Ebb and Flow: A Day in the Life of Manhattan Traffic Charles Komanoff has spent three years building a model of the traffic patterns in New York City. The result is an exhaustive accounting of every mile traveled, every slowdown encountered, and every hour wasted. Below, a rundown of traffic on an average weekday in [...]
The Global HIV/AIDS Timeline On June 5, 1981, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its first warning about a relatively rare form of pneumonia among a small group of young gay men in Los Angeles, which was later determined to be AIDS-related. since that time, millions more people have been infected [...]
Home and Away: Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties View the interactive graphic
Faces of the Dead Each United States service member who has died in Iraq or Afghanistan and been identified by the Defense Department is represented by a small square to the right. The squares are ordered by date of death, with the most recent deaths appearing in the upper left corner. Learn about the individuals [...]
War with Iraq: Country factfile Iraq, a country half the size of Sweden, has a rich history going back 7,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. Modern Iraq was born from a succession of civilizations that thrived along the fertile and flood plains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. In the 20th centry Ottoman rule was finally [...]
Waterworld: How the ocean made us who we are The ocean has shaped human history in deep and surprising ways. In a cave off the coast of South Africa, a pile of mussel, whelk, and giant periwinkle shells attests to the beginning of our romance with the sea — the remains of the earliest recorded [...]
The Gulf’s silent environmental crisis Ten miles off the coast of Louisiana, where the air tastes like gasoline and the ocean looks like brownie batter, Louisiana State University professor Ed Overton leans out of a fishing boat and dunks a small jar beneath the surface of the oil-covered water. View the interactive graphic
Arizona adopts controversial immigration enforcement law A series of events leading up to Arizona’s illegal immigration enforcement law. View the interactive graphic and timeline
The Final Moments A surge of natural gas exploded on the 32,000-ton Deepwater Horizon drilling platform on April 20, killing 11 of the 126 crewmembers aboard. View the interactive graphic
Key political and military moments since the 2003 invasion View the interactive video timeline
War Games: Seeing Iraq through the eyes of its children In Baghdad, the way children play often mirrors the world around them. AP photographer Hadi Mizban chronicles the evolution of play in one of Baghdad’s most violent neighborhoods. View the multimedia storytelling project
The trail and trials of Charles Samuel Charles Samuel, who pleaded guilty Friday to the murder of 17-year old Lily Burk, has a criminal record that dates back more than 30 years. This interactive timeline traces his history using court, jail and prison records, as well as other law enforcement sources. Samuel, 50, pleaded guilty [...]