I saved Latin. What did you ever do?

The Mongol conquests are difficult to fathom. Although their most important technology was the horse, they conquered much of the known world from China to Europe, a series of wars that killed tens of millions of people, then a substantial chunk of the world's population.

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.

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

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.

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