Tabloid President: A Brilliant Trump Era Snapshot
To 56 million people, "fresh air" has nothing to do with NPR. Want to know what it means for Trump to take a stand? Well, you're looking at it.
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Trump’s Office Shrine: The Table, the FOX Interview and Self-Obsession
The segment of the FOX Trump interview proves so telling, it could be mistaken for a behavioral experiment.
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Best Wishes, Thanksgiving 2016
To you and yours on this day of thanks from Reading the Pictures.
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What it Means to Look Like a Woman
I fall, again and again, into not seeing breasts in the photographs and so not seeing womanhood.
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What We Can Learn or Confirm from Trump’s Visit with Japan’s Prime Minister
We can start with the fact that the only pictures of the visit were made and released to the press by the Japanese.
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A Brief Visual History of the Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Memorial Sign
It's important to place the viral Facebook photograph of the riverbank sign in a historical perspective. That starts with the famous casket photo published in Jet after Till's family insisted that he be seen.
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Media Normalizing: Reading the Ryan/Trump Speaker’s Balcony Photo Op
The impression is that Ryan and Trump, in completely normal fashion, are sharing the governing landscape. But that is not what is happening at all.
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Trump Shocker: Our Election Night 2016 Grand Tour
As shattering as it was, much of the imagery offered simple jubilation or pain. In these highlights from our social media feeds, we went further afield.
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Election ’16 Was, Is, And Will Continue To Be About Women
After a searing campaign, the issue of recognition and women's expectations makes this an essential frame.
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Don’t Panic! — Our Election ’16 Twitter & Instagram Final
Bags packed for Canada? Yes, it's almost over. And here is a sampling of our best social media from the campaign's final week.
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An Uncanny Way of Seeing Donald Trump’s Woman Problem
From an Instagram photo, what an appearance by Melania Trump on the last Friday before the election calls to mind.
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So Much for Competence: Trump/Clinton as Popularity Contest
Whatever got us here, asking "Which One?" this year is radically misleading when only one of the candidates is competent.
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