EditorialA message of encouragement from the innkeeper of the Sakura Ryokan, in the town of Kamojima, Japan, March 2023. (Marta Giaccone/The New York Times)
EditorialA Russian Olympic Committee team coach shouts encouragement during the men?s 500m speed-skating finals, at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Feb. 12, 2022. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialNotes of encouragement dangled from trees outside a library at the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, Calif. on Dec. 6, 2021. (Gabriella Angotti-Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialA supporter of President Donald Trump with a QAnon sign as his motorcade passes in Atlanta, Sept. 25, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)
EditorialNikki Hinske works on voter encouragement cards that will be mailed to both South and North Carolina and Georgia, in Charleston S.C. Sept. 24, 2020. (Gavin McIntyre/The New York Times)