EditorialNorth Korean defector Yeonmi Park onstage at the Turning Point USA event in Long Island City, Queens, on June 17, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialAlexander Toradze, left, performs with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Vladimir Jurowski, at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, March 7, 2010. (Hiroyuki Ito/The New York Times)
Editorial Lee Min-bok a North Korean defector whose leaflet drops into North Korea emphasize providing outside news, stands for a portrait in Pocheon-si, South Korea, May 28, 2021. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialRoughly 250 people paid $15 or $20 apiece to attend a party in Brooklyn on Sept. 9, 2021, hosted by the staff of Defector, a subscription website started a year ago by journalists who had quit (or were fired from) the sports news site Deadspin after refusing to heed a request from their bosses that they “stick to sports.” (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA defector from the Taliban, bottom right, wears high-top Servis sneakers outside a guesthouse run by Afghani intelligence in Faizabad, Sept. 19, 2019. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialLee Min-bok, a North Korean defector, launches balloons carrying leaflets criticizing the North’s government from Pocheon, South Korea, not far from the North Korean border, on Oct. 7, 2016. (Jean Chung/The New York Times)
EditorialSen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who had been considered a potential defector, votes to block the admission of new witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, Jan. 31. 2020. (Art Lien/The New York Times)