Perhaps a threat to consumer culture, these new photos at TIME ridicule yoga, mediation and spiritual practices, framing them as still somehow “far out."
Continue ReadingWhile most media highlighted more manly-man U.S.-Russia stand-off pics from the Secretary-General’s UN luncheon, we’re voting for this as our #1.
Continue ReadingCondensing his visit to one powerful scene, the photo captures Pope Francis's challenge to America and its uncompromising political class to reach out.
Continue ReadingAlthough the Pope typically addresses injustice in the context of class, his concern over racial strife was implicit in those key quotations from MLK.
Continue ReadingWhat 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.
Continue ReadingIn this complex photograph, we see threads of American exceptionalism as well as reaching on the Washington Mall.
Continue ReadingPoverty? Racial tolerance? Social Justice? For the media over the next few days, it’s Hollywood, baby.
Continue ReadingDoes the suspension of Christiansburg, Virginia teenagers actually undermine academic discipline and miss a perfect teaching moment?
Continue ReadingThis New York Times photo feature is less about military propaganda than it is about selling the next "good war."
Continue ReadingSince the aim is to challenge the news narrative framing Clinton, the choice to lead with this photo is both puzzling and problematic.
Continue ReadingOur read on the visual highlights of the presidential debate, including the Donald - Jeb, Donald - Carly and just The Donald show.
Continue ReadingHas Hungary become the visual fall guy for a crisis with no good humanitarian answer?
Continue ReadingI 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.
Continue ReadingWe’re way past the point where an image like this simply serves as a reminder of the problem.
Continue ReadingThis remarkable photo, taken 9/12/01, is even more interesting appearing in a year wracked by racial protest and the emergence of #blacklivesmatter.
Continue ReadingSeriously, this might be the most surreal photo of the great migration.
Continue ReadingThe achievement here is how the group can take this mindlessly oppressive rubble world and reduce it to pure geometry.
Continue ReadingFor its story value, the photo might as well be a movie treatment — the migrant cast as its dramatic hero.
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