EditorialA home furnishing store is nearly empty at the Mingfa Commercial Plaza in Nanjing, China on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (Qilai Shen/The New York Times)
EditorialUliana Kychenko, a freelance marketing manager, works from a table in a co-working space set up in Epicentr, a department store in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Jan. 10, 2023. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialDomarc Dayondon, 34, has been furnishing his apartment in Astoria, Queens, with items he has found on the street, including the lamp he is holding. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
EditorialRomi Cohn, born Avraham Hakohen Cohn, performs a circumcision at Congregation Ahaba Ve Ahva in Brooklyn in 2014. (Michael Nagle/The New York Times)