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2022: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics

This year, our visual stories covered a range of subjects: the invasion of Ukraine, abortion restrictions, fog, the Winter Olympics, illegal airfields in the Amazon, monsoons and the midterm elections. 2022: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics.

By The New York Times December 28, 2022

January

An abstract chart showing three lines overlaid on top of each other, representing coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths reported in the United States.
Early Data Hints at Omicron’s Potential Toll Across AmericaEarly Data Hints at Omicron’s Potential Toll
A map of the United States with many dots, each representing a temperature record set in 2021.
A Vivid View of Extreme Weather: Temperature Records in the U.S. in 2021A Vivid View of Extreme Weather
An image showing the headshots of 11 people who have been charged with sedition.
How Oath Keepers Are Accused of Plotting to Storm the CapitolOath Keepers Accused of Plotting to Storm the Capitol
A map visualizing the positions of Russian troops in the region in and around Ukraine.
How Russia’s Military Is Currently PositionedHow Russia’s Military Is Currently Positioned
Opinion
A map visualizing a convoluted congressional district in Illinois. It looks like a sideways pair of earmuffs, with some areas in various shades of purple.
You Can’t Judge a District Just by Looking at ItJudging a District
Opinion
A photo of a 72-year-old woman with short white hair. She is wearing a blue collared shirt and sitting in front of two windows. She is facing away from the viewer and her face is not visible.
The Women Who Had Abortions Before Roe v. WadeWomen Who Had Abortions Before Roe v. Wade
In print
An image of a two-page spread in a print newspaper. The page contains two hexagonal grids that allow the reader to draw in their own congressional districts in an imaginary state called Hexapolis.
Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power? Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power? “The basic mechanics of gerrymandering are actually pretty simple, but they can be hard to explain in words or even diagrams. We felt the best way for readers to understand these concepts would be to let them experiment themselves, so we created the fictional world of Hexapolis and let our readers be the ones to draw its political map. We learned so much while working on this project — not just about gerrymandering and redistricting, but also about how to design a game that is both fun and instructive.” — Ella Koeze

February

How the Quad Jump Is Changing Women’s Figure SkatingFigure Skating Is Changing
A photo of André Höflich snowboarding against the backdrop of a clear sky.
Escalating Tricks, Escalating FearsEscalating Tricks, Escalating Fears
A photo of a person strapped to a stretcher who is being carried into an orange helicopter by a team of five people. They're in the middle of a snowy landscape.
What Scares the World’s Most Daring OlympiansWhat Scares the World’s Most Daring Olympians
A photo montage of Eileen Gu during a part of her skiing performance. She is wearing red skiing gear.
See the Jumps, Twists and Grabs That Brought Eileen Gu Three Olympic MedalsHow Eileen Gu Won Three Olympic Medals
A photo montage of Nathan Chen during a part of his ice skating performance. He is wearing a a red top and black pants. People behind him are taking pictures.
How Nathan Chen Won Gold in Men’s Figure SkatingHow Nathan Chen Won Gold
A photo montage of Ayumu Hirano during a part of his snowboarding performance. He is snowboarding in front of a huge Beijing 2022 sign.
See How Ayumu Hirano Made Olympic History in Halfpipe to Win GoldHow Ayumu Hirano Made Olympic History
A collage of maps of Ukraine with arrows representing Russia's invasion and shaded areas indicating control by Russia or Ukraine.
Maps: Tracking the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Tracking the Russian Invasion of Ukraine “Being breaking news coverage, our Ukraine maps page has required intensive work on short response times. We have made more than a hundred maps showing a great diversity of angles to explain the geography of war. For these small, informative capsules, we have taken information from reports on the ground and the eyes in the sky through constellations of satellites.” — Marco Hernandez
Social Media Coverage of the Beijing OlympicsSocial Media Coverage of the Olympics
The “Mona Lisa,” overlaid with a text label that says “A painting of a person.”
The Hidden Image Descriptions Making the Internet AccessibleHidden Image Descriptions
How a Book Is MadeHow a Book Is Made
An illustration of a person's head and upper torso leaning forward with the internal organs visible. The brain and lungs are highlighted.
How Long Covid Exhausts the BodyHow Long Covid Exhausts the Body
A photo montage of a woman skiing on a slalom course.
Moments From the Beijing Winter Games, Frame by FrameThe Beijing Winter Games
An illustration of a sink filled with a marshy peatland. Above the sink are gray blobs with angry faces, representing carbon.
Meet Peat, the Unsung Hero of Carbon CaptureThe Hero of Carbon Capture
What It’s Like to Ski Nearly Blind What It’s Like to Ski Nearly Blind “If you ask any winter athlete what event at the Olympics scares them the most, a fair share will tell you that it’s downhill skiing. Careening down a mountain at 70 miles per hour leaves little room for error, and Millie Knight, a British Paralympic skier, does it with only 5 percent of her vision. We met Millie in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, four months before the Winter Paralympics in Beijing, and we knew her story was special. ‘I ski with my ears,’ Millie told us. Using video from a GoPro strapped to Millie’s chest and audio recordings between her and her guide, we wanted to recreate for our readers Millie’s experience on the mountain.” — Emily Rhyne
A map of the continental United States. Some areas are highlighted in yellow, representing places with a higher chance of snow.
How Much Snow Will Fall Where You Live?How Much Snow Will Fall Where You Live?
A grid of 137 company logos in squares, with 75 of the squares highlighted to indicate that the companies planned to require vaccinations for some workers.
Who’s Requiring Workers to Be Vaccinated?Who’s Requiring Workers to Be Vaccinated?
An abstract chart with many thin lines reaching upward and to the right. One thick line is highlighted in bright blue.
Four Charts That Reveal Tom Brady’s GreatnessFour Charts That Reveal Tom Brady’s Greatness

