The Moral Hemisphere

A strange fact about the United States of America is that its name is not very specific. When I was an editor at a magazine on Latin American politics, I was under strict instructions to use “U.S.” instead of “America” to refer to the republic whose capital is in Washington, D.C. This is because many Latin Americans object to the use of the name of two continents, North and South America, to refer to a single country.