EditorialSingapore: Mural of a Chinese shopkeeper sitting in her crockery and hardware store in mid-20th century Chinatown, Temple Street. Mural by Singaporean artist Yip Yew Chong
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers clean a hardware store, hoping to reopen as soon as possible after severe flooding in Barre, Vt., on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialEmergency workers work through the rubble of the administrative offices and warehouses for hardware supply and agricultural companies hit by shilling in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Friday, April 28, 2023. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialEmergency workers work through the rubble of the administrative offices and warehouses for hardware supply and agricultural companies hit by shilling in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Friday, April 28, 2023. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)
EditorialEmergency workers work through the rubble of the administrative offices and warehouses for hardware supply and agricultural companies hit by shilling in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Friday, April 28, 2023. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)
EditorialProspecting equipment like sluice boxes and plastic pans, for sale at Placerville Hardware, in Placerville, Calif., on April 11, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialProspecting equipment like sluice boxes and plastic pans, for sale at Placerville Hardware, in Placerville, Calif., on April 11, 2023. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)