The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics and in our lives more generally.

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that Failakawis dove for pearls 4000 years ago, but the elementary history books ...

In this rich, forest-savannah belt that we now call the Middle Belt, the laws of survival were simple and brutal: to endure, ...

New additions to Adriana Varejão’s acclaimed “Plate” series are showing at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, in her ...

The traditional Chinese version of the sacred Mayan text “Popol Vuh,” an endeavor undertaken as a partnership between Taiwan ...

History remembers the expression “better the turban than the tiara” by Gennadio Scolario, leader of the powerful Latinophobic ...

President Trump, history is calling again. And it is offering you the chance to do what only the greatest leaders have ever ...

Discovering Maya cities used to involve bushwhacking through the jungle, schlepping gear and sidestepping snakes. And over ...

It means preserving tradition while allowing Chinese civilization to flourish in the modern world ... Let rejuvenation be a renaissance of spirit — not a campaign of conquest. John Cheng is a retired ...

As a result, places like Greenland are strategic to the protection of every city in the Western Hemisphere, Grand Junction included. From the poles to the Panama Canal, there’s a mandate to defend and ...

The transformation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from a puritanical theocracy to an aspiring architect of global peace is ...

Imagine holding a fragment of a lost civilization in your hands—a mask carved by ancient hands, a tapestry woven long before ...