A rebel army is building a rare-earth empire on China's border

The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it’s supplying essential minerals to manufacturers around the world.

CLIENT: Bloomberg

AD: Chandra Illick

AI and Consciousness

CLIENT: Al Majalla

AD: Sara Loane

Southeast Asia Is Starting to Choose

Why the Region Is Leaning Toward China.

CLIENT: Foreign Affairs

AD: Michaela Staton

In ‘UnWorld,’ humans try to cure grief with technology

Jayson Greene’s debut novel considers the limits of artificial intelligence and its ability to simplify our lives

CLIENT: Washington Post

AD: Chris Rukan, Beth Broadwaters

Manufacturing come back

Killed cover for the Economist

CLIENT: The Economist

AD: Ben Shmulevitch

So Many Tears

A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System

An investigative history of the scandal-plagued company shines a light on a health care industry riddled with corruption and criminality.

CLIENT: TNR

AD: Andy Omel

Mushrooms, midlife and me

Psychedelics have been found to combat depression and anxiety. Can they expand the post-menopausal mind?

CLIENT: The Observer

AD: Jo Cochrane, Paul Tansley

AI in the Work Palce

How WSJ readers use AI at work.

CLIENT: WSJ

AD: Siung Tiga

Web Slinging Technology

CLIENT: Tufts Magazine

AD: Heather Burke

The Immigrant Families Jailed in Texas

Children have long been put in migrant detention if they were apprehended at the border. Today, lawyers have found, families are being removed from stable lives in the United States.

CLIENT: New Yorker

AD: Aurora Colon

Stories, systems, and solidarity

A participatory process to define a shared narrative goal for systemic equality

CLIENT: Harmony Labs

AD: Paul Johnson

Israel aims to be the world’s arms dealer

As Europe boosts defense spending, Israeli producers see an opportunity for arms sales—and a chance to become more self-sufficient.

CLIENT: Bloomberg

AD: Rebecca Wilkinson

Palantir’s Call to Arms Is Also a Sales Pitch

The Technological Republic, a new book from Palantir CEO Alex Karp, proposes a dark and dismal future.

CLIENT: Bloomberg

AD: Madeline Montoya

From headaches to tics, how mass nocebo effects spread real symptoms

Centuries ago, witches and shamans would mutter curses with the intention of spreading illness. Today, certain social media feeds may serve the same purpose.

CLIENT: New Scientist

AD: Ryan Wills

Debt Has Always Been the Ruin of Great Powers. Is the U.S. Next?

From Habsburg Spain to Trump’s America, there’s no escaping the consequences of spending more on interest payments than on defense.

CLIENT: WSJ

AD: Caitlin Choi

Showing Passion for Your Job Is Good for Your Career—if You’re a Man

A study finds that for some women, being passionate about their job can hurt them rather than help them.

CLIENT: WSJ

AD: Siung Tjis

Italy's release of a warlord puts Meloni's entanglements with Libya under scrutiny

"Il caso Al-Masri" raises serious questions over Rome's dealings with Libya.

CLIENT: POLITICO

AD: Ellen Boonen

‘Which Time Were You Lying?’: The Great CEO Flip-Flop Over Trump Hits Davos

The World Economic Forum’s extravaganza thought it was done with Trump. Now he’s back — and heads of state, Wall Street billionaires and tech moguls are falling in line.

CLIENT: Bloomberg News

AD: Chandra Illick

What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried TikTok

In 2016 Cal Newport went viral for telling people to quit social media. in 2024 he ignored his own advice.

CLIENT: New Yorker

AD: Nicholas Konrad

Johnny Carson and the Fantasy of America

The late-night host looms over the culture to this day, in part because he knew how to mix comedy and sex. But there was a darkness at the heart of his appeal.

CLIENT: NYT

AD: Jennifer Ledbury

Hypochondria Is a Real and Dangerous Illness, New Research Shows

Intense health anxiety is a true mental illness and threatens lives. The good news is that it’s treatable.

CLIENT: Scientific American

AD: Michael Mrak

From the middle out and bottom up

The president of the United States outlines his economic principles, and his record.

CLIENT: The American Prospect

AD: Jandos Rothstein

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it

CLIENT: WIRED

AD: Alyssa Walker

Inside the Collapse of Venture for America

The nonprofit promised 100,000 jobs by 2025. But it shut down with only a few thousand jobs created, and its final group of fellows are still owed money.

