29 Strange But True Facts About Countries That Nobody Really Believes The First Time

In ancient times, when the vast majority of people never left their hometowns and villages and learned about the world around ...
The New Yorker

What We Learn About Our World by Imagining Its End

It’s a mite soon to start grieving, but scientists now project that life on Earth will probably end in about a billion years. A Monday in February, 1,000,002,025, would be my guess. On that ...
Pew Research Center

5 facts about how the world’s population is expected to change by 2100

On July 11, the United Nations will mark its annual World Population Day, which aims to raise awareness of global population trends and related issues. Here are five facts about how the world’s ...
The New York Times

The World Cup is one month away. This is how our writers are feeling about it

The World Cup begins in Mexico on June 11 Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty Images The Athletic has live coverage of the latest 2026 World Cup news. Eight years after it was awarded to the United States, ...
CNN

More and more travelers are visiting every country in the world. Some are having second thoughts about it

Most travelers hold their own unique bucket list of destinations, but how many have every single country in the world listed? While the number of people who’ve been able to achieve this is still ...