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International Focus Photo March 19, 2012

IED

A rare photo, especially after the years of damage inflicted on American troops and tanks in Iraq.

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Campaign '12 Photo

Santorum in the Flesh

Having just committed himself to stamping out pornography in the U.S., might we be looking at the emperor with no clothes?

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo March 18, 2012

And DOD's Flattering Pics of Bales are Evidence of What?

In releasing these healthy and hearty photos of Robert Bales in the field, is the DOD looking out for its soldier, or for a system that broke him?

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Culture Focus Photo March 16, 2012

Three Men with Beards

Since the visibility of married gay couples has not yet become normalized within the optics of State, it’s hard not to read this as a significant symbolic moment.

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Fashion Focus Photo March 15, 2012

Asma Assad is Pumped

A daily stream of photos showing Assad's atrocities against his own people is one thing. More heinous perhaps, are images of domestic indulgence, items of vanity that reveal the bubble the Assad's have been swimming around in as the blood flows in the streets.

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Campaign '12 Photo

The Audacity of Hoop

Obama and Cameron chomping down foot longs at the NCAA's? Call it one more smooth layup in the Campaign '12 optics battle.

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Campaign '12 Photo March 14, 2012

GOP Primary: Segregation Lives

Nicole Bengiveno's GOP primary/racial segregation shot is probably the smartest, bravest campaign photo I've seen all year.

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Campaign '12 Photo

Romney: Looks like a Push

After last night's drenching, how many ways do we like Damon Winter's photo on Mitt's situation?

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Campaign '12 Photo

Everything Old is Newt Again

After Newt's huge (non-)victory sweep last night in Alabama and Mississippi, Stephen Crowley's classic from last October is dead-on again

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Photo March 13, 2012

Juxtaposition of the Day: The Terror. We're On It.

The visuals of the tragedy in Afghanistan and how the Obama Administration is dealing with it.

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Campaign '12 Photo

Alabama, the "Great Immigration Migration" and the Spirit of GOP Primary Day

Thinking of HB56 and Santorum's pervasive religious zeal, the question that seems to need asking is: what would Jesus do?

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International Focus Photo March 12, 2012

Enter "the Patriot" Era

This is the first time I’m seeing wire photos of Israel’s “Patriot”-style Iron Dome missile defense in operation. I just wish I had a better idea how to read these.

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Afghanistan Kumbaya

I was already feeling manipulated by this photo in early February, and that's before things went from worse to unfathomable.

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Advertising Watch Photo March 11, 2012

Coming Soon: The Joseph Kony Tour Package

Geo-politics meets compassion marketing meets war tourism.

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Fukushima +1

Marking the one year anniversary of the tsunami and Fukushima meltdown, this photo is like the cousin of a very early one presaging the ongoing radiation threat on Japan's next generation.

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Militarism Focus Photo March 9, 2012

In Troop Photos (and a Political Photo-Op, No Less), How Often are we Actually Invited to See Through the Soldier’s Eyes?

A political photo-op with the troops invites us to focus not just on the soldier's point-of-view but on his experience of the homefront after war.

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If I Had a Hammer

This photo conveys a yet-unclassified demographic which is more a threat to the GOP in the general and local elections come November: The middle-aged, middle class woman who votes.

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