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President Obama Photo July 21, 2010

Obama OutFoxed

When is Obama going to just stop obsessing on these guys -- first in hopes for the better and, now, in fear of the worst (especially when the far-right noise has to do with race)?

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Race Focus Photo July 20, 2010

Yeah, You THINK You Know Shirley Sherrod…

On quick inspection of this damning photo from Farm Aid 2002, seems pretty clear Shirley Sharrod, then representing the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, advocated returning the United States to the Indians, doesn't it?

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BP's (Photoshop) Command Center: Why the Fake Photo, Guys, Why?

In the top scene, you have the doctored photo BP posted of their command center in the "spill response" section of their website - now disappeared. Just below it, you have the actual version BP has since posted after being busted for filling in empty screens with views...

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Terror Focus Photo

Palin Will Not Be Refudiated on Ground Zero Mosque

It wouldn't surprise me, in fact, if the rightwing fanatics insisted on having those pieces of landing gear that broke through the roof of the coat factory on 9/11 (if they even happened to have kept it) "safely returned" to some purity-tested American hands.

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Race Focus Photo July 19, 2010

What the NAACP Sees, and the Media Doesn’t, at Those Tea Party Rallies

If the NAACP is feeling a little paranoid, it's because the Tea Party has become a vehicle for white fears and coded (and visually, at least, not-so-coded) scapegoating as the country does becomes more brown and education and real opportunity does stays down.

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Why a Penny Saved is Not Always a Penny Earned

In the days following 9/11 we were told that it was our civic duty to consume in order to keep the economy on its feet; the now prolonged recession makes even this limited civic responsibility impossible for many to honor; and for others, well, as the Times reporter notes,...

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Brendan Hoffman: About Those Haitian Smiles

The second reason I wanted to return to Brendan Hoffman's recent images from Haiti is to reinforce the picture of the Haitian character. What we don't see in these two photographs, in the smiles, are a people either in denial of their circumstances or consumed to the core by...

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Women and Gender Focus Photo July 16, 2010

Style Expert Beck See Michelle's Oil Concern as a Put On

I do think Michelle's outfit that day (whether a less- or more conscious choice) is interesting. If anything, though, I think Beck got it exactly backwards.

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Disaster Focus Photo July 15, 2010

An Economic Model of Greed (Or, The Legacy of Gordon Gekko)

The first and more obvious point concerns what this photograph (and others like it from the Texas City explosion and the leak in Alaska) actually shows. The evidence of the impending disaster of Deepwater Horizon was literally before our eyes at least as early as 2005, but we...

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Hello, I Must Be Going (…Or, Did I Just Hear Someone Say "Hitler, Obama, Lenin" 10,000 Times?)

Simple story about taking down a billboard? Seems to me the Tea Party gets to have it both ways.

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Your Turn: Vets Armed and Dangerous

I was interested in your read on this U.S. veteran/survivor of the Afghan miasma.

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Women and Gender Focus Photo July 14, 2010

Czech Them Out! European Politicos Strike a Pose

Although these photos would be standard fare in Maxim magazine, their appearance in the typically staid Wall Street Journal is rather surprising—apparently the WSJ is just doing its due diligence covering the latest political trend. The photos represent the efforts of the Czech Republic’s Public Affairs Party...

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Photo July 13, 2010

Give That Man a Medal!

I rather like the awkward, deer in the headlights gaze that the Haitian President shares with us. If anything, it lends an official sense of dissonance to the action in the foreground as the CNN franchise, Anderson Cooper, greets Bill Clinton after winning a medal from the Haitian...

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Campaign '12 Photo

Palin's Grizzly Mammas (Or: But Enough About You, What About Me?)

If Sarah Palin's new web video is about a stampede of new conservative female candidates, try to find one in the piece. If the video is about female empowerment, there's little doubt as to who's on the power trip (or the Momma Bear).

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Photo July 12, 2010

First Mom, On Dealing With Spills

Maybe, with the old familiar map, combined with the amiable, sort of professorial look of the tourist board guy talking to, yes, the First Mom, the photo is almost the visual equivalent of comfort food.

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The Spanish Victory: A Larger Lesson?

The question is, does the victory of the Spanish team in the face of the thuggery of the Dutch convey a larger resonance in the world right now?

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Brendan Hoffman: Haiti, Six Months Later

Photographer Brendan Hoffman returns to Haiti, six months after the earthquake.

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President Obama Photo July 10, 2010

Flickr Politics: Scott Brown Edition

With mid-terms in mind, it's toning down the precedent and reducing the star power of GOP insurgent and Obama-upstaging upset stud, Scott Brown.

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