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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Despite Protests, a German Coal Mine Expands
Images of demonstrations in the village of Luetzerath, beside a gigantic coal-mine pit
Winners of the 2022 Close-Up Photographer of the Year
Some of the winning and honored images from this year’s competition in close-up, macro, and micro photography
Photos of the Week: Snow Cannons, Ski Jumping, Light Pillars
New-year celebrations around the world, the 2023 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, heavy rain and flooding in California, an ice festival in China, and much more
A Visit to the French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Images from a recent voyage to several groups of subantarctic islands
Photos of the Week: Confetti Test, Food Battle, Glowing Waterfall
A moment of peace on Ukraine’s front line, a Boxing Day hunt in England, frozen structures along the Great Lakes, a forest fire in Chile, yacht racing in Australia, and much more
2022 Seen Through the Lens of Emilio Morenatti
A look at some of the stories brought to us by the photojournalist Emilio Morenatti over the past year
Photos of the Week: Frosty Countryside, Christmas Train, Santa Visit
Ice-skating in England, a bearskin parade in Romania, whirling dervishes in Turkey, sheep mustering in New Zealand, welcoming the winter solstice in Ireland, and much more
Photos: Argentina’s World Cup Victory Celebration
Images from Buenos Aires, where so many fans came out to cheer for their champions that they had to cancel the parade midway through
2022: The Year in Volcanic Activity
Scenes from the wide variety of volcanic activity on Earth over the past year
Photos of the Week: Frosty Morning, Meteor Shower, Surfing Santa
The successful splashdown of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, a 100-million-year-old fossil in Australia, an oil spill in rural Kansas, scenes from the World Cup in Qatar, and much more