Mid-Afternoon Map: The Maps Diverge

Welcome to Mid-Afternoon Map, our exclusive members-only newsletter that provides a cartographic perspective on current events, geopolitics, and history from the Caucasus to the Carolinas. Subscribers can look forward to interesting takes on good maps and bad maps, beautiful maps and ugly ones — and bizarre maps whenever possible. *** The archives are littered with far too many maps showing just how wrong sweeping predictions about the future can be. But then, read differently, they also show that the impulse is irresistible. So why fight it? After Tuesday’s election, speculation has intensified over what Donald Trump’s victory will mean for