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The Pope's US Trip as it Touched on Race
Although the Pope typically addresses injustice in the context of class, his concern over racial strife was implicit in those key quotations from MLK.
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The Pope's Congressional Override
What was straight out of a parallel universe was the way our senior legislators, the polarized of the polarized, reacted to the Pope's confrontation in a completely apolitical way.
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From D.C., and The Atlantic / Echosight Project: Mashing the American Dream
In this complex photograph, we see threads of American exceptionalism as well as reaching on the Washington Mall.
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Pope in America: It’s Showtime!
Poverty? Racial tolerance? Social Justice? For the media over the next few days, it’s Hollywood, baby.
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What Lesson Suspending Kids for Wearing Confederate Flag?
Does the suspension of Christiansburg, Virginia teenagers actually undermine academic discipline and miss a perfect teaching moment?
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News Photos as Military Promo: Prepping for the Next Good War?
This New York Times photo feature is less about military propaganda than it is about selling the next "good war."
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Nate Silver Closes the Curtain on Hillary
Since the aim is to challenge the news narrative framing Clinton, the choice to lead with this photo is both puzzling and problematic.
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The GOP’s Reagan Library Debate With the Sound Off
Our read on the visual highlights of the presidential debate, including the Donald - Jeb, Donald - Carly and just The Donald show.
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Migrant Optics: Targeting Hungary (and Conjuring the Dark Evil of WWII)
Has Hungary become the visual fall guy for a crisis with no good humanitarian answer?
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Geekfest, and the Blurry Lines Between Commercial, Documentary and News Photography
I have to say that, up until the past year or so, I wasn’t seeing a whole lot of news photos that were this lush.
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Past the Reminders: The Life-Threatening NFL
We’re way past the point where an image like this simply serves as a reminder of the problem.
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On 9/11: A New Ground Zero Photo. Five Kids on Bikes.
This remarkable photo, taken 9/12/01, is even more interesting appearing in a year wracked by racial protest and the emergence of #blacklivesmatter.
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Great Migration Photo from Hungary: Taking Flight
Seriously, this might be the most surreal photo of the great migration.
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Simply Transcendent: Bar Palestine Balances Despair and Dignity in Gaza
The achievement here is how the group can take this mindlessly oppressive rubble world and reduce it to pure geometry.
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Migrant Optics: Taking it to Hungary
For its story value, the photo might as well be a movie treatment — the migrant cast as its dramatic hero.
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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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