EditorialMigrants desperate to reach the European Union camp in squalor in Bruzgi, Belarus, near the border with Poland, on Nov. 16, 2021. They were caught in a standoff between Belarus, which encouraged migrants to come, and Poland, which fought to keep them out. (James Hill/The New York Times)
EditorialMigrants desperate to reach the European Union camp in squalor in Bruzgi, Belarus, near the border with Poland, on Nov. 16, 2021. They were caught in a standoff between Belarus, which encouraged migrants to come, and Poland, which fought to keep them out. (James Hill/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Giostra neighborhood in Messina, Italy, on Sept. 8, 2021, which was ravaged by a coronavirus outbreak in December that spread from shack to shack. (Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times)