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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.

Mark Murrmann
Nearly 100 Confederate Monuments Were Toppled Last Year. What Happened to Them?

Words and Photos by Melissa Lyttle
Huntington Beach Has Reopened, But the Aftermath of the Oil Spill Is Far From Over

Mark Murrmann
My Neighbor the Tear Gas Factory

Story and photos by Wil Sands

Be Your Own Boss: More Co-op Businesses Are Returning Workers’ Power

Alissa Quart
Will This Court Case End the Mining Industry’s 150-Year Dominance of the West?

Elizabeth Royte
“A Jewel for Our Community”: How LA Residents Are Reclaiming Industrial Spaces

Photographed and Reported by Stella Kalinina; Introduction by Jessica Kutz
How the George Floyd Uprising Was Framed for White Eyes

Ramenda Cyrus

The Shot in the Eye Squad

Photos and Interviews by Wil Sands
See Myanmar’s Crisis Through the Eyes of the Photographers Risking Their Lives to Bear Witness

Philip Blenkinsop
Inside the Community Patrols in San Francisco’s Chinatown

Samantha Michaels
“I Feel Very Sad Because We Are Exposed to Many Dangers”: Seeing a Mexican Migrant Camp Through a Child’s Eyes

César Rodríguez