How Venezuela fell from the travel map – and when it might return

When you read reports of armed militias patrolling the streets of Caracas, food and medicine shortages, and rumoured Hezbollah training camps, it’s hard to believe that a decade ago Venezuela was a ...

Why Does Greenland Look So Big on the Map?

This is the context for the Mercator map, the one that shows Greenland looking like a hulking prize to Donald Trump. The ...

Trump shared edited photo featuring map with Venezuela, Canada and Greenland covered by US flag

Trump posted a digitally altered photograph amid tension with NATO members over his plan to acquire Greenland.

Lederer on Language: How in the world did our great country get its name?

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) generally gets credit for finding America. In grade school, many of us learned this ditty: ...

Icy Greenland is anything but green. How did it get that name?

The story of Greenland's name weaves together sly marketing, climate change and the Vikings. While Erik the Red selected the ...

Venezuela Diaspora in Miami Names Road for Opposition’s Machado

Doral, a city west of downtown Miami that is home to one of the biggest Venezuelan communities in the US, will rename a ...