People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

India, a land of incredible diversity and culture, is home to some of the most populous cities in the world. Each of the ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100, a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an African ...

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The admonition that we must remember the past to avoid repeating it has always struck me as strange. If human history teaches ...

Hundreds of U.S. military personnel are being sent to Guantánamo Bay to provide support for what could be up to 30,000 ...

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For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

There was a time in Israeli politics when the idea of population transfer—the mass displacement of Palestinians—was so toxic ...

President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to relocate Gaza’s population and rebuild it as the "Riviera of the Middle East" ...

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