The Plague of Opposition Lawmakers
There's no way I can look at this without also thinking about our own, incendiary GOP Congresspeople.
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On Norbert Baksa’s “Migrant Chic” Fashion Shoot
What Baksa has done may differ in degree, but not in kind with how his clients and the news media are pushing the edge.
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The Umpqua College Shooting: One More in a Sea of Vigils
In the aftermath of the school shooting, these long view photos of candlelight vigils capture us coming together as well as fading away.
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Reading the New York Times Magazine Trump Balloon Cover
What the media still doesn’t get in singling out Donald Trump for ridicule.
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The Trump “Obama Muslim” Moment the Media Totally Missed
In implicating Trump as a bigot and, by association, the audience as sheep, the photo media missed the most curious moment of this dispiriting campaign.
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Hippie Bashing: New Photos at TIME Keep New Age on the Fringe
Perhaps a threat to consumer culture, these new photos at TIME ridicule yoga, mediation and spiritual practices, framing them as still somehow “far out."
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Our Favorite Obama – Putin UN “War of the Rosés” Picture
While most media highlighted more manly-man U.S.-Russia stand-off pics from the Secretary-General’s UN luncheon, we’re voting for this as our #1.
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On that Photo of the Pope and a Prisoner Holding Hands in Philadelphia
Condensing his visit to one powerful scene, the photo captures Pope Francis's challenge to America and its uncompromising political class to reach out.
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The Pope’s US Trip as it Touched on Race
Although the Pope typically addresses injustice in the context of class, his concern over racial strife was implicit in those key quotations from MLK.
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The Pope’s Congressional Override
What was straight out of a parallel universe was the way our senior legislators, the polarized of the polarized, reacted to the Pope's confrontation in a completely apolitical way.
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From D.C., and The Atlantic / Echosight Project: Mashing the American Dream
In this complex photograph, we see threads of American exceptionalism as well as reaching on the Washington Mall.
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Pope in America: It’s Showtime!
Poverty? Racial tolerance? Social Justice? For the media over the next few days, it’s Hollywood, baby.
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What Lesson Suspending Kids for Wearing Confederate Flag?
Does the suspension of Christiansburg, Virginia teenagers actually undermine academic discipline and miss a perfect teaching moment?
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News Photos as Military Promo: Prepping for the Next Good War?
This New York Times photo feature is less about military propaganda than it is about selling the next "good war."
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Nate Silver Closes the Curtain on Hillary
Since the aim is to challenge the news narrative framing Clinton, the choice to lead with this photo is both puzzling and problematic.
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The GOP’s Reagan Library Debate With the Sound Off
Our read on the visual highlights of the presidential debate, including the Donald - Jeb, Donald - Carly and just The Donald show.
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Migrant Optics: Targeting Hungary (and Conjuring the Dark Evil of WWII)
Has Hungary become the visual fall guy for a crisis with no good humanitarian answer?
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Geekfest, and the Blurry Lines Between Commercial, Documentary and News Photography
I have to say that, up until the past year or so, I wasn’t seeing a whole lot of news photos that were this lush.
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