A distinct theme has emerged from newly revealed covers for three of American's major current affairs magazines, which combine imagery of Donald Trump, the Nazi Party and the KKK.
The New Yorker, Economist and Time magazines all revealed illustrated covers for their next editions yesterday, after an extraordinary week in American politics that saw a deadly white-nationalist rally take place in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The events have continued to dominate news headlines as President Donald Trump equivocated in condemning Neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan (KKK) groups. He instead blamed "many sides" for the violence that culminated in the death of civil-rights activist Heather Heyer when a motorist associated with the white-supremacist groups drove a car into the counter-protest on Saturday. In response, US illustrator David Plunkert sketched an image of Trump in a sailboat, puffing up the sail with his own breath. The billowing white canvas has two holes in its centre, conjuring the image of a Klansman's hood.

Plunkert, whose illustration will appear on the cover of the 28 August issue of the New Yorker, said the nature of the events in Charlottesville had prompted him to diverge from his usual subjects and create an explicitly political work.
"President Trump's weak pushback to hate groups ? as if he was trying not to alienate them as voters ? compelled me to take up my pen," he said.
"A picture does a better job showing my thoughts than words do; it c...