EditorialKim Barauskas examines necrotic tissue on her fingertips in the offices of Prevention Point, a 30-year-old health services center in Kensington, the Philadelphia, Pa. neighborhood at the epicenter of the city’s drug trade, on Dec. 6, 2022. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialSolar panels at the site of a well-drilling rig in Kandahar province along Highway 1, the main artery of trade and transport in southern Afghanistan, April 3, 2022. (Bryan Denton/The New York Times)
EditorialJean Louis Petit's machine to compress the femoral artery during amputation of the thigh 1, and bandages 2, aneurysm needle 3 and scissors 4. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779.
EditorialThe most traffic-clogged artery in New York has become the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, where the average speed during the morning rush has dropped by 19 percent during the pandemic. (Yuvraj Khanna/The New York Times)
EditorialJavid Sharifi, right, and Mohammad Akram Sharifi, left, at their collapsed family home in Arzo, Afghanistan, on Sept. 22, 2021. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
EditorialClay Coleman Jr. saw a clinical trial as a way to treat his peripheral artery disease, which caused intense pain whenever he tried to walk. (Sebastian Hidalgo/The New York Times)
EditorialAn image provided by the Beverly Hills Police Department of evidence against what they say are thieves who used debit cards issued for unemployment benefits to go on shopping sprees. (Beverly Hills Police Department via The New York Times)
EditorialKayakers paddle along the Thames River past London Bridge, a traffic artery for the financial district that is also partly closed for repairs, in London on Sept. 4, 2020. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialJean Louis Petit's machine to compress the femoral artery during amputation of the thigh 1, and bandages 2, aneurysm needle 3 and scissors 4. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderot's Encyclopedia, Pellet, Geneva, 1779.