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Yi Liu / BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition Winners of the 2020 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition
Top photos from this year’s contest, showcasing the Earth’s biodiversity
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Timo Lenzen Putin Is Well on His Way to Stealing the Next Election
RIP democracy
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Brazil’s Pandemic Is Just Beginning
The hardest-hit country in Latin America is facing a “perfect storm,” as inequality collides with COVID-19.
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Carlos Becerra / Getty Venezuela’s Coronavirus Crisis Is Different
The pandemic has hit the developed world hard. How will it affect countries with fewer resources?
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Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week: Glass Cabins, Ghost Lights, Trumpet Mask
A moonset over Maine, tall grass in a Roman park, a mass grave in Brazil, partitioned tables at a Bangkok restaurant, a thunderstorm in Bordeaux, triathlete training in Belgium, and much more
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Najeebah Al-Ghadban The Tensions Underlying Pakistan’s Ramadan Decision
The country has exempted Ramadan gatherings from its lockdown, illustrating the temptation, and the risks, of coming together.
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Visionhaus / Getty Animals During the Pandemic
Images of animals around the globe, both affected by, and coping with, a suddenly changed world
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic China’s Bargain on Global Influence Is Paying Off
The U.S. gives more money than China to many international organizations. So why do they seem more sympathetic to Beijing?
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Has Revealed the Weakness of Strongmen
Women leaders are a symptom of a political system’s success, not necessarily its cause.
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NASA / JPL / University of Arizona Jupiter and Its Galilean Moons
A virtual photo trip through the dancing spheres of Jupiter and its four major moons, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
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Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis via Getty Celebrating Ramadan Before the Pandemic
A collection of historical Ramadan prayer services, dinners, and gatherings around the world, leading up to the coronavirus lockdown
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Chan Srithaweeporn / Getty Arizona: Images of the Grand Canyon State
A few glimpses of Arizona’s landscape, and some of the animals and people calling it home
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Yumna Al-Arashi We Are All Living the Same Moment
Photographers around the world show us their view from Taiwan, Italy, Brazil, and beyond.
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SongJoon Cho / Bloomberg / Getty I Have Seen the Future—And It’s Not the Life We Knew
Cities around the world might slowly be coming back to life, but there’s no going back to “normal.”
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Celina Pereira You Should Politicize the Coronavirus
The pandemic raises unavoidable and legitimate political questions. We should be suspicious of any attempt to dismiss them.
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Gary Hershorn / Getty Photos of the Week: Pineapple Toss, Deserted Temple, Bioluminescent Waves
Mount Fuji at sunset, a burial in Tijuana, a prison riot in Peru, ballroom-dancing practice in Australia, a social-distancing motorbike in India, and much more
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Courtesy of Denise Rendor The Fragility of the Global Nurse Supply Chain
The pandemic has exposed how richer countries, including the United States, rely on health-care workers from poorer ones, such as the Philippines.
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AFP / Getty Photos: Hard at Work, Despite the Pandemic
The news agency Agence France-Presse recently asked photojournalists around the world to take portraits of workers at their job, and to ask them questions about their current situation, amid varying coronavirus lockdowns.
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Andrea Mantovani / The New York Times The ‘Terrible Moral Choice’ of Reopening
European leaders have set out plans for restarting their societies. But the choice isn’t theirs; it belongs to individual citizens.
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Odd Andersen / AFP / Getty Balcony Seats: Watching Movies From Apartment Buildings
Recent images of movies being shown to apartment dwellers in Germany, Colombia, Brazil, and France during coronavirus lockdowns
