Opinion

The Great Lie of War

Ben Rhodes, a contributing Times Opinion writer, discusses why Trump waged war on Iran — and why his predecessors didn’t dare to.
Ancient cave records reveal that repeated heavy rainfall and flooding, not drought, caused the decline of the Shijiahe culture in China.
In a remote valley in southern China’s Guizhou province lies Huanggang, an 800-year-old village known for its wooden ...