Photo Essays

Springtime in the Midwest Means a Foot of Snow
Though the calendar has ticked over into May, more than six weeks removed from the end of winter, in some parts of the Midwest and Rockies the shovels haven’t...

LIFE With Guns: ‘Drawing a Bead on Safety,’ 1956
[NOTE: LIFE.com is aware that encountering images of guns and children in a classroom might be distressing to some readers — even if those images were made...

Georgia O’Keeffe: Invincible
Very few major American artists have ever been as productive, for so long, in so many mediums, as Georgia O’Keeffe was during her extraordinary career. From her...

Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin
The life and career of chairman of the House Budget Committee

Photos: Showdown in Wisconsin
Union supporters protest a bill that would almost eliminate collective bargaining rights — a measure that governor Scott Walker says is necessary to trim the...

Top 10 Union Movies
In Wisconsin and elsewhere, American unions have roused themselves after decades of lethargy. Scanning film history, TIME picks 10 movies that dramatized the...

Jackie and JFK: When They Were Dummies
The notion that Jackie Kennedy was (and remains) a fashion icon is today such a commonplace that it’s difficult to fathom, five decades later, just how enormous...


