Surfing the Embargo Roads and Kingdoms’ Alexa van Sickle braves sea urchins, jagged rocks, and myopic U.S. foreign policy to surf Havana’s Calle 70 break.
A Black Panther Guide To Algiers In the early 1970s, Algeria’s dictatorial president offered a home to revolutionaries from all over the world. Perhaps the most famous recipient of his generosity was the Black Panther “Minister of Information,” Eldrige Cleaver.
A Death in the Winelands Among the vineyards and fruit farms of South Africa’s Western Cape, the mysterious death of a farmworker reveals a violent history. Read More
The Ministry of Miraculous Recoveries: A Ukrainian Quadruple‑Amputee’s Fight for Veterans’ Rights Vadym Svyrydenko lost everything on a frigid battlefield in Ukraine. Now the war’s only quadruple amputee is tackling the veteran crisis.
From Lithuania, with love In February 2015, a cryptic email reached correspondent Ann Cooper from around the globe and across 28 years. It would pull her back into one of the most extraordinary reporting jobs in her career.
Life, Death, and Democracy in Brazil The assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco shocked the world. It may ensure black feminism is a national force at the Brazilian ballot box.
The Burrata Brothers Vito, Paolo, and Angelo Dicecca have traveled to more than 60 different countries in total—in an unwitting effort to show the world that good mozzarella is more about craft than country.
Run, Iman, Run: One woman’s journey to ISIS and back Iman Muzaeva recounts what it was like to live as an ISIS wife, first in Raqqa, then in Tal Afar—and how she finally mustered up the courage to run away.
An Elegy for Karachi’s Empress Market The dismantling of Karachi’s markets and informal shops isn’t just robbing the city of its soul. It threatens the survival of the very people that make it a city.
The Rebel Saint of South Sudan After 30 years of service in Sudan, often defying her superiors’ orders, a remarkable Indian nun is forced to ask herself whether she’s made any difference at all.
Lebanon’s Rave Revolution Lebanon’s protests are the largest and most ambitious in 15 years. Anthony Elghossain reports on the why, the how, and what went down in Beirut.
California’s Forage Wars In Mendocino County, these “guerilla gatherers” risk fines and jail time to keep food culture alive.
Caravan to the Unknown Photographers documenting the movement of Central American migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border share images of the people leaving everything they’ve known behind for the possibility of asylum in the United States.
Fighting for land in Guatemala Feeding global demand, palm-oil plantations in Guatemala have created a cycle of poverty—and conflict.
A Decade of Images in One Iraqi City: Q&A with Photographer Cengiz Yar Documentary photographer Cengiz Yar discusses his nine-year project documenting Mosul and the so-called war on terror’s long-term effect on the northern Iraqi city
Multi‑Frame: Q&A with Sarah Palmer Photographer Sarah Palmer on her process, blending images at Trump rallies, and accessing Celine Dion without a press pass.
Unbylined: A Q&A with a Yemeni Fixer Adel Al-Hasani, a Yemeni journalist, is helping foreign reporters cover the war in his country.
“Getting food to your fridge is a full‑time job in Venezuela” Venezuelans spend hours in long lines for basic groceries. Read More
Cambodia’s most diligent and heroic architect Dy Proeung built scale models of temples. When the Khmer Rouge took over, he had to hide his life’s work—and his identity.
‘I don’t know what will happen to us in Brazil’ Venezuelans fleeing poverty and food shortages are crossing into neighboring countries. They’re not always welcomed.
A Pittsburgh rabbi on the Tree of Life synagogue shooting “We all need to be respectful and kind and nice to each other.”
Meet the man fighting to preserve rural Utah lands How Mark Maryboy might have changed rural Utah—and America—forever.
“We are going to die collecting firewood” After escaping slaughter in Myanmar, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have no source of fuel but the wood they can collect from a rapidly disappearing forest.
Welcome to Rasta Hill at Guantanamo Bay Exploitative labor practices on the notorious military base in Cuba have generated the sole source of Caribbean culture in what is otherwise a bizarro America, complete with fast food, Bud Light, and a deeply entrenched culture of segregation.
This is what it’s like to be a cartoonist in the Central African Republic Didier Kassaï uses his cartoons to comment on the Central African Republic’s political instability and the lives affected by it.
Photo Essay: Inside New York’s Piaxtecos festival Not everyone with roots in the Mexican town of Piaxtla can make it home to celebrate their patron saint—so they created a New York version.