Our Take on the Active Duty Homecoming Kiss — The Gay Male Edition (Finally)
Perhaps the most provocative aspect of the photo, however, is the fact that it's the guy in uniform who presents as the more submissive, or what many would see as the more "feminine" role.
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Back to X-raying Romney
BizWeek sees Romney as layers of surface. Willard meets Springsteen meets Village People?
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Arizona/Michigan Final: You Will Have Mitt to Kick Around Some More
The GOP soap opera continues.
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The Santorum Ministry
I'm wondering how much Santorum's ever more narrow, fundamentalist message is a clever strategy to rally America's Christian conservatives, or he's ultimately more about divinity than delegates.
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Cairo, Damascus and the Surface of Things
With photographers risks their lives to photograph the political events of our time, we might take more time to notice the details.
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Romney, Daytona and the CEO Circuit
If a lot of the media still thought the pic of the day involved Romney coming, by chance, upon a Santorum-sponsored car, still others accented Romney's "CEO problem" by leading with the shot of Mitt and the Sprint boss.
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Photo Prize Update: Afghan War As Groundhog Day Trauma Loop
Over this almost four year photographic span, the message on its face is that the Afghan campaign continues to suck the life force out of America and its troops.
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Romney's Stadium Daze
While others attribute the media angle to the power of social networking or the fact that Romney leaked most of the address over the previous week, the real explanation though comes down to a much simpler equation.
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Unprobed Rage
Maybe what's so striking about the photo is how Margaret Doyle's reaction should come as such a surprise.
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The Campaign Fundraiser Photo Blackout (Or: How Far Into the Smoke Can Stephen Crowley Go?)
If the overriding job of politicians these days is fundraising and money in politics is at the root of what's wrong with Washington, why is it that a virtual blackout exists on the documenting of incumbents showing their stuff at these coffer-fattening events?
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Visualizing Truth to Power: Putting Photos from Syria Together
These images aren't just random and they aren't just artifacts. They are testaments and they bear witness.
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Drowning or Just Listing?: What Depression Looks Like
What I wonder is if the photo is going for too much drama when depression is actually more cripplingly everyday.
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Quick Takes: Street Views of Jeremy Lin's Family Home
A story too important to be left to the paparazzi.
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As GOP Negatives Sink In: Mitt "Man Without a Face" vs. Rick, the "Victorian Scourge"
The visual fallout of a GOP race that is so weak, so interminable and so flush with cash to smear-and-repeat.
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Lil' Kim on TIME Cover … And She's Asian!
Black, Asian, what's the difference ... as long as it moves magazines.
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It's Reigning Men: Birth Control Panel As One Float in DC's Televised Patriarchy Parade
To be fair, although MSNBC producers did not bother to schedule any women pundits for this particular discussion, they did include the pink symbol for “female” as a badge of gender equity in their title graphic.
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The Romney "Plastered On" Smile
Well, it's true Obama and Bush also apply public faces, but both men have more capacity for responding to warmth and attention than Romney does.
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Last Word on the Afghan War: That’s Entertainment?
Afghan landscape meets global war on terror meets ... John Bonham?
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