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International Focus Photo February 6, 2013

What's Really Terrifying About N. Korea Attack Video (Or: Smile, You're on Canon Camera)

How do you scare the world power system? Not through the threat of bombing Manhattan. No, you threaten to steal their stuff.

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Media Focus Photo February 5, 2013

A Drone is a Drone is a Drone?

I have to wonder if this cover is actually going too far for freezing a targeting killing machine over one of America's fine planned communities.

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In One Photo, a Lost Generation

What the photographer captures is the rippling effect of a culture of gun violence

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Advertising Watch Photo February 4, 2013

A Deeper Look at the Chrysler "Military Homecoming" Super Bowl Ad: Like We Can Really Be Whole Again

Are we more whole again? Or, are we the marks for a special-edition product campaign that plays on the vulnerability of returning troops and on the heartstrings of American media consumers?

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Holy Ground

I have a quick take on why this picture from Israel popped up in various slideshows of the week.

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Super Bawl

Too often, however, American culture upholds this kind of hypermasculine intensity as a virtue.

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Sports Focus Photo February 3, 2013

#SuperBowlBlackOut

If it didn't last long, the disruption represented a dose of randomness and real-life in the otherwise narcotic effect of the yearly American bacchanal.

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Militarism Focus Photo February 2, 2013

Obama Firing a Gun. (Or: Why Skeeter Attack a Major Backfire)

The Obama skeet shooting photo, in my mind, is the second most stunning White House photo after "The Situation Room."

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Culture Focus Photo February 1, 2013

Saturday Your Turn: Lock Down

I saw this photo earlier in the week and held on to it specifically for today. (Excuse me if I said "it's loaded.")

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Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly and the New Liberal Times

What was once another "Hollywood on the Potomac" dream couple, an up-and-coming young Congresswoman and her proud hero-astronaut, being so much less are suddenly so much more.

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