Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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Al Bello / Getty The Savannah Bananas Take Banana Ball on Tour
Images of the Savannah Bananas baseball team, at home and on tour
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NASA 50 Years Ago: The Launch of Skylab
Photos of the launch and missions of America’s first space station
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Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty A California Superbloom
Recent colorful images from several locations across Southern California
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Julio Cortez / AP Photos: Damage From the Tornado Outbreak in Mississippi
Images from the small town of Rolling Fork, which was struck by a destructive EF4 tornado
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Mario Tama / Getty A Blanket of Snow for California
A collection of unusually snowy scenes from California, Nevada, and Arizona
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Marco Bello / Reuters Recovery and Cleanup in Florida After Hurricane Ian
Images from recent days showing the widespread damage, rescue workers and volunteers, and residents affected by the storm
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Giorgio Viera / AFP / Getty Early Photos of Hurricane Ian’s Landfall in Florida
Images from southwest Florida, showing some of the destruction caused by this unusually intense storm
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Amanda Rossman / USA Today Network / Reuters After the Floods: Recovery in Kentucky
Images from a region beset by record-setting floods, just starting the work of recovery
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Noah Berger / AP Scenes From California’s Fast-Moving Oak Fire
Images from California’s biggest wildfire this year
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Peter Zay / Anadolu Agency / Getty Photos: Protests Against the Overturning of Roe
Images of protest from Houston, Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, Denver, Raleigh, St. Louis, Portland, New York, Nashville, and many other locations
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Gina Riquier / NPS Photos: Devastating Floods Hit the Yellowstone Region
Heavy rains and melting snow filled rivers and carried away bridges, roads, and houses.
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Alyssa Pointer / Reuters The Fight for Roe
Images from some of the protests sparked by the release of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion
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Digital alteration by Ken Gonzales-Day for The Atlantic. … Now We Know Their Names
In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.
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Andrew Quilty / Agence VU’ The Betrayal
America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan added moral injury to military failure. But a group of soldiers, veterans, and ordinary citizens came together to try to save Afghan lives and salvage some American honor.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters Tracking Cougars to Figure Out Where to Build a Bridge
Stephanie Keith, a photographer with Reuters, recently joined members of the Olympic Cougar Project as they tracked a wild cougar named Lilu.
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Matt Black / Magnum The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains
Acute scarcity drives the search for water underground. But the West’s major aquifers are in trouble, too.
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Charlie Riedel / AP Biden Won Big With a Bad Hand
Relative to its strength in Congress, the Biden administration has proved outstandingly successful.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty How Do Democrats Recover From This?
Here are five ways in which they could salvage their election chances.
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Adriana Zehbrauskas for The Atlantic Trump’s Big Border Wall Is Now a Pile of Rusting Steel
Worth at least a quarter billion dollars, the steel bollards are a relic of the Trump era.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty What Joe Manchin’s ‘No’ Means for Biden’s Agenda
Build Back Better looks dead. Can Democrats rebuild it?
