Since all three Americas touch the body of water in question, the Gulf of America should have a different name, Richard ...

It’s basic U.S. Geography. There are 50 states — 48 of which are contiguous, plus Alaska and Hawaii — and the District of Columbia. Most Americans know that much. But did you know that the United ...

Donald Trump is already failing the implicit geography test that is taking office as the president of the United States.

As of Wednesday night, map applications for Google and Apple still called the mountain and the gulf by their old names.

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

After a year of driving through 49 states, here is the best spot in each region of the US from the South's Everglades to the ...

We study the causes of “nutritional inequality”: why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the United States. Exploiting supermarket entry, household moves to healthier neighborhoods, and ...

The United States is a collection of oddly shaped territories whose silhouettes have become instantly recognizable. How did Michigan lay claim to the Upper Peninsula and not Wisconsin? Here are ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America and Denali, the tallest peak in the United ...