EditorialA poll worker breaks down voting booths after the polls closed in the recall vote for California Gov. Gavin Newsom, at the Gateway Church voting site in Brawley, Calif, on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
EditorialA prescribed burn, a practice common in the Southeast but not widely used in Western states, on Brawley Mountain near Blue Ridge, Ga., April 22, 2019. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times)
EditorialA prescribed burn, a practice common in the Southeast but not widely used in Western states, on Brawley Mountain near Blue Ridge, Ga., April 22, 2019. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times)