Many of us are idealists at heart. We have our core sets of beliefs and we will unapologetically defend them in arguments with others. Like us, politicians have ideals that they hold dear to their hearts. Unlike us however, a politician occasionally needs to act in ways different from his or her beliefs. This is Read More

- via NPR High in the Andes Mountains, Peruvians have been lining up to see a collection of antiquities that have finally returned home. The objects from the Inca site of Machu Picchu spent the past 100 years at Yale University in Connecticut, where they were at the center of a long-running international custody battle. Read More

- via NY Daily News Argentina’s last dictator was convicted Thursday of more crimes against humanity, this time getting 15 years in prison for setting up a secret torture center inside a hospital during the 1976 military coup.

As long as you are in Samoa this Thursday. In the latest realm of time travel, Samoa has decided to eliminate Friday, December 30 in order to sync up the working week with the two countries it works with the most, New Zealand and Australia. It is a move that reverses the king’s decision in Read More

Caution! Exploding churros. This might have been the caption that could have helped the Chilean daily newspaper La Tercera avoid paying $163,000 to 13 people who sustained injuries recreating a churros recipe published seven years ago.