The tsunami of images from the conflict between Israel and Hamas is blanketing our screens—and potentially fueling our desensitization to these horrors.

From conservation to importing water from the Pacific, Democrats say they have all the answers to historic drought. The one thing no one wants to talk about: stopping the sprawl.

The burgeoning group, which has scored hundreds of school board election victories, is busy drafting more “joyful warriors” to take control of the Republican agenda.

What’s alarming about this year’s bleaching event is just how quickly the corals died.

The passions of Pennsylvania were on full display in the last week of the campaign in the battleground state. Photographer Mark Peterson was there to capture the action.

Photographs illustrate the toll in lives and possessions of a desperate flight from war.

Esplanade Gardens was trumpeted as a way to build wealth for middle-class Black New Yorkers. But its crumbling infrastructure shows how the government gave up on affordable housing.

How Maxar Technologies, an American satellite company and key contractor for the Defense Department, became the media’s favorite photographer of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Scenes from Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.

How the Maryland representative became the man for this historical moment

Biographers get distracted by the photographer’s unusual life story—to the point of diminishing her work itself.

We’ve heard repeatedly from the country’s vaccine resisters. But what about the people who follow the rules? They’re ignored and forgotten—and they are in pain.

Ron Haviv, who once covered a coup attempt in Panama, followed rioters through a broken window into the seat of his own nation’s legislative branch.

Mark Peterson documents the longest election night that ever was.

Makeshift morgues and field hospitals are cropping up around the city as thousands die and tens of thousands fall ill from the coronavirus.

Scenes from Zhengzhou, where people’s movements were restricted to contain the virus

Bil Zelman's photos confront viewers with the unvarnished, immediate reality of climate and habitat disruption.

What a 2008 photo tells us about American political life in 2019

53206, a heavily African American neighborhood north of downtown Milwaukee, suffers from all manner of ills—not least of which are the myths of criminality that continue to surround it.

Multinational mining giant Vale S.A.'s dam near the Brazilian town of Brumadinho broke in January, flooding the area with toxic mudslides. These are the stories of those who survived.