Syd Kuntz is a deputy copy editor at Foreign Policy. Prior to joining FP, she worked at the Hill and Vox Media’s sports news website, SB Nation. She is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., where she studied journalism and international relations. She was born and raised in Farmington, New York.
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Two men wearing gloves sit side by side on the ground, bent over pieces of pottery in their hands. One man in a baseball cap uses a paintbrush to dust a shard, and the other wears a vest over a striped sweater and squirts something from a bottle onto another shard. Tools and intact clay vessels are scattered around the men, and a low stone wall is visible behind them.
A man and a woman stand on either side of a snowman about the same height as they are, both packing more snow into its base. The dome of the U.S. Capitol Building looms in the background beyond a snow-covered lawn. The sky above is pale gray, and the trees that surround the lawn are bare.
A bearded man in a black coat and old-fashioned top hat holds up a groundhog with one hand up above his head, smiling as he does. Other people in top hats and formal attire stand on a stage behind him, and bare tree branches loom overhead under a lightening dawn sky.
Dancers carry massive puppets portraying dragons and lions as they dance through a street in Manila. Smoke from displays of fire drifts around them as they move the colorful puppets above their heads.
A wide aerial shot shows a river snaking through the valley between two tall green hills. The sky above is blue, with fluffy white clouds, and the colorful roofs of low buildings can be seen at the edge of a settlement on one bank of the river.
Pete Hegseth, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, drinks water during his Senate confirmation hearing in Washington on Jan. 14.
Two small figures are seen from behind as they stand rocky outcrop and look out at a vast expanse of snow-covered icebergs scattered across the landscape beneath a cloudy sky in Greenland.
A person on horseback wearing a full suit of armor leads a procession of French military officers carrying the flags of dozens of countries during the Olympics opening ceremony.
Justin Trudeau stands in front of a row of Canadian flags, wearing a serious expression and holding his hands clasped in front of himself. Trudeau has thick dark hair and wears a navy blue suit and tie.
A woman with lilac-colored hair waves a Georgian flag, white with a red cross, while also clutching a teddy bear the size of her torso. She stands in front a gray wall covered with indistinguishable layered graffiti.
A woman with braided gray hair is seen from behind as she prepares her phone to take a photo of a banana affixed to a plain white wall with a strip of duct tape.
About two dozen mariachi performers, including both men and women, pose for a photo in a crowded square with their instruments, including violins, trumpets, and guitars that the performers lift to wave in the air
Moldovan President Maia Sandu claps her hands and smiles, surrounded by a small crowd of people who are also clapping. Sandu also has a bouquet of flowers tucked under her arm.
A woman stands among a group of about two dozen dogs and sprinkles orange marigold petals on the head of the yellow dog standing closest to her. Most of the dogs also wear marigold garlands around their necks.
Antony Blinken is seen from below as he stands in the middle of a circle of reporters holding phones and microphones out toward him as he speaks. Blinken wears a navy blue suit, and his hands are clapped in front of him while he talks.
