EditorialA six-story building on East Broadway in New York?s Chinatown, where a Chinese outpost is suspected of conducting police operations without jurisdiction or diplomatic approval, on Jan. 11, 2023. (Hilary Swift/The New York Times)
EditorialLex Coloniae Genitiuae Iuliae. Municipal Law of the ancient Urso (Osuna, Seville province, Andalusia, Spain) promulgated in 44 BC. Published in bronze tablets between 20 and 24 AD. Second tablet. Chapters 70 to 82. It explains the obligation of augurs ...
EditorialTwo figures of jurisdiction, man and woman, with spikes to be stuck into the ground to the right and left of the " Oba" or king of Beninwhen sitting in judgement. From Benin H: 28, 25 cm.
EditorialUkrainian Orthodox Christian faithful at a blessing ceremony on the day before Orthodox Easter, outside St.George?s Cathedral in Lviv, Ukraine, April 23, 2022. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)