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.
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GOP Convention: Regression to the Mean. Ugly Mean.
The hostility of Donald Trump has permeated the tone and tenor of the GOP convention.
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Thank You Jesus For Lord President Trump
To observe the disconnect between Trump and evangelicals, illustrations are not hard to find.
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On Obama’s Tears
Obama's tears not only give Americans permission to feel and to grieve over what’s been confined to a political battle, but also to weep.
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Best Angles on Obama’s Visit to Federal Prison
Obama's presence transforms these inmates from pariahs to men with stories; men who made mistakes; men who might not even be here were it not for the draconian treatment of non-violent drug offenders.
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Why You’ve Gotta Love Heisler’s Photo of Trump’s Announcement
If the GOP has set a particularly low bar this presidential cycle, my early sense of the photojournalism is the opposite.
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Reality Show President: Inside the White House PR Machine
In producing this just-under 12 minute video, ReasonTV draws on quotes from BagNews to illustrate how thoroughly the White House controls Obama's visual image.
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The Pet Goat, Revisited. (Or: The 9/11 Photo I Never Saw Before.)
Given the intense criticism Bush endured for not responding immediately to that cataclysmic event, why is this photo now enshrined in the Bush Library's 9/11 photo gallery?
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Photo Ops and Staging: Beyond White House Access, the Larger Issue is What We Have Access To
The current antagonism between photographers and the White House needs to be broadened beyond the simple question of access. It is time to look at the bigger picture, and make the photo-op as much the subject, so we have a visual record of how events and issues are...
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White House Flickr and Keeping the Benghazi Story Straight
When a photograph is used to illustrate a point rather than to record an event or person, that visual explanation encompasses every element of the photo. Even elements the White House may not want to emphasize.
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DNC Final: The Obamas, the Optics, and the Politics of Intimacy
This is not about me, it’s about you. If the Obamas are about anything, they’re about breaking down the (perceptual) distance between themselves and the American people. They are way dialed in to what’s essential and also what’s popular. The are about doing what they can as often as...
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Over Netanyahu’s Shoulder: A (Telephoto) Analysis of the Prime Minister’s U.N. Speech Edits
If Netanyahu, as he scribbled away at the rhetorical edges, was feeling a sense of urgency about the opportunity for peace, its seems more motivated out of fear that the Palestinians had scored a coup with their statehood application than anything else.
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The Deeper Price of Censorship: White House Nixes Photo of bin Laden’s Body
We feel today's action by the Administration must lead to the end of a false assumption, taken for granted by the President and leaders in both parties, that the snuffing out a critical and essential photo is somehow a zero-sum game.
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How to Win Friends and Be Influenced By People
What I can't understand is how much the media narrative not only overlooks Bush's fantasy friendship as a key to Putin's empowerment, but how much the two share the same ideology when it comes to power.
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