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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo August 23, 2011

Your Turn: Rick Perry Supports Our Troops

It's a picture that leaped into my head over a week ago, and I can't stop thinking about. I'm interested in how you look at it.

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International Focus Photo August 22, 2011

Saif Wins the Internet

To the extent politics today is dominated by celebrities -- the badder the better -- the captured, un-captured Saif Ghadafi vanquished the rebels tonight on cable news and won Monday's internet.

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Campaign '12 Photo

The Symmetry of Bush Perry

The photo not only deserves to be circulated and seen, but should be kept in full view through the '12 campaign as a legitimate point-of-caution.

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International Focus Photo August 21, 2011

My Favorite Shot from Tripoli

They high-tailed it so fast, the espresso's still warm.

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Eilat: Sleeping Soldiers Return

What bothers me is equating warriors more closely with kittens while committing "the hell that is war" to the back burner.

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Business Focus Photo August 20, 2011

The Dollar-Store Economy (and a Chance to Unload, God Bless You!)

Beyond the one-liner, there is something unique and clever about this picture, delivering an effect that is extremely rare, at least for an editorial photo.

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President Obama Photo August 19, 2011

iPrez

Self-identified as change agents, weren't these guys, themselves, supposed to embody the "new new thing?"

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Campaign '12 Photo August 18, 2011

Elizabeth Warren Cowgirls Up

After Texan Rick Perry galloped away with Michelle Bachmann’s Iowa thunder, perhaps Warren realized that the “don’t mess with . . .” message plays well above the Mason-Dixon line too.

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Obama: Campaign Bus As Metaphor

I think people are freaked out by the bus because it's a prominent and quite overt metaphor for a President who can't be pinned down, who can't and won't be identified.

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Campaign '12 Photo August 17, 2011

Strange White House Photo From Aboard Obama Bus

He sort of looks trapped, don't you think?

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Thuggish Cameron Thinks Graffiti's Got His Back

Don't they get that graffiti, symbolic of the alienation, frustration, and yearning for identity and expression that underpins it, is the exact thing Cameron is denying?

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Campaign '12 Photo August 16, 2011

Perry's Bus

I'm interested in this as racial commentary. Fair or not?

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Campaign '12 Photo August 15, 2011

Obama Still Letting GOP Define Terms

I mean, Michael Deaver, looking at Obama with the hay bales, must be laughing from the grave.

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New Yorker U.S.S. Economy Cover: Smell of Titanic in the Morning

And the guy probably shorted the company that insured the boat!

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Campaign '12 Photo August 14, 2011

I’m Perry Sure I’ve Seen This Movie Before

I think Mrs. Musharraf is on to this guy.

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Brendan Hoffman Photo August 13, 2011

The Picture from Iowa, 2012: T-Paw on Ice

can't decide how much I think T-Paw was battered by media group think, versus how much Pawlenty just plain couldn't clear that classic bar of "having enough sizzle."

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Campaign '12 Photo

Really, Bachmann Sex Act With Corn Dog?

It's time for the click-hungry media, when it comes to the sexist depiction of women, to clean up its act.

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