EditorialPresident Xi Jinping of China and his wife, Peng Liyuan, accompany President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump on a tour of the Forbidden City in Beijing on Nov. 8, 2017. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialA stone panel, dating to the eighth century, of K’ab Kante’, a ruler of the ancient Maya kingdom of Sak Tz’i’, in Chiapas, Mexico, June 14, 2022. (Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times)
EditorialAT THE ANCIENT THEATER OF SEGESTA UMBERTO GALIMBERTI IN THE LECTIO THE GREEK WISDOM ANALYZES THE SPIRIT OF THE HELLENIC CIVILIZATION BETWEEN BEING AND LOGOS
EditorialFrom left, “The King’s Acquaintances Memi and Sabu” from Egypt, ca. 2575–2465 B.C., and “Seated Couple” from Mali, 18th or early 19th century, on display in “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Dec. 28, 2021. (Seth Caplan/The New York Times)
EditorialDeaf Palestinians take part in a cultural festival entitled "Our Heritage is the Title of Our Civilization", Gaza city, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - 04 Nov 2021
EditorialThe Rev. Richard Gibson, who has served as the pastor of Elizabeth Baptist Church in the Slavic Village neighborhood of Cleveland for 18 years, near the church on Dec. 21, 2020. (Da'Shaunae Marisa/The New York Times)
EditorialIn an undated photo from Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center, an artist's rendering of a space colony concept. (Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center via The New York Times)
EditorialSusan Sontag, who argued in her 1978 book “Illness and Metaphor” against spinning literary or abstract intellectual interpretations of physical sickness, sits for a portrait in 1989. (Eddie Hausner/The New York Times)
EditorialA detail of “Kneeling Dignitary,” Middle Niger civilization, Mali, 12th-14th century, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Jan. 25, 2020. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)