EditorialA vault door in the continuity-of-government bunker built in the 1960s by the Canadian government outside Ottawa, on Jan. 18, 2023. (Ian Austen/The New York Times)
EditorialQueen ELizabeth II’s coffin is carried along the Long Walk at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, about 25 miles west of London, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople gather archival material from the flood-damaged vault at Appalshop, an arts and cultural organization, in Whitesburg, Ky., July 31, 2022. (Jon Cherry/The New York Times)
EditorialPeople gather archival material from the flood-damaged vault at Appalshop, an arts and cultural organization, in Whitesburg, Ky., July 31, 2022. (Jon Cherry/The New York Times)
EditorialA funeral home employee unloads a burial vault at Hillcrest Memorial Cemetery on the day of the funeral for Irma Garcia, who was killed during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, and her husband, Joe Garcia, who died of a heart attack two days later, in Uvalde, Texas on June 1, 2022. (Callaghan O’Hare/The New York Times)
EditorialA warning about the brittle nature of tapes, made in 1966 by the country music star George Jones and his band, on an envelope used to wrap them for a judge, in Huntingdon, Tenn., April 8, 2022. (Aaron Hardin/The New York Times)
EditorialDaniel Valentine of Baltimore in a Vault Boy costume from the online video game Fallout 76 during the Fasnacht celebration, which returned one year after COVID canceled the event, in Helvetia, W.Va., Feb. 26, 2022. (Luke Sharrett/The New York Times)
EditorialDaniel Valentine of Baltimore in a Vault Boy costume from the online video game Fallout 76 during the Fasnacht celebration, which returned one year after COVID canceled the event, in Helvetia, W.Va., Feb. 26, 2022. (Luke Sharrett/The New York Times)