That should be part of the United States.’” And so an obsession began ... that was and is especially popular in classrooms: the Mercator Projection. Named after Gerardus Mercator, the Flemish ...

Tariffs are not going to make other countries respect the United States. But they can make them move on without it.

For centuries, the world has been misled about Africa’s true size. The Mercator map—one of the most widely used world ...