CLIENT: Inc.

AD: Erin Hollaway

Markets seem surprisingly unbothered by geopolitics

Tom Orlik on whether markets are correctly pricing in risks like hot and cold wars and the US election.

CLIENT: Bloomberg

AD: Madeline Montoya

Danger! Young Men At Play

On the problem of young men online, games, play, arousal, and transgression

CLIENT: Harmony Labs

AD: Paul Johnson

Last Out in Oakland

The beauty and agony of loving the A’s

CLIENT: The Atlantic

AD: Ben Kothe

Ukraine's coveted rare earths catch Trump's eye

From titanium and lithium to natural gas, Ukraine has an abundance of supplies needed by a range of industries, which Russia wants to control, while the US sees an opportunity

CLIENT: Al Majalla

AD: Sara Loane

Swimming with Sharks

What 15 years of Shark Tank taught us about U.S. economy.

CLIENT: NYT

AD: Minh Song

The Bureaucrat Who Could Make Trump’s Authoritarian Dreams Real

Russ Vought has a plan to take presidential power to new heights.

CLIENT: Mother Jones

AD: Michael Maximé Yves Foy

Society of Illustrators 67 Jury Selection

AI 44 Selected Winner

ADC 104th Bronze Cube Winner

The golden/nightmare AI future

Artificial Intelligence Debated

Blurb : “Deena So’Oteh’s clever flip cover for this week’s Guardian Weekly magazine neatly illustrates the dilemma. “I cannot help but think that we as a society are at a crossroads,” Deena says of her design, “and the way our future will unfold will greatly depend on what morals we anchor it to.”

CLIENT: The Guardian Weekly

AD: Andrew Stocks

3x3 Annual 21 Merit Winner

Neuralink’s Top Surgeon Is the Even-Handed Counterbalance to Musk

While the controversial CEO sees a future merging of human minds with machine, Matthew MacDougall may actually be the man you’d want putting a chip in your brain.

CLIENT: Bloomberg Newsroom

AD: Madeline Montoya

Organ Trafficking

Inside the global illegal organ trade.

CLIENT: The Guardian

AD: Bruno Haward, Andrew Stocks

Deep sea exploration: what’s it like to take a trip on a submersible?

Submersibles allow us to witness the wonders of the depths of our planet like nothing else. But after the OceanGate disaster, how safe are they?

CLIENT: The Observer

AD: Paul Tansley

The Magic and Mystery of Psychedelic Therapies

As new trials show that psilocybin and LSD may help treat depression and anxiety, mental-health providers get ready for a revolution.

CLIENT: Columbia Magazine

AD: Len Small

For Years I Denied My Mortality. Then I Had Chest Pains.

I tried to look casual about the pain and the subsequent surgery. But the truth was different.

CLIENT: Wall Street Journal

AD: Siung Tia

Invisible Rulers

Book review dedicated to PR firms that defend despicable corporate actions, and the other about the people who create and disseminate online disinformation.

CLIENT: The New Republic

AD: Andy Omel

When abortion wasn't a dirty word

The medical term once encompassed any pregnancy loss, including miscarriage.

CLIENT: NYT

AD: Rodrigo Honeywell

Running through Grief

In rapid succession, cancer took her mother and then struck her sister-in-law. Overcome with grief and anger and fear, a long-distance trail runner went in search of solace by tackling a seemingly impossible task: running the entirety of the Oregon section of the Pacific Crest Trail, all 460 miles of it.

CLIENT: Pentagram, Middlebury Magazine

AD: Stu Taylor

How 33-Year-Olds, the Peak Millennials, Are Shaping the U.S. Economy

Meet the 1990 and 1991 babies, a massive micro generation in lifelong competition for America’s economic resources, reshaping the world around them. NYT Sunday Business Cover

CLIENT: NYT

AD: Minh Song

A founding Father of Utah's VC industry is stepping back as accusations of sexual harassment surface

A Business Insider investigation has turned up accusations that Warnock has routinely made female employees feel uncomfortable. Half a dozen women told us they faced unwanted touching from the investor while working at Mercato Partners, and three of them said Warnock clasped their thighs and stroked their arms or backs.

CLIENT: Business Insider

AD: Rebecca Zisser

Even Cool Nightclubs Fail — Here’s How the Strongest Survive

“This is the worst market in nightlife history,” says certified club king Richie Romero.

