Trump the Forlorn: On an Unusual Arlington Portrait
Maybe this is Trump showing the full effect of almost six months bearing the presidential mantle. Maybe he’s about done in.
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Love to Damocles: Our Trump First Foreign Trip Grand Tour
If Trump's first foreign trip was successful in any way, it was only in its Groucho notes and the respite from the Russian tornado back home.
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Beyond Manchester: A Typical Terror-Filled Monday
Perhaps the most insidious impact of the attack on Manchester is the narrowing of western attention.
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Saudis Up First: Trump With Extra Butter
One the first leg of Trump’s first international trip, the Saudis completely outdid themselves patronizing the patronizable.
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Trump Jumps Shark: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup
Looking back at our Twitter feed this week, we were drawn to Trump's reality gap and the photographic embrace of every "not normal" telegraph.
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Beyond Compassion: On Photos of Syrian Photographer Rescuing Child
Visual evidence of Aleppo's horrors has not produced compassion fatigue but doubt in the ability to intervene. That is what the rescue photos demonstrate.
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Trump, The Leak and What I Missed in the Russian White House Photos the First Time
Surprised Trump leaked secrets to the Russians? Well, in the photos that circulated most widely last week, it is hard to tell they had a meeting.
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Burning Through the Teflon: Social Media of the Week
We were seeing scenes of clear ineptitude and stress from the White House this week, pictures of real political damage (and ammunition for opponents down the road).
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Russian Oval Office Pix: Team Trump Done in by “Dual Hatter”
Absurdly, the White House never saw a threat in the Russian Oval Office photos.
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Combat Photographer’s Last Photo a Resounding Media Failure
The rush to publish a combat photographer’s last photo led to a fundamental lack of context and a widespread, culturally tone-deaf photo editing failure.
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Mixed Messages: Our Best Social Media This Week
France, Trump, North Korea, the border. A picture’s worth a thousand questions.
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At Trump’s Invitation: Revisiting Pulitzer-Winning Philippine Drug War Photos
When Daniel Berehulak's Philippine drug war photos won a Pulitzer last month, what was also on my mind was how they related to the homefront.
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Trump, King and What’s in an Overcoat?
Too often, it's that simple thing right in front of your eyes that gets completely overlooked, even if it has plenty to say.
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Zombie Trumps at the Border: Risk Goes Both Ways
Analyzing the power in Verónica Cárdenas’s photos of immigrants wearing Trump masks.
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Ivanka and the Settling Mess: Our Social Media Roundup
What with the 100 day milestone and his manic push to put anything on his resume, this was another week of wall-to-wall Trump. Still, I wonder if the tone is shifting.
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So, Who WAS Kellyanne Taking That Couch Gate Photo For??
Even as Trump's first 100 days have been analyzed into oblivion, this Couch Gate question is still floating around out there.
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On That Stunning Tefillin Photo and the Marks that Remain
The verses inside the tefillin represent an eternal relationship that has already spanned thousands of years. Skin operates on a much shorter, mortal calendar.
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Visual Politics and the March for Science: What Caught our Eye
As much as science is taken for granted, the point of the march is that science is essential, that it is literally everything.
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