March

In print
A two-page newspaper spread featuring a map of Ukraine with blue dots marking locations where civilian structures were damaged.
Russia’s Attacks on Civilian Targets Have Obliterated Everyday Life in Ukraine Russia’s Attacks on Civilian Targets “In the weeks after the invasion, it wasn’t yet clear that civilian infrastructure was being targeted and destroyed. Working off photos, videos and press releases, we categorized hundreds of attacks and vetted them against prewar maps, satellite images and reporting.” — Jon Huang
A map of the United States with highlighted areas indicating high concentrations of plants and animals at risk of extinction.
This Map Shows Where Biodiversity Is Most at Risk in AmericaWhere Biodiversity Is Most at Risk
The painting “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,” which depicts a farmer and a shepherd working on a cliff overlooking the sea, where the mythical Icarus has fallen.
A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain SightA Poem (and a Painting) About Suffering
A map of a section of Manhattan's Chinatown district with several streets labeled in English and in Chinese characters.
Manhattan’s Chinese Street Signs Are DisappearingManhattan’s Chinese Street Signs

April

In print
A two-page newspaper spread featuring a photo collage of politicians, celebrities and other notable people, overlaid with quotes from Tucker Carlson describing them, and below that a grid with boxes representing episodes of “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” The grid highlights episodes in which Tucker Carlson discussed topics such as the end of Western civilization, discrimination against white people, and an elite ruling class.
Inside the Apocalyptic Worldview of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ Inside ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ “We wanted to do more than just anecdotally show some of the racist things Tucker Carlson had said over the years. So we set out to curate our own database of the show by hand. The data left us with powerful quantitative evidence that ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ is a platform for mainstreaming white nationalism and other extremism.” — Karen Yourish
A three-dimensional map of the streets and buildings of the Ukrainian city of Kyiv.
How Kyiv Has Withstood Russia’s AttacksHow Kyiv Has Withstood Russia’s Attacks
An illustration of a robot wearing sneakers, standing in front of a Wordle grid.
WordleBot: Improve Your Wordle StrategyWordleBot
‘It’s Super Spectacular.’ See How the Tonga Volcano Unleashed a Once-in-a-Century Shockwave.A Once-in-a-Century Shockwave
An illustration of a woman in a housecoat pushing a shopping cart filled with bottles and jugs. Floating around her are plastic bags, cosmetic and food containers and other plastic items.
Trash or Recycling? Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing.Why Plastic Keeps Us Guessing
A person wearing a mask and standing with arms akimbo on an upper floor of a multistory building, seen from outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Under Lockdown in ChinaUnder Lockdown in China

