Ardern Was the Face of a Different Kind of Leadership

For more than five years, she has been the global face of a different kind of leadership, combining decisiveness with compassion, with a healthy dose of humor and a refreshing human touch. But when she resigned as New Zealand’s prime minister Thursday, Jacinda Ardern’s face looked gaunter and more drawn than usual, perhaps revealing the strain of having governed the country through the Christchurch shooting in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic that came a year later.