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International Focus Photo December 25, 2014

Our Person of the Year: The Rebel Fighter

More in the realm of coolness, so much for hearts and minds.

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Ferguson MO Photo

Looking Back on '14 With Compassion and Depth

I've been continually moved this year by imagery that took difficult situations and found a deeper human element.

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Culture Focus Photo December 23, 2014

It's One of the Best Pictures of the Year Because…

If media skews to the dark side, the gift of the photo is the reminder that life is how you look at it.

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Wedding Photography and Gun Fights: Quite the Timing, No?

The way guns can so quickly refigure domestic life, I wonder if members of this wedding party appreciated just how loaded this pictures is.

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Ferguson MO Photo December 21, 2014

NYPD Apostrophe "T"

If pro-police demonstrators were seen wearing t-shirts mockingly pushing back on the #ICan'tBreathe meme, yesterday's act has completely altered the atmosphere.

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Business Focus Photo December 19, 2014

Theater of War: Quick Takes on Sony's Surrender

Somewhere, Borat is laughing his ass off.

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Eco Watch Photo December 18, 2014

Photos of the Year '14: Climate Change

Like a sociologist (and a humorist), Sullivan captures a sense of the drought that extends to the whole of suburbia.

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Bush Focus Photo December 17, 2014

Jeb's Presidential Facebook Call All About the Profile Pic

With a more rainbow approach to America, the visual tonic is: we're not your father's GOP.

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Media Focus Photo December 16, 2014

Furry Friends Meet Cheap Clicks. (Or, the Rabid Proliferation of Year End Photo Lists.)

In the year end fight for eyeballs, it's a jungle out there.

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Faith Focus Photo

ISIS Hysteria Meets War on Christmas: On the Sydney Hostage Siege Screenshot

Gender-wise, the photo surely did have a voyeuristic and almost sado-sexual vibe to it.

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Bush Focus Photo December 15, 2014

With Cheney, You Always Could Tell the Book From the Cover

It’s like the media is discovering anew the man lives in a parallel universe when the cover of his 2011 biography said it all.

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Media Focus Photo December 14, 2014

About the Photo (I Mean, Photos) of the Undercover Cop Pulling His Gun on Oakland Protesters

Does the photo of the undercover cop pointing his gun at a photographer come with more social and editorial baggage than most can handle?

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Business Focus Photo December 13, 2014

The Glass Ceiling and Gwyneth Paltrow's Legs

Of the 25 people named in the photo, only five are women and only one is a prime mover in an industrial company.

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Bush Focus Photo December 10, 2014

The Senate CIA Torture Report and Our Favorite Rice Photo of All Time

Given the explosive nature of the torture program and the need for deniability, the ability to lull both the public and the media represented the highest form of art.

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Business Focus Photo December 9, 2014

Punching Out a Monet

With such disparity in our otherwise elegant world, the puncture seems fitting of the times.

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Almost as Striking as LeBron’s “I Can’t Breathe” T-Shirt in Brooklyn Last Night? The “Ferguson Jump Rope."

By pure coincidence, the piece of gear seemed to frame LeBron’s protest as a Ferguson echo too.

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Protest Focus Photo December 7, 2014

Garner Aftermath: The Most Poignant "Die-Ins"

There have been so many "die ins" across the country, the newswires have been full of them. These three particularly stood out to me.

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