The Season’s Most Cynical Political Costume Photo
Of course, it's not outside the realm of possibility the family of this kid understood how xenophobic Trump is.
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Reading the Hillary Clinton House Benghazi Testimony Photos
While the media is swimming in a river of Hillary faces from the House Benghazi hearing, I had some thoughts on some slightly less trafficked photos.
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Drawing a Contrast: The Democratic Debate in Las Vegas
As it turned out, what was probably most significant about last night's Democratic debate was its comparison to the Republican campaign.
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Vegas Debate Preview: Hillary Clinton’s Odd Trump Tower Photo-Op
On the eve of 2015's first Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, this Clinton photo op enables the mogul to tower over her party's event, too.
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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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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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Greenwald on the Depiction of Trump and Ramos as Mirrors
The image seems to specifically key off Greenwald’s criticism of a WAPO article drawing an equivalence between Ramos and Trump as provocateurs.
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On the TIME Trump – American Eagle Shoot … Beyond the Ha, Ha, Ha
If you get too (or completely) distracted by Trump, either through offendedness or amusement from the farce, you’re going to miss the deeper take-away here.
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Campaign 2016: The Rapture
If we can be less dogmatic for a second about our own jadedness, what is divine is that hope is still out there.
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The First GOP16 Cattle Call: Our 3 Pix of the Night
In this troglodyte moment, you can see the boys behind Ms. Kelly back there tittering.
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GOP Hopefuls Starting to Blur
As we slog our way into deep summer, the unwieldy Republican cavalcade is becoming quite the spectacle.
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Where Trump Meets John Wayne
If the personal analogy falls laughable short, the parallel is in the audacity.
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Photojournalism on Acid? — Google’s Neural Networks and a Post Deleted after WaPo's Armadillo- and Dog-Faced Treatment of the GOP Pack
Here we see GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump addressing reporters in an Alice in Wonderland world where loud bursts of patterns and color turn faces and neckties into dogs, ears into eyeballs, and hair into turkey vultures and armadillos.
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Are We Seeing A New Level of Candidness from Campaign Photographers This Year?
I'm grateful to Brooks for this shot, as much as I'm hopeful this candidness blossoms into a real trend.
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On Those Presidential Campaign Selfies
What a twist of fate that the phenomenon of mobile photography would force presidential candidates -- on-the-spot, and over-and-over-again -- to have to actually cater to the will of the people.
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