The International Volleyball Federation has signaled that they are willing to let women's teams wear more modest uniforms, but how did the current uniforms come to be so skimpy in the first place?
Continue ReadingIf Trayvon was a little moody at times or putting some attitude on display, that actually situates him along teenage norms much more so than when I see him posed on a horse.
Continue ReadingWere it not for the handcuffs, you would think they were pulling in a guy who had too many parking tickets.
Continue ReadingThe atmosphere was either “festive” and “wonderful” or filled with “hollering and screaming.” This image, however, hints at the broader deliberative dynamics shaping the health insurance debate.
Continue ReadingWell, at least it puts one major focus of the Trayvon Martin episode where it needs to be - on the availability of guns and increasingly lax ownership laws.
Continue ReadingWith new facts and alleged facts swirling and the nation paying close attention, beware the emergence of previously unseen imagery in combination with the tendency to stereotype.
Continue ReadingIt's not like the photos of Obama at the Koren DMZ are particularly unique -- and that's exactly what accounts for their significance.
Continue ReadingLooking at photos of the Reason Rally, I’m struck by how many ralliers depend on religious iconography to visually express their atheism.
Continue ReadingIf anyone was under the illusion that the use of Islam and the "terror war" as a strategy for undermining Obama had ended, look carefully.
Continue ReadingIn the U.S. women are spoken down to while, currently, in Myanmar, of all places, they reach across to be heard.
Continue ReadingRick Santorum's NRA shooting range adventure shows an odd tone deafness to the controversy surrounding the death of Trayvon Miller.
Continue ReadingHow a photo that captures the fearful symbolism of a simple hoodie harkens to an iconic photo from our past.
Continue ReadingI don't know if it's a race thing, a Democrat thing or just a shallow media thing where the focus remains so firmly focused on personality politics.
Continue ReadingAnd (adding insult to two self-inflicted injuries), just what is Santorum looking at in the back seat of his car?
Continue ReadingFor all the symbolic weight still invested in the Stars and Stripes, it’s easy to see how swapping out the fifty states with "The One" plays right into alarmist narratives about the European-style socialist Obama taking over.
Continue ReadingWatching the Santorum family react to the Illinois results (among others), you start to wonder how much the tribe is really hiding behind a populist and genial face most of the time.
Continue ReadingIf the first photo seems frivolous, it does provocatively raise the question whether the movement still has a constructive face to present.
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