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Thank you for your time and engagement, and for the opportunity you’ve given us to illuminate life in 2022. Please enjoy this collection of our best visual work of the year.
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Vanessa Saba for "The Invisible Hand of Steve Twist"
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Joseph Ross for "The Polluter Just Got a Million-Dollar Fine. That Won’t Cure This Woman’s Rare Cancer."
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Hokyoung Kim for "Kidney Failure, Emergency Rooms and Medical Debt. The Unseen Costs of Food Poisoning."
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Lisa Larson-Walker for "How a Billionaire’s 'Attack Philanthropy' Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes"
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Emiliano Ponzi for "St. Louis’ Murder Total Has Fallen, but Some Killings Went Uncounted"
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Michael Mapes for "Inside Google’s Quest to Digitize Troops’ Tissue Samples"
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Nash Weerasekera for "St. Louis Can Banish People From Entire Neighborhoods. Police Can Arrest Them if They Come Back."
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