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Eco Watch Photo December 18, 2014

Photos of the Year '14: Climate Change

Like a sociologist (and a humorist), Sullivan captures a sense of the drought that extends to the whole of suburbia.

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Bush Focus Photo December 17, 2014

Jeb's Presidential Facebook Call All About the Profile Pic

With a more rainbow approach to America, the visual tonic is: we're not your father's GOP.

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Media Focus Photo December 16, 2014

Furry Friends Meet Cheap Clicks. (Or, the Rabid Proliferation of Year End Photo Lists.)

In the year end fight for eyeballs, it's a jungle out there.

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Faith Focus Photo

ISIS Hysteria Meets War on Christmas: On the Sydney Hostage Siege Screenshot

Gender-wise, the photo surely did have a voyeuristic and almost sado-sexual vibe to it.

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Bush Focus Photo December 15, 2014

With Cheney, You Always Could Tell the Book From the Cover

It’s like the media is discovering anew the man lives in a parallel universe when the cover of his 2011 biography said it all.

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Media Focus Photo December 14, 2014

About the Photo (I Mean, Photos) of the Undercover Cop Pulling His Gun on Oakland Protesters

Does the photo of the undercover cop pointing his gun at a photographer come with more social and editorial baggage than most can handle?

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Business Focus Photo December 13, 2014

The Glass Ceiling and Gwyneth Paltrow's Legs

Of the 25 people named in the photo, only five are women and only one is a prime mover in an industrial company.

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Bush Focus Photo December 10, 2014

The Senate CIA Torture Report and Our Favorite Rice Photo of All Time

Given the explosive nature of the torture program and the need for deniability, the ability to lull both the public and the media represented the highest form of art.

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Business Focus Photo December 9, 2014

Punching Out a Monet

With such disparity in our otherwise elegant world, the puncture seems fitting of the times.

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Almost as Striking as LeBron’s “I Can’t Breathe” T-Shirt in Brooklyn Last Night? The “Ferguson Jump Rope."

By pure coincidence, the piece of gear seemed to frame LeBron’s protest as a Ferguson echo too.

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Protest Focus Photo December 7, 2014

Garner Aftermath: The Most Poignant "Die-Ins"

There have been so many "die ins" across the country, the newswires have been full of them. These three particularly stood out to me.

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Culture Focus Photo December 6, 2014

Wedding Photojournalism: Some of My Best Friends are Masai

If the bride knows the Masai and they are friends, is she still "using" the Masai as accessories? Umm, yes.

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Photography/Photojournalism Photo December 5, 2014

Mindful of Rice, Garner and Brown: Gordon Parks's Two Black Boys and One White Boy

I wish I could tell you how I would have read the picture before. Instead, I made acquaintance with it while immersed in the photos from Ferguson.

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Protest Focus Photo December 3, 2014

Todd Heisler's Two Scenes from the Eric Garner Non-Indictment

The beauty of the first photo is how it juxtaposes Radio City as a real life Christmas card with the street. It's the season of joy versus another day of open wounds.

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Open and Shut: On that NYT NYPD Body Cam Pic

If the gestures allude to the use of the camera as "open and shut," that's a double-fantasy.

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Protest Focus Photo December 1, 2014

Thoughts on the Rams "Don't Shoot" Gesture As They Obliterated the Raiders

As a single statement and a preamble to the contest is one thing, but bathed in light and replayed as the capstone to various winning moments is asking that much more.

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Ferguson MO Photo November 29, 2014

Black Friday: Ferguson Goes to the Mall

After the post 9/11 admonition to "go shopping," how striking to see the National Guard called in to defend big retail.

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