EditorialWill Liverman, left, in “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” the first performance of an opera by a Black composer at the Metropolitan Opera, on Sept. 20, 2021. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialMax McCarthy, an ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, walks around wetlands in northern New Jersey on Sept. 12, 2021. (Jonno Rattman/The New York Times)
EditorialMax McCarthy, an ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, walks around wetlands in northern New Jersey on Sept. 12, 2021. (Jonno Rattman/The New York Times)
EditorialOlivo, in the Belgravia neighborhood of London, is one of many restaurants across Britain trying to cope with a dearth of workers. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)