EditorialEric Adams, the Brooklyn Borough President and heavy favorite to succeed Mayor Bill de Blasio, addresses a news conference in Brooklyn on Aug. 13, 2021, about the long-delayed development project that would transform the banks of Brooklyn’s notoriously filthy Gowanus Canal. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
EditorialDebra Emiko, right, and her 18-year-old daughter, Mala Elizabeth, check their nets for fish near Warri, Nigeria on April 24, 2021. (Yagazie Emezi/The New York Times)
EditorialChildren run through a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, across the border from Brownsville, Texas, as it is being fumigated, Aug. 5, 2020. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)