Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba ...

President Trump’s territorial assertions sparked a round of rethinking by mapmakers and teachers, snark on social media and sarcasm by at least one other world leader.

Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" highlights the politics of map naming, sparking debates, social media snark, and mixed reactions globally and domestically.

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On the campaign trail, Donald Trump, now U.S. president-elect, promised that “the Middle East is going to get solved” but offered few details on how he might achieve such an outcome. When he returns ...

You may not be interested in Jewish or Arab history, but they are both very interested in you today. This is one of those rare moments — like after World War I, World War II and the Cold War ...