EditorialGov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders waves after taking the oath of office at her inauguratation in Little Rock, Ark., on Jan. 10, 2022. (Al Drago/The New York Times)
EditorialPennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, at his swearing-in ceremony at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Jan. 17, 2023. (Hannah Beier/The New York Times)
EditorialThis right-side-of-history argument is rarely about history at all. It is a pre-emptive assertion of one side’s virtue and another’s wickedness, Carlos Lozada writes. (Mike Haddad/The New York Times)
EditorialPhotos of poets, politicians, artists and musicians at a cafe in Kabul, Afghanistan, where the vice and virtue police demanded the removal of photos of women, although the owner sneaked one in, Aug. 9, 2022. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
EditorialArturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea, chief justice of the Mexican Supreme Court, center, with his two top advisers: Alejandra Spitalier, Secretary-General of the Supreme Court Presidency, right, and Fabiana Estrada, General Coordinator to Advisors to the Presidency, in Mexico City, on May 25, 2022. (Lisette Poole/The New York Times)
EditorialPam Steptoe, one of the few Black students in Stonewall Jackson?s High School?s class of 1981, at the Shenandoah County School Board meeting where members voted, by virtue of a 3-3 tie, to not restore a high school?s and an elementary?s former Confederate names, in Quicksburg, Va., June 9, 2022. (Eze Amos/The New York Times)
EditorialMuhammad Sadiq Akif, spokesman for the Taliban government?s Virtue and Vice Ministry, at his office in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 16, 2022. (Kiana Hayeri/The New York Times)
EditorialThe new Ministry of Invitation, Guidance and Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a home for the Taliban?s religious morality police, now occupies this building that formerly housed the Ministry of Women?s Affairs, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialSupporters wait to hear President Donald Trump speak at a campaign rally in Fayetteville, N.C., Nov. 2, 2020. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
EditorialVoters line up outside a polling place to cast their ballots in Las Vegas early Tuesday morning, Nov. 3, 2020. (Bridget Bennett/The New York Times)