CLIENT: VinePair

AD: Danielle Grinberg

Keep Old Traditions or Adapt? A 19th-Century Church Struggles to Survive

A congregation founded to separate itself from the modern world tried relaxing its rules to retain members but lost them instead

CLIENT: WSJ

AD: Caitlin Choi

How to break up with your carrer

The study of relationships can teach us a lot about the right way to fall out of love with your job—and find a new, more fulfilling one

CLIENT: WSJ

AD: Siung Tjia

Saying Goodbye to Magic Realism

Describing new Latin American literature as ‘magic realist’ prolongs a stereotype that overlooks the full depth and richness of each novel’s true genre.

CLIENT: NYT

AD: Veronica Rosalez

Inside the Efforts to Try Russians for Ukraine War Crimes—In Argentina

In a country long traumatized by torture, Putin’s victims hope to get their day in court.

CLIENT: Vanity Fair

AD: Pamela Wang, Emily Crawford

Is it time to ax the carbon tax?

The current ‘take no prisoners’ political battle over Canada’s carbon tax threatens what climate progress has been made. There is a compromise that could lower the temperature.

CLIENT: Corporate Knights

AD: Jack Dylan

Books for a better world:

Game-changing books that offer hope, as recommended by speakers at this year’s Hay festival, including Theresa May, Tom Holland, Helen Garner and Jon Ronson

CLIENT: The Guardian Saturday Magazine

AD: Sara Ramsbottom

Nature's Strongest force

New discoveries demystify the bizarre force that binds atomic nuclei together

CLIENT: Scientific American

AD: Michael Mrak

The Gift of Experiencing ‘Ego Death’

Close brushes with dying and psychedelic trips can change the way we see the world, while offering clues about how consciousness works

CLIENT: Wall Street journal

AD: Caitlin Choi

Claire Messud turns her family’s history into a masterpiece

“This Strange Eventful History” is a novel that’s quilted from scraps of memory treasured in the author’s attic for decades.

CLIENT: Washington Post

AD: Beth Broadwater

Violence in America

CLIENT: Al Majalla

AD: Sara Loane

One of the Most Infamous Trades on Wall Street Is Roaring Back

Forget the artificial-intelligence frenzy — the most-exciting trade on Wall Street right now might just be betting on boring.

CLIENT: Bloomberg Markets

AD: Josef Reyes

Why do we know so little about the womb?

Despite a glut of laws limiting reproductive rights, remarkably little is known about the uterus and its workings.

CLIENT: TNR

AD: Andy Omel

In the Post-Roe Era, Letting Pregnant Patients Get Sicker—by Design

Fearing legal repercussions, doctors in Texas say they are risking grave patient harm to comply with new abortion restrictions.

CLIENT: New Yorker

AD: Nicholas Konrad

GOLD MEDAL SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS 66 / COMARTS Shortlist 2024 / AI 43 Selected Winner / 3x3 Annual 21 Merit

‘The Terraformers’ is a dazzling look at the distant future

Book review of “Terraformers” by Annalee Newitz

CLIENT: Washington Post

AD: Beth Broadwater

Award of Excellence, “Best of Print Design” 2023

The Agony of Waiting for a Ceasefire That Never Comes

When the war in Gaza started, my family fled to the Jabalia refugee camp. Then Israel started bombing the camp.

CLIENT: The New Yorker

AD: Nichlas Konrad

'I feel conned into keeping this baby

An anti-abortion millennial couple promised women thousands of dollars to cancel their abortions. The women had their babies, but the couple didn't always hold up their end of the deal. BI investigated, and now they say they'll pay out $10,000 the women never got.

CLIENT: Insider

AD: Rebecca Zisser

Grief

Personal piece exploring infinite loop of grief with moments of self reflection.

The dangers of china’s decline

As China’s economic miracle fades, its leaders may become more inclined to take risks.

CLIENT: Foreign Policy

AD: Lori Kelley

How HYBE Used Voice Synthesis Tech to Translate This Artist Into Six Languages

A startup investment allowed the South Korean music giant to pull off one of the most innovative song rollouts in recent history.

CLIENT: Billboard Magazine

AD: Christopher Elsemore

Read It and Scream

CLIENT: NYT Book Review

AD: Matt Dorfman

Cover illustration is selected as NYT The Most Memorable Illustrations of 2021

Will robots gain the upper hand in an AI-dominated future?

