When Nekima Levy Armstrong was transported from the federal courthouse in St. Paul, Minn., to the Sherburne County Jail with three layers of shackles around her body, it was, she told The New York Times recently, the closest she had ever felt to slavery. Still, she walked calmly, her face resolute, her head held high--though that wasn't the way she appeared later in a photo released by the White House, which depicted Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and activist, as hysterically crying. While the Trump administration regularly circulates imagery altered by artificial intelligence, including demeaning and racist deepfakes, this picture was different, noted The Times,

  Peter Kuper is, luckily, an artist who needs no introduction. I say this because his long and varied career is impossible to summarize in a paragraph. Whether celebrating his life-long fascination with the universe of bugs, in Insectopolis, or satirizing the political nature of human inhumanity in World War III Illustrated, Peter’s work begins with research—scientific, literary, political, psychological and you name it. For this reason, I asked him to share his...