In the aftermath of a hurricane, the residents of western North Carolina are coming to terms with a new reality.

The decline of printed newspapers has resulted in news deserts, “ghost” publications, and increased public mistrust of the media. Undeterred, local journalists soldier on.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Climate change has left a graveyard of abandoned ski resorts on the Italian Alps—and a dwindling population of gravekeepers.

A blast from a now-unimaginable past

Climate change is making weather more extreme, and these two veteran photojournalists were on the frontlines in 2018.

Capturing a lost era in Sanlé Sory’s studio portraits in Burkina Faso

How modern women navigate Iran’s theocracy

Under President Rodrigo Duterte, thousands have died at the hands of police or the masked vigilantes who roam Manila's vast slums.

Today, immigrants threatened with deportation grapple with depression, anxiety, and PTSD.

On a remote spit of land in the Bay of Bengal, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fighting for their lives.

Buried beneath the Great Plains lies a decommissioned Air Force control center that was once powerful enough to lay waste to the Soviet Union.