It seems like a no-brainer: People should get paid the same for the same work. So why do women around the world still have to fight so hard for that? U.S. Representative Hillary Scholten of Michigan speaks during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol to call for...
An invisible glue holding the universe together and launching telescopes into orbit: Those ideas came from women who elbowed their way into astronomy. Vera Rubin and other astronomers work on a telescope at Lowell Observatory in 1965. (Photo courtesy of Carnegie...
A new massive exhibition by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei asks us to reflect: What are the costs of mass production and global trade? A giant raft filled with refugees all made of polyurethane at Factory International at Aviva Studios in Manchester, England, part...
While Russia and Ukraine war over their shared border, other countries show that borders can come down or be changed without armed conflict. Workers remove the fence separating the British territory of Gibraltar from Spain on the first day of passport-free travel...
As Indigenous people in Peru harvest stories of their past tied to the rubber industry, governments and corporations find that history isn’t easy to erase. The Iron House or Casa de Fierro in Iquitos, bought in Paris and reassembled by a rubber baron in 1890....
When a nation provides international aid for medical supplies and doctors it can gain allies around the world. Refusing aid builds resentment. In Ethiopia, politician Shumete Gizaw hands over a box of medical supplies to Minister of Health Lia Tadesse, part of a...
Bombs fly after a cease-fire is announced in wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. Are these announcements real steps towards peace or just a distraction? The handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yizthak Rabin (left) and Yasser Arafat, chairman of Palestinian...
How we think about the world depends on history we have accepted as true. But that version of the past relies on stories based on partial truths. Two photos: On the left, by Yuganov Konstantin, a family celebrates Independence Day in the United States. On the right,...
With the resignation of Britain’s prime minister we look back to the last change of government to understand what the British public wants from its leaders. Former Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom since 2016 during their resignation speeches outside 10...
We document the dark times in our past so that later generations will know what happened. How else can we ensure they won’t happen again? Demonstrators carry a banner with photos of people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in a march...