May

How Formula 1’s Car Redesign Is Changing RacingFormula 1’s Car Redesign
An abstract chart with yellow dots and dotted lines connecting them.
What’s Your Rate of Inflation?What’s Your Rate of Inflation?
A woman seen from behind wearing a patterned shirt and skirt and a red headscarf, carrying a black bag in one hand and a jug in the other, as she walks down a street lined with destroyed buildings and rubble.
Haiti’s Lost BillionsHaiti’s Lost Billions
An illustration of five white lines cutting across a dark background, with dots indicating crucial moments in a timeline.
78 Long Minutes78 Long Minutes
Opinion
A concrete plaque with the words “Black Lives Matter” stenciled on it lies on the ground broken into several pieces.
George Floyd and the Fading Signs of Black Lives MatterThe Fading Signs of Black Lives Matter
An unlabeled, horizontal bar chart with red bars of ascending increasing length.
Where Death Rates Rose the Most During the PandemicDeath Rates During the Pandemic
In print
A New York Times front page spread featuring a large map of the United States overlaid with black dots representing Covid-19 deaths. The headline reads “One Million: A Nation's Immeasurable Grief.”
How America Lost One Million People How America Lost One Million People “After working on stories for so many Covid milestones as each 100,000 deaths passed, we knew we had to do something really special to commemorate the one million people who passed away from Covid. Deaths from Covid had begun to feel like just a grimly increasing number without connection to the individuals who were dying. By showing every death as a single dot, we hoped to convey that every death was an important individual tragedy. But as a whole, the losses had affected every part of America and every part of American society. By arranging the dots into data visualizations, we hoped to show that these losses had not affected all parts of the country equally and there were important patterns in who had died.” — Albert Sun
A man biking by the seaside, with deep blue water, ships and a resort city in the background.
From Italy to Croatia on Two WheelsFrom Italy to Croatia on Two Wheels
A map of a section of Ukraine with an arrow indicating the movement of Russian troops.
Russia’s Shrinking WarRussia’s Shrinking War
A map of the United States with various states fully or partly shaded in green, light red and dark red to indicate the legal status of abortion.
Tracking the States Where Abortion Is Now BannedTracking Abortion Bans

