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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 of the Week: Bridal Carry, Ostrich Hug, Godzilla Oscar
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Winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2024
Some of this year’s amazing winners and runners-up
Gaza on the Brink of Famine
Palestinians living in Gaza are struggling with extreme shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.
Winners of the 2024 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition
A collection of some of the winning and shortlisted photos from this year’s competition
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Humanitarian aid air-dropped into Gaza, the funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Moscow, a blizzard in California, a parade of effigies in Bali, and much more
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Images of some of the events and sights around the world in the year 1924
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Wildfires Rage Across the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma
Early images from a broad area affected by several wildfires
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Farmer protests against low crop prices in India, a shallow flood in Death Valley, a wooden replica of the Eiffel Tower in France, unusually warm weather at a ski resort in Poland, and much more
Two Years of War in Ukraine
Images from recent months, showing a region reshaped by two years of war