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

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

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.

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

I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

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.

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