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You Won’t Recognize These Striking Hollywood Workers. And That’s the Point.

Interviews and Photographs by Michael Friberg
Explosive Photos of Portland Amid the 2020 George Floyd Protests

Mark Murrmann; Photography by Rian Dundon
Pajaro’s Quest to Rebuild

Story and Photography by Zaydee Sanchez
Utah’s Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry

Stephanie Mencimer

Scenes From the Spectacular and Totally Wacky Donald Trump Arraignment Circus

Photographs by M. Scott Brauer
20 Striking Images of Protest Against Israeli Democracy Under Siege

Mark Murrmann
These Images Tell the Stories of Families Reeling From the East Palestine Fiasco

Photos and story by Lauren Petracca
Insurrection: January 6, Up Close and Firsthand

By Mark Murrmann; Photos by Nate Gowdy

Home Front

Sasha Maslov
Remarkable Photos Show What Harm Reduction Actually Looks Like

Text by Taylor Sisk; Photography by Stacy Kranitz
How a Hostile America Undermined Its Black World War II Veterans

Matthew Delmont
The Gruesome Attraction of Prison Tourism Is Being Challenged at Last

By Hope Corrigan; Photos by Mark Murrmann

Can One Bay Area Housing Complex Radically Change Affordable Housing?

Text by Marisa Endicott; Photos by Amy Osborne
An Inside View of Wartime Ukraine

by Liam Kennedy
An Exodus From Ukraine: a Visual Diary

Peter Turnley
Photos Show Devastation Against Civilians in Ukraine

Samantha Michaels

The Fall of Kabul Through the Eyes of the Women Who Survived It

Words by Nadia Hashimi; Photographs by Mehri Jamshidi
A Look Back at 2021 in Photos, If You Can Bear It

Mark Murrmann
“This Is the Time to Have That Purpose Again”: Revisiting the Front Line of Second-Wave Feminism Through Photographs

Nina Hamberg as told to Madison Pauly; Photos by Nina Hamberg
It’s Not the Other America. It’s Just America.

Text by Mark Murrmann; Photos by Matt Black