June

A map of the United States with areas shaded in light to dark purple to represent the distance a person would need to drive to reach an abortion clinic.
How Abortion Bans Will Ripple Across AmericaHow Abortion Bans Will Ripple Across America
American troops wearing camouflage uniforms and helmets stand around a white bus on a sunny day at a military base. Three detainees wearing orange beanies and jumpsuits are held by the neck or back by the troops.
The Secret Pentagon Photos of the First Prisoners at Guantánamo BayThe First Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay
Opinion
Soviet soldiers in overcoats stand in a ravine digging graves during World War II.
Who Will Remember the Horrors of Ukraine?Who Will Remember the Horrors of Ukraine?
Three children, a young woman and an older woman, all Black, stand in front of a car for a family photo.
See the Black Family Heirlooms That Carry HistoryBlack Family Heirlooms That Carry History
A crowd of people protesting at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with about 10 in the foreground highlighted in white.
How the Proud Boys Breached the Capitol on Jan. 6: Rile Up the NormiesHow the Proud Boys Breached the Capitol
A triptych of black-and-white photos of Chinese city streets. In each photo, several people are in color and highlighted with orange boxes around their bodies.
China’s Surveillance State Is Growing. These Documents Reveal How.China’s Surveillance State
The New Geography of the Russian Elite The New Geography of the Russian Elite “As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continued evolving, we started to investigate thousands of private flight records to plot out the new geography of Russia’s superwealthy. Post-invasion sanctions forced the Russian elite to abandon the European-preferred destinations like Paris, Milan and Geneva, which used to be their playgrounds, to go to Dubai, Azerbaijan and Turkey instead, as the world turned its back on them.” — Pablo Robles
A young woman with straight blond hair looking at the camera with a resolute expression. She is wearing a black shirt and a tan cardigan.
They Searched Online for Abortion Clinics. They Found Anti-Abortion Centers.Searching Online for Abortion Clinics
Six highlighted sentences, each on a separate line. They read as follows: “The attacker stole a gun. The attacker used an extended magazine. The attacker was under 21 and legally bought a gun. The attacker was suicidal. The attacker expressed an intent to harm. The attacker purchased a gun from a private seller.”
The Mass Shootings Where Stricter Gun Laws Might Have Made a DifferenceWhere Stricter Gun Laws Might Have Made a Difference
Larry David holding a bottle of Perrier sparkling water prominently in one hand and grimacing as he stands in front of an open refrigerator in an episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
Anatomy of a Product PlacementAnatomy of a Product Placement
A graphic of yellow branches.
Who Stops a ‘Bad Guy With a Gun’?Who Stops a ‘Bad Guy With a Gun’?
Three pages of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, with a few sentences highlighted digitally in yellow.
The Dobbs v. Jackson Decision, AnnotatedThe Dobbs v. Jackson Decision
A grid of 24 black-and-white photos of places in Ukraine where Russian munitions lie on the ground digitally colored in yellow.
What Hundreds of Photos of Weapons Reveal About Russia’s Brutal War StrategyRussia’s Brutal War Strategy

July

A map of the continental United States with darker yellow and orange areas representing dangerously high heat.
Tracking Dangerous Heat in the U.S.Tracking Dangerous Heat in the U.S.
Opinion
A 3-D illustration of a staircase with tiny green and yellow figures, representing children of immigrants and children of people born in the United States, standing on each step.
Why So Many Children of Immigrants Rise to the TopWhy So Many Children of Immigrants Rise to the Top
Meryl Streep’s One Weird TrickMeryl Streep’s One Weird Trick
Opinion
A high-magnification image of the rings inside a Douglas fir, with black lines drawn between the rings.
This 500-Year-Old Tree in California Has a Story to TellA 500-Year-Old Tree in California
How Sign Language Evolves as Our World DoesHow Sign Language Evolves
Two girls, ages 6 and 7, wearing powwow dancing outfits stand in a parking lot and smile at the camera. Their dresses are adorned with colorful sequins, beads and tassels.
Powwow Season in Full BloomPowwow Season in Full Bloom
In print
A two-page newspaper spread featuring multiple views of the building's structure and layout and photographs of the fire.
A 3-D model of an apartment building, with arrows indicating the path of smoke through the building during a fire.
The Chain of Failures That Left 17 Dead in a Bronx Apartment Fire The Chain of Failures in a Bronx Fire “Our goal for this investigation was to explain how the smoke from a contained fire on a third floor of a high-rise building killed over a dozen people as far as 12 stories away. We built a 3-D model and used 911 call records, F.D.N.Y. dispatch tapes, open-source videos, on-site visits, and collaborated with fire scientists to create a detailed minute-by-minute timeline.” — Anjali Singhvi

