EditorialRussian fencing champion Konstantin Lokhanov in a training room during the 2023 USA Fencing Summer Nationals in Phoenix, on July 7, 2023. (Caitlin O'Hara/The New York Times)
EditorialMawlawi Mahdi Mujahid, a former Shiite commander within the mostly Sunni Taliban who renounced the new Taliban government and seized control of a district in northern Afghanistan, in Balkhab, Afghanistan, June 21, 2022. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
EditorialSecretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Jan. 7, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialFormer Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York on Nov. 17, 2019, at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, where he renounced the police practice of stop-and-frisk for the first time. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)