Tagged “geography”

A history of invasions of Afghanistan. Curious how many aspects we similar over time, the persistent impact of geography as that hasn't changed much over the last 2000years. We describe hundreds of years as some era under the rule of X, but consider that's more than your entire life! And for mountains no significant amount of time has passed

Interesting analysis on immigration, unemployment, language, housing, and economy of Spain. Who writes like this after a vacation?!

Overall, my visit has made me more optimistic about Spain. Much of the measured unemployment is illusory, and immigrants are pouring in to profit from Spain’s combination of high productivity and linguistic accessibility. Housing policy remains bad. Since housing regulation is decentralized, however, some regions of Spain will be atypically tolerant of new construction. Where is the Texas of Spain? I don’t know, but that’s where the future is.