Trump Is Disturbed, But We Always Look Past It
He’s been acting even crazier and more deluded, the silence and enabling only amplifying the danger.
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Tax Cuts to Die For: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
In spite of the momentous scope and dire consequences of the tax plan, it's remarkable how little heed the media and the public paid to it.
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Grinch Parade: Our First Trump-Era Holiday Roundup
In the age of Trump, political hysteria and destruction does not take a day off.
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Franken, Harassment, and the Power of a Picture
In Franken's case, his indiscretion may fundamentally differ from the acts of Weinstein or Roy Moore, but he's damned by the photo.
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Power and Abuse: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
This week, sexual abuse and the waning Trump Asia trip dominated the visual news. And it’s not like Trump and the harassment issue were that distinct, as the Der Spiegel cover relates.
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From Da Vinci to Mnuchins, Obscene Wealth as Gospel
The era of billionaire populism is going to be remembered with pictures like this.
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Pop Goes Newsweek: Sexual Harassment Cover Gone Wrong
The Newsweek cover perfectly illustrates the juvenile, adolescent male snickerings that have floated around locker rooms, golf courses and topless bars for years.
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Peking Trump: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
From Trump's yawning Asia trip, to the Democratic election sweep, to still another horrific gun massacre, it's our visual roundup of the week.
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The Best Visual Response to the NYC Truck Attack
With the White House immediately politicizing the New York truck attack, the picture serves as a critical counterweight.
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Indictment Special: Our Visual Roundup of the Week
This week’s visual news was dominated by the first charges brought in the Trump Campaign Russia investigation.
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There’s #TakeAKnee, and There’s Take a Knee
Of course, we were owed a better caption. At the same time, though, it makes for an interesting experiment to see how much we assume.
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Compounding the Weinstein Outrage: How to Visually Cover Sexual Assault
Lurid details and graphic accounts in the Weinstein case do not compensate for the simple fact: there is no adequate imagery to testify to sexual assault.
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Throwing Russian Flags at Trump
Maybe the Trump flag attack would have been more effective six months ago when the Russia story still dominated the news. Otherwise, all it hit was teflon.
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Looking at Trump and Kelly at Arlington Cemetery
Why the New York Times published the photo it did of Trump and Kelly visiting the General's son's grave.
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Michael Shaw Wins the Eugene Smith Fund’s Chapnick Grant
We are pleased to announce that Michael Shaw has been awarded the Eugene Smith Memorial Fund's Chapnick grant on behalf of Reading the Pictures.
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Has Climate Change Killed the California Dream?
California is used to the edge. With the multi-year drought and now these firestorms, however, I'm wondering if climate change has tipped the scale.
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Wildfire, White House, Weinstein & More: Our Roundup of the Week
Another week, another conflagration. Next week, we’re praying for fire containment in California, more power and water in Puerto Rico, and no new disasters.
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On that Rohingya Woman in a Basket
In another instance, a woman fit into a too-small basket might be a visual joke. In this case though, carrying something is a larger communicative act.
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