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Alabama, and Other Blazes: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
Doug Jones's victory in Alabama, the sexual harassment and abuse awakening, and the massive wildfires in Southern California highlighted the week.
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No Moore: Have We Reached the Cowboy Tipping Point?
Does Roy Moore's defeat finally strike a blow for character, substance and real qualifications? Is America tired of so-called leaders playing to the TV?
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Visual Scholars Read the Fake Russian Ads - Part 2
We asked seven visual scholars to analyze one of the sponsored ads Russian trolls ran on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election. This is part two.
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Watch Nancy Burson's Latest GIF Morphing Trump with "Rocket Man"
The GIF and the picture are about Trump's identification with nemeses, and about scaling the Mt. Olympus for autocrats.
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Visual Scholars Read the Fake Russian Ads - Part 1
We asked seven visual scholars to analyze one of the sponsored ads Russian trolls ran on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election.
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7 Takes on TIME's "Person of the Year" Silence Breakers Cover
In effect, Trump did make the "Person of the Year" cover. On TIME’s striking POY Silence Breaker Cover.
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Reading the Pictures Is More Essential Than Ever: Support Us
Almost a decade-and-a-half since we began, we are the rare organization promoting both visual literacy and media literacy.
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Trump Is Disturbed, But We Always Look Past It
He’s been acting even crazier and more deluded, the silence and enabling only amplifying the danger.
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Tax Cuts to Die For: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
In spite of the momentous scope and dire consequences of the tax plan, it's remarkable how little heed the media and the public paid to it.
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Grinch Parade: Our First Trump-Era Holiday Roundup
In the age of Trump, political hysteria and destruction does not take a day off.
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Franken, Harassment, and the Power of a Picture
In Franken's case, his indiscretion may fundamentally differ from the acts of Weinstein or Roy Moore, but he's damned by the photo.
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Power and Abuse: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
This week, sexual abuse and the waning Trump Asia trip dominated the visual news. And it’s not like Trump and the harassment issue were that distinct, as the Der Spiegel cover relates.
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From Da Vinci to Mnuchins, Obscene Wealth as Gospel
The era of billionaire populism is going to be remembered with pictures like this.
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Pop Goes Newsweek: Sexual Harassment Cover Gone Wrong
The Newsweek cover perfectly illustrates the juvenile, adolescent male snickerings that have floated around locker rooms, golf courses and topless bars for years.
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Peking Trump: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
From Trump's yawning Asia trip, to the Democratic election sweep, to still another horrific gun massacre, it's our visual roundup of the week.
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The Best Visual Response to the NYC Truck Attack
With the White House immediately politicizing the New York truck attack, the picture serves as a critical counterweight.
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Indictment Special: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
This week’s visual news was dominated by the first charges brought in the Trump Campaign Russia investigation.
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There's #TakeAKnee, and There's Take a Knee
Of course, we were owed a better caption. At the same time, though, it makes for an interesting experiment to see how much we assume.
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Compounding the Weinstein Outrage: How to Visually Cover Sexual Assault
Lurid details and graphic accounts in the Weinstein case do not compensate for the simple fact: there is no adequate imagery to testify to sexual assault.
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Throwing Russian Flags at Trump
Maybe the Trump flag attack would have been more effective six months ago when the Russia story still dominated the news. Otherwise, all it hit was teflon.
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