Colbert: Fit to Be Untied
What we're seeing in this photograph is the look of a person who's reached a tipping point.
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Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Stream: Beyond the Humanitarian Response to the Great Migration
If humanitarian fervor and photos of the migrant crisis dominated last week like nothing else, this largely invisible image served cleverly, if silently, as a counterpoint.
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The Crisis of Leadership
Perhaps what the crisis images ultimately highlight are the abject limits of our governing systems, our leaders and our humanity.
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Christian Conservative “Counter Logic”: That Kim Davis Photo and God’s Law
This photograph of Kim Davis denying gay people equal treatment under the law by appealing to the dictates of her own conscience is a picture of the snake eating its own tail.
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On Obama in Alaska and the (Visitor) Showers at Auschwitz
My takeaway from the White House photographs of Obama’s trip to Alaska, and the photos of the outdoor misting stations at Auschwitz, is pretty similar
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Why We Saw the Photo of the Israeli Solder Giving the Palestinian Boy a Headlock … Not Fighting a Girl
It’s not just man vs. child, especially female child, that exposes the state. It’s also the sense the otherwise omnipotent soldier might actually be over his head.
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