The Jeff Sessions Attorney General Hearing in 7 Photos
As it turned out, the amount of political and racial baggage Sessions brought to the table generated plenty of visual noise.
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Hello Orwell: On the Congressman’s Kid Who Dabbed Paul Ryan
In the new atmosphere, the dab can be seen in the same register as the Kaepernick knee down.
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Bernie Commandeers a Trump Tweet
What Bernie did is profound. He captured a Trump tweet, a telling one, the same way you would capture and display an infected mosquito in a jar.
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A Year Ends, A Year Begins: Our Best From Twitter and Instagram
Hypervigilance does not make for the cheeriest mood.
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Reading the Pictures: Best Posts of 2016
Enjoy our best posts of 2016…. January MLK: March 25, 1965 Photo: AP What makes the MLK photo seem so immediate and contemporary is how much it feels like a selfie. For a news photo, it’s unusually intimate even now. February On that Startling Flint Photo of 3 African-American...
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The Politics of Xmas: Our RTP Twitter and Instagram Favs of the Season
Yes, it's like November 8th has taken over everything. The key is not to lose your wit/s.
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On the Photos of the Russian Ambassador’s Assassination in Ankara: Our Tweet Thread
The overlap between online and social media, and war and terror is so complex, it's hard to make sense of what we're looking at.
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The New Foreboding: Our Twitter and Instagram Favs of the Week
This round up of our best social media this week is colored by the ominous presidential transition and what it portends for the future.
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The Eventful Photo Leading NYT Election Hacking Story
The photo of this Watergate-era artifact goes a long way in tackling how Russian hackers pulled this off.
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Meet the Racists!
If the racists are trying to mask their hatred, the NY Times story makes for the kind of advertising you just can't buy.
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The Evil Nobody Saw in the Trump – Hitler “Person of the Year” Nonsense
A more viable comparison with the Hitler cover comes from Kander’s photos of Pence and Bannon.
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On the Mirrors at Standing Rock
The symbolism of a mirror capturing law enforcement at the top of a ridge seems pretty straightforward, right?
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Culture Shift: Our Twitter/Instagram Favs of the Week or So
The culture is changing quickly in response to the presidential earthquake. We found these photos actually shapeshifting.
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Tabloid President: A Brilliant Trump Era Snapshot
To 56 million people, "fresh air" has nothing to do with NPR. Want to know what it means for Trump to take a stand? Well, you're looking at it.
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Trump’s Office Shrine: The Table, the FOX Interview and Self-Obsession
The segment of the FOX Trump interview proves so telling, it could be mistaken for a behavioral experiment.
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Best Wishes, Thanksgiving 2016
To you and yours on this day of thanks from Reading the Pictures.
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What We Can Learn or Confirm from Trump’s Visit with Japan’s Prime Minister
We can start with the fact that the only pictures of the visit were made and released to the press by the Japanese.
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Media Normalizing: Reading the Ryan/Trump Speaker’s Balcony Photo Op
The impression is that Ryan and Trump, in completely normal fashion, are sharing the governing landscape. But that is not what is happening at all.
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