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Harvey Unprecedented? What About 2 Weeks Ago in Sierra Leone?
Although Harvey's impact seems to be mercifully smaller in ways than recent monster storms overseas, these events call for larger ways to scale them.
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American Refugees: On that Harvey Portrait by Alyssa Schukar
In one incredibly lashing from the heavens, we now face our own refugee crisis.
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Eclipse as the One Bright Spot: Our Roundup of the Week
The tepid, reluctant Afghanistan reboot. Phoenix. The ongoing impact of Charlottesville. The best we could say this week was, thank heavens for the eclipse.
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Phoenix Jesus: On Scott Mahaskey's Trump Rally Protest Photo
M. Scott Mahaskey's photo taken outside Trump's rally in Phoenix on Tuesday night is as audacious, and biblical, as the times.
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In Gratitude, Our Five Favs of the Eclipse
With disks and circles the rule of the day, I liked this shot because it made me laugh out loud.
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Charlottesville and Trump: Our Social Media Roundup
This week's round up is dedicated to the brazen white supremacist march in Charlottesville, and Trump's fanning of those flames.
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Posturing, Nuclear and Otherwise: Our Social Media Roundup
Sometime posturing is phony, other times it's blunt. How disheartening that the war bluster falls between the two.
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Guns and Sex: Hottest Political Pic of the Day
The link between power and sex (or power AS sex) is right grippingly, gropingly there.
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Law and Disorder: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup
Our weekly visual roundup looks at the new White House Chief-of-Staff, General John Kelly, coverage of culture and real wars, and more effective photos of the environment.
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Healthcare Meets the Breadline
As healthcare frays and political abuse further breaks down the system, these scenes become a lot more recognizable.
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Mooch and Other Dramas: Our Weekly Social Media Roundup
Scaramucci's showboating and belligerence culminated in his going postal on Wednesday night. And that was only a fraction of the drama this week.
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Feeling Alt-Right: Hate and Shame In Online Right-Wing Imagery
How meme-makers use *humor* to exploit the grey-zone in social media guidelines meant to distinguish hate speech from legitimate political expression.
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Portrait Week: Our Social Media Roundup
From DC to Antarctica, Russia-gate to Iraq, it was a week for political portraits.
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On that Creepy Don Jr. Elevator Photo
The photo can be seen as a premonition. It mirrors the surreptitiousness of the Russia meeting and the fact Don Jr. isn't so swaggery anymore.
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Putin, G20 & Other Bodies: Our Social Media Roundup
Our roundup this week is all about posturing. Trump-Putin scored the most attention, but physical acts were striking everywhere we looked.
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Timely Paintings: World Leaders as Refugees
I'm fully on board with the focus on power -- especially star power.
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Importance of Seeing the Trauma: The Video of Diamond Reynolds and Daughter in Back of a Police Car
Analyzing the video of Diamond Reynolds and her daughter detained in the back of a police car after an officer shot and killed her boyfriend, Philando Castile.
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Health and Care: Our Social Media Roundup of the Week
Our roundup this week focuses on the healthcare fight and the treatment of women, and how the two issues ended up intertwined.
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On the Failed Rubio - Ivanka Bot Hug
Given her meticulously-constructed public image and the way she is constantly composed, Ivanka just doesn't have awkward moments.
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Judgement Daze: Our Social Media Weekly Roundup
The major stories this week seemed to all involve critical votes or verdicts. Most came out badly for the most vulnerable.
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