EditorialLight shines on General Horatio Gates in the painting "Surrender of General Burgoyne" (1826) by John Trumbull as visitors tour the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, May 25, 2023. (Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times)
EditorialGabriel Gordon, owner of a popular barbecue restaurant in Seal Beach, Calif., sits inside his closed restaurant on July 7, 2020. (Horatio Baltz/The New York Times)