael Shaw and Pete Souza in Conversation at Photoville ’17
September 29, 2017
Puerto Rico is Not a Country: Our Roundup of the Week
August 24, 2017
Phoenix Jesus: On Scott Mahaskey’s Trump Rally Protest Photo
April 3, 2025
Signaling Strangelove: The New Yorker Cover’s Brilliant Take on SignalGate
March 12, 2025
Trump’s Mugshot as White House Power Play
March 5, 2025
The State of Disunion
February 25, 2025
Trump’s Village People Takeover – Why This Matters Now
February 22, 2025
Chatting The Pictures: Old Glory, Trump, and the L.A. Fire Disasters
February 17, 2025
The Visual Politics of the LA Fires
February 5, 2025
A Portrait that Dares to Expose Musk’s Insanity
January 23, 2025
Scenes from the Coronation of King Donald II: A Visual Guide to American Autocracy
December 30, 2024
A Visually Rhythmic Journey Through a Year’s Most Striking Book Covers
December 19, 2024
Democracy’s Darkroom: Tell It, Read It, Decode It, Survive
December 10, 2024
What’s in a “Top 100 Photos of the Year” List?
December 1, 2024
Chatting the Pictures: A Telling Photo from Howard University on Election Night 2024
November 12, 2024
The Great Shattering: Scenes from America’s Political and Psychic Electoral Rupture
November 2, 2024
Harris vs. Trump: On Gender, Power, and the Future of America
October 13, 2024
Shutter Shock: The Photos that Expose Trump’s Mind in Disarray
October 9, 2024
Chatting the Pictures: In Campaign’s Closing Weeks, Trump’s Incoherence Takes Center Stage
September 24, 2024
Springfield’s Haitian Immigrants in the Light
September 13, 2024
The 13 Most Telling Photographs of the Harris-Trump Presidential Debate