Visual features
The Dawn Wall: El Capitan’s Most Unwelcoming Route
January 9, 2015
A graphic tracks an attempt by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson to free-climb the 3,000-foot Dawn Wall, a vertical sheet of mostly smooth granite that many believe is the hardest climb in the world.
How They Got Their Guns
October 3, 2015
Criminal histories and documented mental health problems did not prevent at least eight of the gunmen in 15 recent mass shootings from obtaining their weapons.
Voyages
September 23, 2015
Photo essays from around the world by Bieke Depoorter, George Georgiou, Glenna Gordon, Alec Soth, George Steinmetz and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
52 Places To Go in 2015
January 10, 2015
Untrammeled oases beckon, once-avoided destinations become must-sees, and familiar cities offer new reasons to visit.
A Walk Through the Gallery
February 6, 2015
This is the last weekend of an exhibition of Henri Matisse’s painted-paper works in New York. Can’t make it? Explore the art in this wall-to-wall experience.
Illuminating North Korea
June 10, 2015
A photographer parts the curtains on one of the world’s least-known places and brings back pictures of a country that is defined for many by mystery and war.
Walking New York
April 22, 2015
Sonny Rollins’s favorite corner of the Williamsburg Bridge. The best can-collecting route in Bushwick. See New Yorkers’ most memorable walks in the city, and contribute your own.
What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea
July 30, 2015
China has been feverishly piling sand onto reefs in the South China Sea for the last year, creating seven new islets in the region. It is straining geopolitical tensions that were already taut.
Desperate Crossing
September 3, 2015
For 733 migrants crammed aboard two tiny boats somewhere between Libya and Italy, a leaky hull was neither the beginning nor the end of their troubles.
Closing the Back Door to Europe
September 15, 2015
In recent months European nations have worked to block the main route taken by migrants fleeing war and upheaval.
A Gift to New York, in Time for the Pope
September 17, 2015
Pope Francis, the fourth pontiff to visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral, will find it brighter, cleaner and in better repair than it has been for decades.
Longform stories
A New Whitney
April 19, 2015
No longer a fortress in an uneasy city, the Whitney Museum of American Art opens itself up to a changed New York, a glittery emblem of new urban capital signaling a definitive shift in the city’s social geography.
Netanyahu and the Settlements
March 12, 2015
The Israeli leader’s settlement policy resembles his predecessors’, but it is a march toward permanence at a time when prospects for peace are few.
10 Years After Katrina
August 26, 2015
The New Orleans of 2015 has been altered, and not just by nature. In some ways, it is booming as never before. In others, it is returning to pre-Katrina realities of poverty and violence, but with a new sense of dislocation for many, too.
A Family Swept Up in the Migrant Tide
October 22, 2015
This summer, as the Majid family left Syria for Europe, The New York Times followed the group through weeks of defeat and triumph, disillusionment and determination.
The Displaced
November 5, 2015
Nearly 60 million people are currently displaced from their homes by war and persecution — more than at any time since World War II. Half are children. This multimedia journey in text, photographs and virtual reality tells the stories of three of them.
The Ride of Their Lives
March 11, 2015
At a time of urbanization and connectivity, rodeo and ranching may seem anachronistic, but to the Wright family, they represent the present and the future.
The Marshall Islands Are Disappearing
December 2, 2015
Most of the Marshall Islands rise less than six feet above sea level. For the residents, the destructive power of the rising seas is already an inescapable part of daily life.
Data-driven articles
Who’s Winning the Presidential Campaign?
September 16, 2015
History suggests that each party’s eventual nominee will emerge from 2015 in one of the top two or three positions, as measured by endorsements, fund-raising and polling.
Maps
How ISIS Expands
May 21, 2015
The Islamic State aims to build a broad colonial empire across many countries.
Syria After Four Years of Mayhem
March 12, 2015
A look at the conflict that has dismembered Syria and inflamed the region with one of the world’s worst religious and sectarian wars.
Mapping Segregation
July 8, 2015
New government rules will require all cities and towns receiving federal housing funds to assess patterns of segregation.
The World According To China
July 24, 2015
China’s enormous overseas spending has helped it displace the United States and Europe as the leading financial power in large parts of the developing world.
Motion Graphics and Video Stories
Out There: Fast and Light to Pluto
July 6, 2015
On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft will zip past Pluto and its five known moons. Nobody really knows what it will find.
Out There: Einstein’s Telescope
March 5, 2015
A century after Albert Einstein proposed that gravity could bend light, astronomers now rely on galaxies or even clusters of galaxies to magnify distant stars.
Five Views of 2 World Trade Center
July 5, 2015
BIG's shape-shifting, stacked tower design for 2 WTC fills in the monolithic, corporate campus of the World Trade Center complex when viewed from the south. Seen from the north, it wants to suggest the varied cityscape of Tribeca, and from Brooklyn may look, for better or worse, like a giant bunch of children's blocks, about to tumble over.
Assessing the Legality of Sandra Bland’s Arrest
July 22, 2015
A video released by Texas officials confirms accounts of a physical confrontation between Ms. Bland and a state trooper. But her arrest and cause of death remain in dispute.
Walking in War’s Path
August 22, 2015
Meet a wounded Israeli soldier, a 5-year-old stuck in Gaza and a 24-year-old in Gaza who finds comfort in horse-jumping. For them and many others, daily life is full of reminders of last year’s Israel-Gaza war.
The Top Tennis Player in the World Started Here
September 3, 2015
Long before he found his way to the top of the sport, where did Novak Djokovic learn to swing a racket? We visit the childhood courts of some of the world’s tennis greats.
Take Flight
December 10, 2015
The year’s best actors — starring Benicio Del Toro, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Jacob Tremblay, Jason Mitchell, Kristen Wiig, Lily Tomlin, Mya Taylor, Melissa McCarthy and Rooney Mara — lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick.
Data visualization
How Syrians Are Dying
September 14, 2015
Over four years of war has forced more than four million to flee the country, fueling a migrant crisis in the Middle East and Europe.
The Changing Nature of Middle-Class Jobs
February 22, 2015
The types of jobs that pay middle-class wages have shifted since 1980. Fewer of these positions are in male-dominated production occupations, while a greater share are in workplaces more open to women.
The Flight of Refugees Around the Globe
June 20, 2015
Mapping the migration of millions of people displaced around the world because of violence. Last year alone, about 14 million fled, according to the United Nations.
Is Greece Worse Off Than the U.S. During the Great Depression?
July 9, 2015
The economy has been in disarray. People have been out of work for years. The banks have been running out of money. It sounds a lot like the Great Depression in the United States. But it is Greece – and in some ways, the situation is worse.
New Horizons’ Pluto Flyby
July 14, 2015
After nine years and three billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped past Pluto and its five moons on Tuesday morning.
How Many Years Until the Home Run Record Falls?
April 3, 2015
What makes a baseball record unbreakable? Sometimes the game changes and that puts a record out of reach. Sometimes an exceptional performance is too dominant to be matched. When the two combine, the record could last for centuries.
Stacking Up the Presidential Fields
June 4, 2015
The Republican party has 16 major presidential candidates this cycle — three times the number of Democrats and more than any other field in recent history.