EditorialHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after the House passed the debt limit bill at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (Kenny Holston g/The New York Times)
EditorialHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after the House passed the debt limit bill at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (Kenny Holston g/The New York Times)
EditorialHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after the House passed the debt limit bill at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. (Kenny Holston g/The New York Times)
EditorialMartin Bate, a 31-year-old transportation planner who says that he felt financially squeezed last year, in Arlington, Texas, Jan. 17, 2023. (Nitashia Johnson/The New York Times)
EditorialA shopper outside Macy’s in Herald Square in Manhattan on Black Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. High inflation, rising interest rates and a slowing economy have squeezed consumer’s wallets. (Mathias Wasik/The New York Times)
EditorialBritish households are being squeezed by high energy bills, food costs and mortgage rates, while wage growth is failing to keep up with inflation. (Sam Bush/The New York Times)
EditorialTigun Wibisana and his wife, Sandra Kok, the owners of the SiTigun cafe, one of the many businesses in Asia being squeezed by the strength of the U.S. dollar, on Penang Island in Malaysia, Oct. 2, 2022. (Suzanne Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialIn a series of photos provided by the Library of Congress shows, the American starter home which has been a bungalow, a shotgun house, a rowhome. (Library of Congress via The New York Times)
EditorialLimousines and SUVs navigate south on 2nd Avenue in the Midtown neighborhood, near the United Nations headquarters, in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (Jose A. Alvarado Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialIhor Korpii, a school teacher who sells produce in the summer to supplement his family’s income, at the main outdoor food market in Lviv, Ukraine, July 21, 2022. (Diego Ibarra Sanchez/The New York Times)
EditorialSebastiano De Luca, 58, who lives in a block of shacks squeezed between an obstructed canal and the morgue of Messina’s biggest hospital, in Messina, Italy, on Sept. 8, 2021. (Gianni Cipriano/The New York Times)
EditorialJackie Mason in "Jackie Mason Freshly Squeezed Just One Jew Talking,” at the Belasco Theater in Manhattan, March 8, 2005. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialA French Foreign Legion soldier catches up on sleep inside an armored personnel carrier during a mission to hunt down Islamic militants in northeastern Mali, February 2020. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)