EditorialJohn Ruff, left, a museum gallery attendant and former English professor, and Richard Brauer, a retired art professor for whom the school’s art museum is named after, sit in front of Frederic Church's “Mountain Landscape”, at the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus in Valparaiso, Ind. on March 1, 2023. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)
EditorialJohn Ruff, left, a museum gallery attendant and former English professor, and Richard Brauer, a retired art professor for whom the school’s art museum is named after, sit in front of Frederic Church's “Mountain Landscape”, at the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus in Valparaiso, Ind. on March 1, 2023. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)
EditorialA Secure Electronic Enrollment Kit, or SEEK II, purchased by German researchers on eBay, in Hamburg, Germany, on Dec. 21, 2022. (Andreas Meichsner /The New York Times)
EditorialHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi and lawmakers hold a bill enrollment ceremony for the Respect for Marriage Act, at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialHannah Bernard hands out worksheets during class at PS 446, Riverdale Avenue Community School, in Brooklyn on Oct. 12, 2018. (Stephen Speranza/The New York Times)
EditorialOutside the student center at Adrian College, a liberal arts school with just over 1,600 undergraduates, in Adrian, Mich., Sept. 22, 2022. (Erin Kirkland/The New York Times)
EditorialMelissa Ruiz with her children Gabriel, 3, left, and Milani, 4, at a Head Start center in Perth Amboy, N.J., where there are mandatory masking rules for teachers and children as young as 2, on Sept. 1, 2022. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
EditorialSpeaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and members of the U.S. House of Representatives celebrate during an enrollment ceremony for the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, in Washington on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times)
EditorialSpeaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and members of the U.S. House of Representatives celebrate during an enrollment ceremony for the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, in Washington on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times)