August

A scatter plot with dots on a rainbow gradient over a black upward trend line.
Vast New Study Shows a Key to Reducing Poverty: More Friendships Between Rich and PoorA Key to Reducing Poverty
A map of Taiwan encircled by three red arcs representing a possible blockade by China.
How China Could Choke TaiwanHow China Could Choke Taiwan
The Coming California MegastormCalifornia Megastorm
A small plane flying by a rainforest.
The Illegal Airstrips Bringing Toxic Mining to Brazil’s Indigenous LandToxic Mining on Brazil’s Indigenous Land
An illustration of the Orion spacecraft, with its component sections broken out.
How 3 NASA Missions Could Send Astronauts Back to the MoonNASA’s Artemis Missions
People young and old gathered on a street in Anacostia for what appears to be a community event on a warm day. Some sit in folding chairs in a parking lot, and there are tents in the background.
Can Anacostia Build a Bridge Without Displacing Its People?Can Anacostia Build a Bridge Without Displacing Its People?
A table listing food items, their prices in 2019 and 2022 and the percent price increase over those years. Canola oil, with a 159 percent increase, and all-purpose flour, with a 61 percent increase, are highlighted.
That Dinner Tab Has Soared. Here Are All the Reasons. A Soaring Dinner Tab “As inflation hits record highs, diners everywhere are paying more for food this year than ever. The check delivered at meal’s end shows those prices, but not the dozens of increased expenses that prompted them. So, together with Priya Krishna, a Food reporter, we designed a check that tallied up the many costs and forces driving up menu prices at a single restaurant. As you read the story, ingredient names or other keywords are highlighted on our made-up check, which neatly shows a comparison of how much they used to cost before the pandemic versus now, along with the margin increase.” — Umi Syam
A woman with short gray hair, wearing glasses, a black blazer, a red shirt and pearls sits in a classroom and smiles at the camera.
What’s Actually Being Taught in History ClassWhat’s Actually Being Taught in History Class
A collage of notification bubbles that read, for example, “Your Grade: Poor,” “You’ve been idle for five seconds” and “You’re Being Tracked.”
The Rise of the Worker Productivity ScoreThe Rise of the Worker Productivity Score
The Tennis Ball TossThe Tennis Ball Toss
A map of Taiwan with several arrows depicting the paths of Chinese military aircraft reported to have entered Taiwan's Air Defense Identification Zone or to have crossed the Taiwan Strait median line.
Maps: Tracking Tensions Between China and TaiwanTensions Between China and Taiwan

September

An illustration of many folders, documents and files scattered across a blank background.
What the F.B.I. Seized From Mar-a-Lago, IllustratedWhat the F.B.I. Seized From Mar-a-Lago
A map of Europe with heavy pink arrows cutting across countries to represent exports of wood pellets in 2021.
Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for EnergySacrificing Ancient Forests for Energy
The Elusive Future of San Francisco’s FogSan Francisco’s Fog
How China Targets the Global Fish SupplyHow China Targets the Global Fish Supply
A grid of faces of members of Congress, with some of the boxes highlighted.
Stock Trades Reported by Nearly a Fifth of Congress Show Possible ConflictsPossible Stock Trade Conflicts in Congress
A collage of redacted documents overlaid on the Kremlin.
‘They Are Watching’: Inside Russia’s Vast Surveillance StateRussia’s Vast Surveillance State
Opinion
An aerial view of downtown Houston with an orange overlay on an area threatened by a highway expansion plan.
Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Highway Mr. Biden, Tear Down This Highway “For this guest essay, we partnered with Adam Paul Susaneck, an architectural designer who has compiled visual evidence of the destructive effects of decades of urban highway construction. He argues that urban highways have been used, time and again, to reinforce racial segregation in American cities.” — Jeremy Ashkenas
Fire and Fear in South UkraineFire and Fear in South Ukraine
Illustrations of an airphane, a waterfall, a fan, rain and wind on a brown background.
Can Brown Noise Turn Off Your Brain?Can Brown Noise Turn Off Your Brain?
‘Putin Is a Fool’: Intercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in DisarrayIntercepted Calls Reveal Russian Army in Disarray
A table listing one patient's abortion expenses. The total cost shown is $4,884.
What It Costs to Get an Abortion NowWhat It Costs to Get an Abortion Now

