The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America ...

Democracy is under threat globally and the U.S. is accelerating the decline, according to an institute backed by the ...

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health, food safety and population. She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south, ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...

Postal services in more than 20 countries have announced the temporary suspension of most parcel shipments to the U.S., citing uncertainty over the effects of a Trump administration policy change. The ...

The U.S. ranks 18 on a map compiled by Newsweek with data showing the best and worst Organization for Economic cooperation and Development countries for taxes. Estonia was first, Latvia second and New ...

The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

In a world where almost every nation prides itself on having at least one university to drive education, research, and innovation, there are rare exceptions. Believe it or not, a handful of countries ...

Tariff-obsessed President Donald Trump is threatening to slap even more tariffs and restrictions on chip exports against countries that implement a digital services tax. In a post on Truth Social, ...

New analysis of street-level data across sub-Saharan Africa shows how access to infrastructure dramatically improves the ...