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The Mind of Skinheads: What the Racist is Expected to Look Like
The photos suggest that racism can be depicted by signs of gender, sexuality, and class, and if people don’t live or look like that, they must not be.
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The Cosby Verdict and the Face of the Policewoman on the Courthouse Steps
Beyond the subordination of women, the screenshots testify that that these are days beyond words.
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Black Diamond: Our Best Social Media of the Week
This week, domestic terror took center stage.
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Comey as Metaphor: Our Social Media Roundup of the Week
Looking at the most striking pictures from the last five days, greater light and clarity seems to be the theme.
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On that Viral Tornado Photo--a Sign of the Times
Public imagination takes hold of a photo for its own reasons, the force of interest also reflecting something of the times.
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London and a Fake Suicide Vest
The biggest threat of this attack was the potential to create outsized effects on the cheap. A fake vest or a real one is part of sorting the difference.
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Climate Carnage: Our Social Media Roundup of the Week
Yes, this pic from Trump's climate announcement was all the buzz--about small mindedness, among other things.
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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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