Humans must maintain control or risk losing out to machines that have the ability to learn.

CLIENT: Al Majalla

AD: Sara Loane

AI can be a force for good or ill in society, so everyone must shape it, not just the ‘tech guys’

Although designers do have a lot of power, AI is just a tool conceived to benefit us. Communities must make sure that happens

CLIENT : The Guardian

AD : Chris Clarke

Society and AI

CLIENT: The Guardian

AD : Chris Clarke

Imagine your child calling for money. Except it’s not them – it’s an AI scam

Fraudsters are being given more sophisticated ways to trick us into believing they are someone they are not.

CLIENT: The Guardian.

AD: Chris Clarke

AI companies aren’t afraid of regulation

If our industry is to avoid superficial ethics-washing, historically excluded communities must be brought into the conversation

CLIENT : The Guardian

AD : Chris Clarke

Artificial intelligence is powering politics – but it could also reboot democracy

Generative AI can involve citizens directly in decision-making, but not while developers’ incentives are only financial.

CLIENT: The Guardian

AD: Chris Clarke

Yes, AI could profoundly disrupt education. But maybe that’s not a bad thing

Humans need to excel at things AI can’t do – and that means more creativity and critical thinking and less memorization.

CLIENT: The Guardian

AD: Chris Clarke

What plant behavior says about our own

CLIENT: Nautilus Magazine

AD : Liz Greene

What happens when AI falls into the wrong hands?

AI is already causing unintended harm. What happens when it falls into the wrong hands?

CLIENT: The Guardian

AD: Chris Clarke

When Dreams Foreshadow Brain Disease

Parkinsons’ and related disorders appear to result from a buildup of alpha-synuclein protein in the brain. The toxic protein appears to interfere with the usual mechanisms for immobilizing people during sleep. The outcome—dream enactment—predicts Parkinsons’ or other neurodegenerative disorders 10 to 15 years before more debilitating symptoms emerge, raising hope that early interventions can fend off the disease. The condition is also shedding light on the nature of dreams.

CLIENT: Scientific American

AD: Michael Mrak

A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder

Book Review of “The Wager by David Grann

CLIENT: New Yorker

AD: Aurora Colon

How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Psychiatrist Became a Key Player at Crypto Exchange FTX

CLIENT: Wall Street Journal

AD : Alexandra Citrin-Safadi

A Peter Thiel-Linked Startup Is Courting New York Scenesters and Plotting a Libertarian Paradise

The Praxis Society envisions a Mediterranean enclave—with just the Right kind of people.

CLIENT: Mother Jones

AD: Michael Johnson

The drone war race in the Middle East

Who will prevail in the battle for drone supremacy in the Middle East?

CLIENT : AL Majalla

AD: Sara Loan

The Secret Abortions of Texas

CLIENT: The New Yorker

AD: Aurora Colon

Shutting the door on the hard-knock life

The requirements of the theater, and the constant physical and emotional risks facing performers, have many demanding their basic needs as humans.

SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS 65 JURY SELECTION

AMERICAN ILLUSTRATION SELECTED WINNER

CLIENT: NYT

AD: Felicia Vasquez

Affirmative action

CLIENT: NPR

AD: LA Johnson

Wall Street: We Want Lower Rates. The Fed: Not So Fast

CLIENT: Bloomberg Businessweek

AD: Chandra Illick

Inside the Surveillance State’s Propaganda Machine

Book review of Kerry Howley ”Bottoms up and the devil laughs: a journey through the deep state”. Kerry Howley’s new book shows how the government distorts reality to turn whistleblowers into public enemies.

CLIENT : TNR

AD: Andy Omel

Birnam Woods

Cover illustration for NYT Book Review section dedicated to “Birnam Wood” by the Book Prize winner Eleanor Catton.

CLIENT: NYT Book Review

AD: Catherine Gilmore-Barnes

FCW February Cover : The new Trade craft

CLIENT : Federal Computer Weekly

AD : Victoria Lambino

Handle trolls

CLIENT: Insider

AD: Rebecca Zisser

Meeting of the Minds

Cover story about plants and their form of cognition.

CLINET: Nautilus

AD: Liz Greene

What Happened to the Woman in the Hotel Room Next Door?

With their closed doors and transient nature, hotels can provide an environment for crimes like sex trafficking. An incident in the middle of the night prompts a writer to ask what is being done to prevent them.

CLIENT : NYT

AD: Minh Uong