Chatting the Pictures: Washington Trying to Steady Things
Wall Street craziness. Economic inequality. Capitol uprising. It’s all there in Timothy Clary’s photo of this George Washington statue.
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Here’s Looking at You Kid: Mark Zuckerberg’s Elusive DC Testimony
As much as his appearance before Congress was a visual sensation, Zuckerberg was not going to be pinned down legally, rhetorically or photographically.
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Chatting the Pictures: Trump Cheerleaders; Super Bowl Body; SpaceX Starman
Hey, we’re back with another news photo chat! Watch RTP's Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan riff for 20 minutes or so about three headline photos.
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Super Bowl LII Ads Cleverly Exploit Fake News
The best Super Bowl ads this year make light of the fake news controversy and an America that hardly knows what (or who) to believe anymore.
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Tax Cuts to Die For: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
In spite of the momentous scope and dire consequences of the tax plan, it's remarkable how little heed the media and the public paid to it.
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From Da Vinci to Mnuchins, Obscene Wealth as Gospel
The era of billionaire populism is going to be remembered with pictures like this.
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Visual Politics and the March for Science: What Caught our Eye
As much as science is taken for granted, the point of the march is that science is essential, that it is literally everything.
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United: When the Corporate Abuse is Visible
It is not like corporations don't pummel citizens everyday. The difference is that there are no pictures.
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Only Alt-Right Economics Could Create Such a Powerful Muslim Ban Protest Photo
Of course, the photo is making a moral argument. But then the picture "gets down to business."
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The Ruins of the Space Program
If you liked the space program, it will be a mixed blessing. If you like ruins, however, you will feel right at home.
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Race Optics and the 2016 Academy Awards
Looking more closely at the images, the way the Academy Awards program navigated the race issue wasn't nearly as slick as it seemed.
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It’s Gucci Meets Starbucks, by God
Our stealth photo of the week. Truly, no one sees this church in the mirror?
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House of Pain: What a Wall Street Pummeling Looks Like
These trading floor scenes tell you all you need to know about America's tie to China's wallet.
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To 2016 — And Photos Like We’ve Never Seen
In the new year, we're going to see a lot more wondrous and unusual imagery at the intersection of science, technology and nature.
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Seasons Greetings
I really like this one, specifically at this holiday and gift-giving season.
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Status Update: Silicon Valley in the Mirror
If the “Status Update” show was only partly about Silicon Valley and the tension between tech and the rest of the Bay Area, that’s how we read it.
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In Spite of Cancer Link, Meat Never Looked So Good
We aren’t invited to question how the American food industry prepares meat. According to the imagery, it's the public's willpower that is on the hook.
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