EditorialPamela Cerruti collects laundry baskets from outside the laundromat, Pajaro Coin Laundry, she owns with her family in Watsonville, Calif., March 14, 2023. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialFirefighters on July 18, 2022, walk through a grove of trees burned in the Washburn fire in Yosemite National Park in California. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialNicole Adams, who worked in human resources for the Las Vegas Raiders and who has filed a complaint with the Nevada Equal Rights Commission, in Seaside, Calif., May 10, 2022. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialVines are trained high so that grazing sheep cannot reach them at Paicines, a winery and ranch in San Benito County, California, May 3, 2022. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialDr. Kenneth Bernard, a top biodefense adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, at his home in Pebble Beach, Calif., Dec. 8, 2019. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialRegistered nurse Dalila Ceja adjusts her gown before entering a patient room in the coronavirus unit at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialCal Fire firefighter Chris Aragon stands for a portrait near Westwood, Calif., on July 30, 2021. Aragon has recently been assigned on the Dixie fire, one of about a dozen currently burning in California. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialScott Ludwig and Kristina Bowen with their three-year-old daughter Cheyenne outside the trailer they live in at the evacuation center at Springs of Hope Christian Church on Friday, July 30, 2021, in Quincy, Calif. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialElif-Konus, an teacher from Turkey who once binge-watched “Friends” to improve her own English and now incorporates the show into her own EFL lessons, at home in Pacific Grove, Calif., May 28, 2021. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)
EditorialTraveling registered nurse Marley McCabe adjusts her gown before entering a patient’s room in the coronavirus unit at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. (Nic Coury/The New York Times)