October

The Monsoon Is Becoming More ExtremeThe Monsoon Is Becoming More Extreme
A collage of a model wearing a white dress and two-foot-tall black bunny ears, a purse with a Furby on it, a high heel with the head of a flamingo on its toe, and another model wearing black star stickers all over her arms.
Wow Moments: Highlights and Surprises From Fashion WeekSurprises From Fashion Week
A collage of social media posts in which Republican midterm candidates questioned or spread misinformation about the 2020 election.
Over 370 Republican Candidates Have Cast Doubt on the 2020 ElectionCandidates Who Cast Doubt on the 2020 Election
Opinion
Three rows of squares of various sizes, each containing smaller squares in shades of purple and yellow.
Abortions Are Legal in Ethiopia. But Half of These Clinics Won’t Provide Them.Abortions in Ethiopia
See Everything the White House Wanted, and Everything It GotWhat the White House Wanted
What Hurricane Ian Destroyed in a Florida Beach TownWhat Hurricane Ian Destroyed
Maps of New York's Eighth Congressional District in 2020 and 2022, shown side by side for comparison.
Hey, New Yorkers: Meet Your Neighborhood’s New Congressional DistrictNew York’s New Congressional Districts
Several people stand in a dark exhibition room at the Museum of the Communist Party of China. On the wall are nine framed photos, each of which include Xi Jinping.
How Xi Jinping Remade China in His ImageHow Xi Jinping Remade China
An illustration of an umpire's view of a baseball batter at home plate, with a yellow square indicating the strike zone.
You Be the UmpYou Be the Ump
Stevie Wonder wearing sunglasses and a printed fringed shirt throws his head back as he sings and plays a keyboard.
50 Years Ago, Stevie Wonder Heard the FutureStevie Wonder Heard the Future
Hu Jintao being escorted out of a Chinese Communist Party meeting behind a row of party officials who do not react.
What Happened to Hu Jintao?What Happened to Hu Jintao?
Opinion
A blue cube, a magenta cone and a yellow sphere sitting behind a computer screen that depicts them as a blue square, a magenta triangle and a yellow circle.
Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping ProblemScience Has a Photoshopping Problem
A diptych of a black-and-white portrait of five Supreme Court justices from 1907 and a color portrait of four current Supreme Court justices from October 2022.
The Portrait of JusticeThe Portrait of Justice

November

The Visions of Octavia ButlerThe Visions of Octavia Butler
A map of the United States highlighting the eight states where election results were not called until after election night during the 2020 presidential race.
It Took Two Weeks to Call Every State in 2020. This Is When to Expect Results This Year.When to Expect Election Results This Year
A map of the 2022 U.S. Senate race results, showing how counties' vote margins have shifted when compared with the 2020 presidential vote.
2022 Midterm Election Results2022 Midterm Elections Results
An abstract chart showing several pink bubbles, following a trend line up toward the right. One bubble is highlighted with a black border.
How News About Maricopa County’s Ballot-Counting Machines Went ViralMaricopa County’s Ballot-Counting Machines
A photo collage showing the headshots of some of the hundreds of Republican candidates who questioned the 2020 election and ran in major midterm races this year.
See Which 2020 Election Deniers and Skeptics Won and Lost in the Midterm ElectionsWhich Election Deniers Won?
A photograph showing an altar to bless merchants. Several mini figurines, tea sets and a pair of wrapped chopsticks are on display.
American RitualsAmerican Rituals
Extreme Heat Will Change Us Extreme Heat Will Change Us “We used sensors to measure the risk for workers in two of the hottest cities in the world: Kuwait City and Basra, Iraq. We carried loggers that recorded the temperature and humidity everywhere we went, and we fitted workers with heart rate sensors to measure the stress their bodies were under as they worked in the heat. Thermal imaging also revealed how dangerously hot many objects were — including a tire at a children’s playground that was a scorching 180 degrees.” — Josh Holder
A looping animation of a woman surrounded by moving geometric objects. The objects represent the many areas of the body that can experience symptoms of a panic attack, such as the heart, stomach and throat.
The Anatomy of a Panic AttackThe Anatomy of a Panic Attack
An abstract map shaped like the United States and constructed out of red and blue cubes. Each cube represents one seat in the 2022 House election.
How Republicans Won the HouseHow Republicans Won the House
A photo of a woman pumping breast milk while sitting at a desk. Two laptops, a cup of tea and sheets of paper with handwritten and typed notes are on the desk in front of her.
What It Really Takes to Breastfeed a BabyWhat It Really Takes to Breastfeed
What Riding in a Self-Driving Tesla Tells Us About the Future of AutonomyRiding in a Self-Driving Tesla
A diagram of a bridge with a railway section and a roadway section. A truck bomb detonates on the roadway, causing an explosion on a passing train on the adjacent railway.
How Ukraine Blew Up a Key Russian BridgeHow Ukraine Blew Up a Key Russian Bridge
A collage of old family photographs on a black background.
A Mystery Hidden in a Family PhotographA Mystery in a Family Photograph
Eighteen grids with pink, green and yellow squares.
World Cup 2022: How Teams Can Advance to the Round of 16World Cup 2022
Christian Pulisic scoring a goal during a World Cup match. The photo has been digitally altered to show the path of the ball in yellow.
Watch Christian Pulisic Send the U.S. Past Iran and Into the Knockout RoundsWatch Christian Pulisic Send the U.S. Past Iran

