EditorialThe novelist Barbara Kingsolver with Hugo at her home in Meadowview, Va., on Sep. 13, 2022. She was born and continues to live in Appalachia, a region she is devoted to and knows deeply. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
EditorialMichael French of Green Forests Work checks the progress of chestnut trees at a former coal mine in Coshocton County, Ohio, Aug. 16, 2022. (Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times)
EditorialJ.D. Vance is cheeered by supporters in Cincinnati after winning the Republican Ohio Senate primary on Tuesday night, May 3, 2021. (Maddie McGarvey/The New York Times)
EditorialA copy of “Dopesick - Dealers, Doctors, and The Drug Company That Addicted America,” by Beth Macy, in New York. (Patricia Wall/The New York Times)
EditorialA tunnel in Portal 31, a former coal mine now preserved as an educational exhibit in Lynch, Ky., Feb. 23, 2021. (Jon Cherry/The New York Times)
EditorialDakota Scott, who is trying to overcome her methamphetamine addiction, with her 2-week-old daughter, Cameron, at Karen’s Place Maternity Center, a Kentucky facility for women in addiction recovery in Louisa, Ky. Dec. 10, 2019. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)