We often forget that Spain controlled big parts of Europe, in Italy and the Netherlands. In the Middle Ages, Spain and Portugal were so powerful that they signed a set of treaties literally dividing up the globe between them.

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

Find something you love to do and then do it for the rest of your life

Latin America and the Caribbean are the happiest on average in the world.

Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

Here is what Muslims and Muslim organizations are expected to say: "As a Muslim, I condemn this attack and terrorism in any form." This expectation we place on Muslims, to be absolutely clear, is Islamophobic and bigoted.

I saved Latin. What did you ever do?