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Campaign '16 Photo August 9, 2016

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.

Sports Focus Photo August 8, 2016

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.

Christa Olson Photo August 3, 2016

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.

Politics Photo August 2, 2016

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.

Campaign '16 Photo

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.

Campaign '16 Photo August 1, 2016

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.

Campaign '16 Photo July 29, 2016

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.

Campaign '16 Photo July 27, 2016

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.

Campaign '16 Photo July 26, 2016

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.

International Focus Photo July 24, 2016

Pokemon Syria

Embellishing hell on earth with the blue character reminds us that war is not just slideshow fodder or background noise.

Campaign '16 Photo July 22, 2016

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.

Politics Photo July 21, 2016

GOP Convention: Regression to the Mean. Ugly Mean.

The hostility of Donald Trump has permeated the tone and tenor of the GOP convention.

Campaign '16 Photo July 20, 2016

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.

Campaign '16 Photo July 18, 2016

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.

Robert Hariman Photo July 15, 2016

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.

Protest Focus Photo July 14, 2016

Baton Rouge to Dallas: Our Twitter/Instagram Review

From Baton Rouge to St. Paul to Dallas, these have been two extraordinarily difficult weeks in the civil life of America. Here is a timeline of tweets and posts of what we saw and thought over this wrenching time.

Culture Focus Photo July 13, 2016

Baton Rouge: Channeling the Fire with Amazing Grace

Mindful of the smoldering racial and political atmosphere in the country right now, the photo's symbolism reaches far beyond a single instance of goodwill.