Gallery: Sudan’s Civil War
A close look at the world’s largest humanitarian crisis
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Inside the Very Expensive, Extremely Overwhelming, Engineered Fun of Theme Parks
Roller coasters are bumping against the limits of physics and the human body to keep their riders entertained.
You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Be a Reenactor
Benedict Arnold’s boot wouldn’t come off, and other hardships from my weekend in the Revolutionary War.
How the Most Remote Community in America Gets Its Mail
Transporting letters and packages to the village of Supai requires a feat of logistics, horsemanship, and carefully placed hooves.
The Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still There
For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.
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Robert Rauschenberg’s Penchant for Invention and Spectacle
In 2007, he and Merce Cunningham put a new twist on a famous 1981 sculpture.
By the Horns
Miriam Cabas is one of Spain’s few female bullfighters. What does her success mean for bullfighting, and for Spain?
Edward Burtynsky’s Warning
What the photographer found in a tire pile in Modesto, California, and on the shores of Western Australia
What Lisette Model Saw in Jazz
Her portraits capture the joy and wariness of the genre’s luminaries.
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Photos: A Horrific Earthquake in Haiti
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American Landscapes, Seen Through the Lens of Bob Wick
A collection of favorites from a 30-year career spent photographing public lands
Devastating Wildfires Rage Across the Greek Island of Evia
Thousand of tourists and locals have fled wildfires on Evia amid near-apocalyptic scenes of dark smoke and flames.
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Tokyo 2020: Photos From the Summer Olympics
Images from the past week of Olympic competition in Tokyo
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High winds and scorching temperatures have driven the fires, forcing residents and tourists to evacuate by land or by sea.
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Scenes from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, wildfires in Turkey and Russia, a spacecraft in Earth’s orbit, migrants crossing the Mediterranean, flooding in China, and much more
Photos of California’s Dixie Fire
Scenes from the Golden State’s largest wildfire of 2021 so far
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Scenes from the first few days of Olympic competition in Japan