December

A map of Atlanta's suburbs with several voting precincts highlighted in purple.
These Georgia Precincts Were Red. Then Blue. Now They Are Purple.These Georgia Precincts Were Red. Then Blue. Now They Are Purple.
What Makes a Movie the Greatest of All Time?What Makes a Movie the Greatest of All Time?
Players bumping into one another during a soccer match. The soccer ball has been digitally removed from the photo.
Spot the BallSpot the Ball
Opinion
An illustration of a dead body lying on a brown surface inside a cylindrical container. Flowers are arranged around and on top of the body, which is wrapped in a cotton shroud.
If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your BodyGive Your Body Back to Nature
Soldiers crouching behind a military vehicle on a road.
Caught on Camera, Traced by Phone: The Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in BuchaThe Russian Military Unit That Killed Dozens in Bucha
A collage of a splash-backed poison frog, a white-footed tamarin, a Bornean peacock pheasant and a Honduran white bat on a black background.
Animals Are Running Out of Places to LiveAnimals Are Running Out of Places to Live
In print
A two-page newspaper spread featuring a diagram of Mar-a-Lago and photos of Donald Trump with visitors.
Inside Mar-a-Lago, Where Thousands Partied Near Secret Files Inside Mar-a-Lago “To best show where classified material was stored in Mar-a-Lago, we chose to create a 3-D tour of the complex. During the process of reporting, thousands of drawings were sent to us by the town. All of these drawings had to be sorted by relevance and time to figure out which ones — of the sometimes conflicting examples — best represented the actual structures. We also found out that Trump’s office lacked any documentation. But luckily, those specific rooms had previously served as a bridal suite, providing an additional avenue for finding photographs and videos to help map out the space.” — Mika Gröndahl
A cashier in a pink coat accepts U.S. dollars from someone out of frame. The dollars are highlighted in a circle.
North Korea Wants Dollars. It’s a Sign of Trouble.North Korea Wants Dollars
A map of Washington, D.C., with areas shaded in different colors to show different emissions footprints.
The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood, MappedThe Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood
An aerial view of Russian fortifications dug into Ukrainian land.
Defenses Carved Into the EarthDefenses Carved Into the Earth
An aerial view of a city with many buildings destroyed or damaged. A vehicle that is on fire travels down the road that cuts through the center of the image.
Putin’s War: The Inside Story of a CatastrophePutin’s War
Three smartphone screens side by side, each displaying Chinese-language Twitter.
How Bots Pushing Adult Content Drowned Out Chinese Protest TweetsHow Bots Drowned Out Chinese Protest Tweets
A collage of Tom Brady with people in their 70s and 80s.
The Tom Brady of Other JobsThe Tom Brady of Other Jobs