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.
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.
No Parents Allowed
Before smartphones and social media, teenagers constructed their identity on the walls of their room.
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Photos of the Week: Rainy Games, Police Pups, Beard Championship
The reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, autumn colors in New Hampshire, damage from Super Typhoon Ragasa in Hong Kong, the start of the Oktoberfest in Munich, and much more
Winners of the 2025 Natural Landscape Photography Awards
The winning and honored images from this year’s contest, designed to “promote the very best landscape photography by digital and film photographers who value realism and authenticity in their work,” selected from more than 11,000 entries
Portrait of a Village Lost to the Sea
Some coastal villages in Indonesia’s Central Java province have been largely abandoned in recent years, as rising seas, sinking land, and erosion have left communities and farms underwater.
Photos of the Week: Adventure Pyramid, Albino Alligator, Emerald Lake
The World Tramdriver Championships in Austria, the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, autumn colors in northern China, a shrinking glacier in Switzerland, and much more
Winners of Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025
The winning and commended images from this year’s Ocean Photographer of the Year competition, presented by Oceanographic Magazine and Blancpain, featuring some of the best coastal, drone, and underwater photographs chosen from thousands of entries
The 2025 Audubon Photography Awards
Winners and honorable mentions from the Audubon Society’s 16th annual competition featuring amazing images of bird life from around the world
Photos of the Week: Lunar Eclipse, Sandbar Cricket, Horn Dance
A cattle drive in Germany, anti-government protests in France and Nepal, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York, surfing Chihuahuas in California, and much more
Photos: Nepal’s “Gen Z” Protests
Anti-government protests in Nepal on Monday, which followed a ban on social-media apps, were met with deadly force by riot police. Reacting to that violence, demonstrators returned the next day, burning many government buildings and forcing the prime minister to resign.
A World-Changing Vaccination Campaign, in Photos
In 1952, its peak year in the U.S., polio outbreaks left nearly 21,000 victims paralyzed and 3,000 dead. After the country introduced a vaccine, which became widely available in 1955, cases in the U.S. dropped to fewer than 100 per year within a decade.
What Lisette Model Saw in Jazz
Her portraits capture the joy and wariness of the genre’s luminaries.