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Benedetta Ristori for The Atlantic

How the Elite See Rome

Need the Colosseum to yourself? Want to see a privately owned masterpiece by Caravaggio? For the tourism fixer Fulvio De Bonis, there’s no such thing as a closed door.

Cullen Murphy
Tamir Kalifa for The Atlantic

The 10,000-Year Flood

The banks of the Guadalupe River were an idyllic spot to park an RV. Then, last summer, it started to rain harder and faster than anyone could imagine.

Sean Flynn
Paola Chapdelaine for The Atlantic

Adam Silver Goes to War

The mild-mannered NBA commissioner has overseen a time of peace and prosperity for his league. Until now.

Tim Alberta

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Lee Friedlander’s America

The photographer spent decades meandering across the country with his camera. What was he looking for?

Hua Hsu
Owen Harvey

By the Horns

Miriam Cabas is one of Spain’s few female bullfighters. What does her success mean for bullfighting, and for Spain?

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz
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ESA / Hubble & NASA, M. Postman, P. Kelly

Warped Space

Day 21 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

Alan Taylor
Elisabeth Mandl / Reuters

Saint Nick’s Dark Companion

Yuletide parades across Europe for Krampus, the demonlike creature who playfully frightens onlookers, looking for naughty children to punish—or to drag back to his lair in a sack

Alan Taylor
ESA / Webb, NASA, CSA, A. Hirschauer, M. Meixner et al.

Distant Starbursts

Day 17 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

Alan Taylor
NASA, ESA, I. Pasha, P. van Dokkum

The Bullseye

Day 16 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar

Alan Taylor
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