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Photo February 28, 2011

Don't Tread on Me™

Only now, with progressives taking to the streets with new force and incentive, is it becoming clear just how much conservatives and the Tea Party (as the bright shiny object of the day) has dominated the "protest stage" over the past few years.

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Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: Chaos (Controlled?)

This exodus exemplifies a dark face of globalization: Smaller numbers from richer societies are taken care of, while the masses of laborers from poor countries struggle to survive -- and that is a fundamental reason why this wave of revolt and revolution has swept across the region.

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Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: Exodus

It's no longer quiet at Tunisia's Ras Jedir border where Alan Chin had been attempting to cross into Libya these past two days. Instead, there is now a mass of evacuees choking the area.

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Assad Portrait: Like the Folks Next Door

Vogue couldn't have picked a more opportune time, or a more renowned photographer, to cozy up to a Middle East dictator and his former investment banker wife.

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Business Focus Photo February 26, 2011

Obama/Zuckerberg

it's clear the Administration is only too happy to pose Obama with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. It reinforces Obama's star power and aligns him with the cutting edge.

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Originals Photo February 25, 2011

Christopher Guess in Wisconsin: Truly the People's House

This is a second report on the protests taking place inside the Capitol Building in Wisconsin. Photographer Christopher Guess is a Wisconsin native and graduate of its university. In this post, Christopher documents how the face-off between Governor Scott Walker and citizens, students and state employees had, by mid-week,...

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Culture Focus Photo February 24, 2011

Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist

The key here is to get beyond the the language of cautious concern. And, once you do, the otherwise arbitrary allusion to black women and pregnancy by the far right seems as much a racial ploy as anything else.

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Alan Chin on the Tunisia-Libya Border: A Hundred Miles

From the Tunisian border to Tripoli, it is only a hundred miles along the Mediterranean coast highway. At any moment, we journalists gathered here calculate, the revolution will reach this border and we'll be able to enter. But when or how that might happen, we can only speculate.

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Collective Bargaining and Catastrophe

When disaster strikes, we can learn how it is that all bargaining is collective bargaining.

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Media Focus Photo February 23, 2011

Framing Arab/Islamic Youth, Then and Now

I'm curious about Western media's agenda in the way it's spinning the revolution taking place across the Arab world.

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David Cameron –- Escorting Arms Dealers to Huge Mid-East Defense Expo –- Drops By Tahrir Square

Only slightly obscured by the palm trees and the olive branches, here are a few choice photos laying out the blatant hypocricy of the West when it comes to the arming of Middle Eastern dictators and autocratic regimes -- on sale now!

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Originals Photo February 22, 2011

Christopher Guess in Wisconsin: "We Love This Type Of Crowd"

Photographer Christopher Guess flies home to Wisconsin to document the sit-in at the State Capitol.

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Photo February 21, 2011

Cathay Pacific: Selling Feminine Passivity

The ad and the features present customers with the promise of more than just a flight attendant who will do her job well. This flight attendant is the ideal of femininity: she’s beautiful (a former model), she’s submissive (apologizes immediately!), and she’s interested in you — your thoughts, your...

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Alan Chin Photo February 20, 2011

Alan Chin in Cairo: Getting My Cameras Back

Censorship through confiscating equipment: The corrosion and absurdity of Egypt's bureaucracy, a small window onto how the Mubarek regime kept people under control.

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Your Turn: Self-Portraits for Social Networks

The way Facebook and social networking have literally rocked the world, I'm interested in your take on this World Press Winning story series in the portrait category by photographer Wolfram Hahn.

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Photo February 19, 2011

Your Turn: Bring Back My Ronnie To Me!

As the Bag downshifts till Tuesday leaving the analysis in your able hands, we're wondering how you make sense of this scene at the CPAC conference last week.

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I'm Down With The Uprising (Until They Stop Looking Like Us)

How much were the pictures from Egypt like cotton candy for American eyes, especially as compared to uprising scene populated by Islamic citizens in other countries, particularly citizens in religious garb?

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