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Reading the Pictures
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December 23, 2019
Christmas Back With a Vengeance: Jesus, Mary and Joseph in Cages
October 1, 2017
Reading the Pictures Salon: Michael Shaw and Pete Souza in Conversation at Photoville ’17
September 29, 2017
Puerto Rico is Not a Country: Our Roundup of the Week
August 24, 2017
Phoenix Jesus: On Scott Mahaskey’s Trump Rally Protest Photo
August 27, 2025
The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament
August 8, 2025
Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields
August 7, 2025
Willful Blindness: How Denial Left Texas Children Defenseless Against the Climate Crisis
July 27, 2025
Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss
July 23, 2025
The Only Shot That Matters: How One Mother’s Photo Exposes the Truth of an Unfolding Measles Epidemic
July 13, 2025
Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege
June 18, 2025
What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came?
June 9, 2025
What Now? Audacious Imagery Outside Immigration Court, Calling BS on the Trump-Musk “Melee,” and Researchers’ Fury
June 6, 2025
Weapons as Props, Warriors as Roadies: Brandon Bell’s Deadpan Photos Call Out Massive Effort Behind Trump’s Military Parade
May 29, 2025
The Oval Office as Demon’s Lair
May 29, 2025
Double Takes: Healthy, Wealthy…And Lies
May 29, 2025
Vatican Celebration Photos Spotlight Pope Leo’s Challenge to Trump’s America
May 29, 2025
Trump’s Visual Legacy at 100 Days: Not Normal Pictures for Not Normal Times
April 3, 2025
Signaling Strangelove: The New Yorker Cover’s Brilliant Take on SignalGate
March 12, 2025
Trump’s Mugshot as White House Power Play
March 5, 2025
The State of Disunion
February 25, 2025
Trump’s Village People Takeover – Why This Matters Now
February 22, 2025
Chatting The Pictures: Old Glory, Trump, and the L.A. Fire Disasters