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)
EditorialAn apartment building, heavily damaged by a Russian bombing the night before, in Bakhmut, Ukraine on Sept. 20, 2022. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
EditorialMonica Rodriguez in her hardware store, near where a man tried to kill Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 6, 2022. (Anne Pouchard Serra/The New York Times)
EditorialJoe Franquinha at the store he and his wife own, Crest Hardware & Urban Garden Center, with Franklin the pig, in Brooklyn, Aug. 2, 2022. (Alexandra Genova/The New York Times)