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A group of U.S. service members leave a medical examiner's disaster morgue on May 2 to head to their hotels for the night.

‘We Do This for the Living.’ Inside New York’s Citywide Effort to Bury Its Dead

Much of New York City has been idle since the coronavirus lockdown was decl...

Much of New York City has been idle since the coronavirus lockdown was declared two months ago, but not the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, an 88-acre shipping and distribution hub built in the 1960s on...

Zoom Parties, Missed Proms, Uncertain Futures. High School Seniors Share What It’s Like to Come of Age During a Pandemic

Gen Xers graduated as 9/11 changed the world forever. Millennials graduated...

Gen Xers graduated as 9/11 changed the world forever. Millennials graduated into a job market decimated by the Great Recession. Now, in 2020, Gen Z could very well be renamed Generation Pandemic. The young adults...

Claire, with River and Anouk, in the bedroom

'You Feel Trapped and Overwhelmed': Mothers Understood Isolation Before the Pandemic

Confinement, isolation, remaining homebound: these are not new experiences ...

Confinement, isolation, remaining homebound: these are not new experiences for mothers. A baby’s many needs are a legion of tender leashes, tethering a mother to a child who needs her body to be fed and...

An international border runs between Konstanz, Germany, and Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, but residents moved freely between the municipalities before the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, in hopes of limiting infections, officials erected first one fence and, two weeks later, a second one, with a gap of several feet in between. The goal was to prevent the physical contact that these young couples managed on April 18, along a stretch where there’s still only a single barrier.

A German Photographer Captures Ordinary People Adapting to Life Under Lockdown

When Ingmar Björn Nolting saw his grandmother in early April, it was from a...

When Ingmar Björn Nolting saw his grandmother in early April, it was from a distance of five meters. Roswitha Erler, 80, lives in the northwestern German town of Minden and has been battling breast cancer—putting...

7:58 A.M. Waking up after turning off at least ten alarms

This Italian Photographer Is Documenting Her Life in the Coronavirus Lockdown

Photographer Lucia Buricelli lives alone in a studio apartment in Milan. On...

Photographer Lucia Buricelli lives alone in a studio apartment in Milan. On March 9, Italy became the first democratic country since the Second World War to impose a nationwide lockdown, extending measures that had already...

Gap, Ariz. | Nellie Yellowhorse, 90, at her family’s ranch home in the Navajo Nation; she lives with her two elderly sisters in the house, which has no running water

America’s Clean Water Crisis Goes Far Beyond Flint. There’s No Relief in Sight

This project was supported by the Pulitzer Center The wheels are still atta...

This project was supported by the Pulitzer Center The wheels are still attached to the house trailer that Pamela Rush calls home, but the 49-year-old mother of two is trapped. A lifelong resident of Lowndes...

The staff of the Capital Gazette, on Dec. 9, 2018, in Washington.

One Year After Surviving a Mass Shooting, the Capital Gazette Journalists Refuse to Be Silenced

Rachael Pacella had been doing better. No longer did any little sound—the b...

Rachael Pacella had been doing better. No longer did any little sound—the buzz of a cell phone, a door opening—cause her, to twitch. She wasn’t freezing in crosswalks. The therapy and medication helped. So did...