Some Thoughts on the Louisiana Flood Pictures
It's hard not to look at the photos of the historic flooding in Louisiana outside the frame of the presidential campaign and our national identity.
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The Art and Technology of this Year’s Olympic Photographs
Looking at this year's Olympic photos, it's impossible not to take awe at the creativity and imagination of the news photography.
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Trump: Understanding the Meltdown
Donald Trump is coming apart and the largest factor in the calamity is his crippling narcissism.
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Far Right Pounces on 6 Month Old Hillary (Porch) Stumble
Hillary haters love to pounce on every visible sign that Mrs. Clinton has an actual human body.
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Let the Games Begin! Our Rio2016 Opening Roundup
These are some of the images that caught our eye in the first few days of the Olympic games. We're hoping to be as playful and positive (or satirical, at least) as we can.
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The Visual Politics of Empty Shelves
Photographs of bare stores and starving families fit too neatly into us and them, imagining whole political systems as economically and morally bankrupt.
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Nancy Burson’s What If Trump Were: Black-Asian-Hispanic-Middle Eastern-Indian
This animated GIF was created by artist Nancy Burson to consider how Donald Trump’s mind works and to stir reflection from the mogul's malignant soul.
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The One Bit of Substance in Those Risqué NY Post Melania Trump Photos
In viciously beating up on people while bringing ultimate shame on himself for doing it, this picture fits the Trump M.O. to a T.
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Trump vs the Khans in 3 Pairs of Pictures
If Trump's attack on the Khans is beyond offensive, the pictures it conjures are just as outrageous and hypocritical.
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Hugs and Air Kisses: 2 Conventions in 6 Pictures
If the Democratic and Republican conventions produced thousands of media images, we've boiled them down to three pair.
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Bernie Or Bust? What the Pix of Defiant Delegates Really Have to Say
As much as the media sees the Sanders delegates calling it quits, anger and disappointment is not an obvious indicator of future behavior.
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All in the Family: Democratic Convention Day One
There was plenty of family angst between Bernie's insurgents, Hillary's followers and party regulars. Until the evening's lightening strike.
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Pokemon Syria
Embellishing hell on earth with the blue character reminds us that war is not just slideshow fodder or background noise.
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Look of the RNC: Bold Prints, Neckties, and Handguns, of Course
I've been thinking about what it means to dress the part at the Republican National Convention.
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GOP Convention: Regression to the Mean. Ugly Mean.
The hostility of Donald Trump has permeated the tone and tenor of the GOP convention.
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Republican Convention ’16 — A Distortion Field
What I realize I'm witnessing is a distortion field. Or, a political party convention in a fun house mirror. These fine photographers address the disorientation.
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Baton Rouge, the Convention and the Trump Show
Ben Lowy's photo anticipates a call-and-response between Cleveland, Baton Rouge and Dallas by a newly themed “law-and-order" Trump.
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Into the Twilight Zone in Nice
The world seems to be pitching into another reality, one that is more unreal than real, both present and still to come, and defined primarily by separation and violence, and by madness and helplessness.
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