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International Focus Photo September 22, 2010

Stephen Ferry's "Colombia Ongoing": Ants Storm Congress

Stephen Ferry reports from Colombia: Ants on the walls of Congress, a new president, and the war continues.

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Culture Focus Photo September 21, 2010

Killing the DREAM Amendment

When we talk about putting it on the line these days in the name of social justice, people who come to mind include those undocumented college students or immigrant youth who have lived in the country for five years or more and who have also self-identified. ... Oh,...

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Media Focus Photo September 20, 2010

Beyond Sex With an Elephant, Meghan, What are you Trying to Tell Me?

And I was already wondering what was going on under the Republican big tent.

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Hands in the Witchcraft

Think a Tea Party Senate candidate would have trouble recollecting a Satanic experience? Well, watch the hands.

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Afghanistan Photo September 18, 2010

April Rabkin: Election Posters Highlight Propaganda Surrounding Afghan Election

It is an inspiring sight, at first: the streets of Afghanistan are saturated with campaign posters. They're on storefronts, roadside billboards, even festooning lampposts like holiday streamers. Democracy must be blooming, right?

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Michelle O: More Incoming Fire?

Is the "angry FLOTUS" meme back again? How far is domestic media ready to run with a trashy quote attributed to Michelle Obama.

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Your Turn: Not a Piece of Meat (?)

BagReaders slice the Meat Dress. (Or not.)

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There are Press Freedoms and There are Press Freedoms

Al-Ahram, Egypt's largest newspaper and government mouthpiece is very cognizant of the images used to portray the negotiations and Mubarak. So much so, in fact, that they photoshopped Mubarak into the leadership position in place of Obama in this image from the recent White House Middle East...

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John Lucaites Photo September 17, 2010

Why There are So Few Pictures of the Attack on the Pentagon

After a recent class one of my students wrote with a question, wondering why it was that there are so many pictures of firefighters at ground zero and no pictures of “the Pennsylvania flight or the DC attack.” Of course, such pictures do exist and they have had...

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Visual Week in Review: That Fire Drill Otherwise Known as the 9/11 Anniversary; Christine's Scream

This week's VWIR looks at the contentious 9/11 anniversary -- including photos by Alan Chin from Ground Zero and the conservative 9/12 rally in DC -- and the dramatic Tea Party upset in the Delaware GOP Senate primary.

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Media Focus Photo September 16, 2010

Post Racial? Yeah, Sure.

This post was going to be about how despite being a fairly educated working stiff all my life, I have still only achieved one of six benchmarks that guarantee middle class status- a small modicum of health insurance (although in all honesty, I have afforded vacations- in the past)....

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Campaign '10 Photo September 15, 2010

Christine's Armey (Whether He Likes it or Not)

On the subject of Christine O'Donnell's character baggage...

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The Aristocrat

Is one privilege of Boehner and the GOP's top dogs that they don't get photographed around the privileged?

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Campaign '10 Photo

Fast Fooled

Why these two shots? Because it's that weird.

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Photo September 14, 2010

Election Final: Christine, For "The Community"

I was interested in the juxtaposition below from Christine O'Donnell's multimedia page. the fundamentally unqualified Palin Tea Party knockoff running for Senate today in Delaware's GOP primary.

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9/11 Photo September 13, 2010

Alan Chin: Not Exactly a Party

As opposed to more critical or outlandish portraits of Tea Party rallies, Alan Chin's photos speak to the emotional underside of the so-called movement.

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The Beck/Palin Roadshow: Take a Lesson

Overall, I continue to appreciate Glenn Beck's brilliant reframing of the Tea Party* and the extremistic messaging of the far right, building on his huge rally in D.C. on the anniversary of MLK's "I have a dream" speech. In this shot from Beck/Palin's rally on 9/11 this weekend...

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