Australia’s history did not begin with colonization. Tens of thousands of years before empires rose elsewhere, Aboriginal Australians were living, adapting, and building culture across the continent.

In the last quarter of 2023, Israel was simultaneously reeling from the shock and trauma of the October 7 Hamas attack on the ...

By the time this article hits the mailboxes it will be February 20th. It already feels like spring is here, although I’ve been fooled before. I’ve been looking at that 10-day forecast, and I just ...

With an eye on the October elections, Netanyahu’s government is approving measures that deepen Israel’s de facto annexation ...

Last year, The Cut announced in an article written by journalist Cat Zhang that being bald was — finally — cool. “Just when it became normal to drop five figures on a thicker hairline, a new cultural ...

In the Kharga Oasis, a crescent of green carved into Egypt's western desert, the afternoon heat settles over rows of date palms like a blanket. Fifteen farmers gather in the shade, but there are no ...

After 647 days in limbo, a Palestinian woman and her family endure a grueling, humiliating journey and confiscations at checkpoints to return from Egypt to Gaza.

This ancient queen of Palmyra conquered Egypt, captured Roman provinces, and nearly transformed her realm into an empire ...

President Isaac Herzog’s visit to Australia was always going to reopen old fault lines, and it did—quickly—pulling protesters back into the streets to heckle a trip meant, at least in part, to ...

Israeli strikes on Gaza have killed about 600 people since a cease-fire began, according to health officials in the territory ...

How many of us knew that the city of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has a Greek past that defined the history of the ...