This is an opinion column.

The future of the Voting Rights Act is again in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court. Because the court still doesn’t allow cameras, news media have struggled for what we in the industry call art — that image that perfectly captures a moment.

When a would-be assassin nicked Donald Trump’s ear with a bullet, that photograph of the candidate pumping his fist in the air below a fluttering American flag became the art for his comeback campaign.

Art is the image that sticks in your mind long after the sentences below have faded into a haze.

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The Voting Rights Act story needs art. Only, there’s nothing like that yet to capture the importance at hand. Instead, many news outlets have reverted t

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