5 Ways the Map Moved This Week
The Strait of Gibraltar. Fourteen kilometres of water separate two continents here — and on its African shore sits Ceuta, a Spanish city and an EU external...
The Oil Shock That Turned France Nuclear
The cooling towers of Cattenom, one of 56 reactors built in France's crash nuclear program after the 1973 oil shock. Map the share of electricity each...
5 Ways the Map Moved This Week
The Strait of Hormuz — the two-mile-wide shipping lane at the mouth of the Persian Gulf that has dominated five months of war news, and whose closure has now...
Everyone Wants to Be Rome
Color in every country that has, at some point in its history, officially claimed to be the true heir of the Roman Empire, and the map stops looking like...
How Humanity Doubled Its Lifespan
Edward Jenner vaccinating a boy, painted by E.-E. Hillemacher. Vaccination was one of the first tools in the revolution that doubled human lifespans. Look at...
"Two Chokepoints, One Handover: 5 Ways the Map Moved This Week"
Four days of feeds, five moves on the map: two oil chokepoints under threat at once, occupied ground changing hands in south Lebanon, a new commander for...
The Empire That Spoke Eleven Languages
Emperor Franz Joseph I, who ruled the Habsburg lands for 68 years — long enough to be the only sovereign most of his eleven nations had ever known. Look at...
"5 Ways the Map Moved This Week"
Five days, five stories that moved a border, a coastline, or a front line — plus a map from our library that puts one of them in scale. 1. US and Iran trade...
"5 Ways the Map Moved This Week"
Five days, five stories that moved a border, a government, or a coastline — plus a map from our library that explains one of them. 1. US and Iran trade...
The Country Where a Third Spoke Another Language
Marshal Józef Piłsudski, the dominant figure of interwar Poland, which was reborn in 1918 after 123 years of partition. In 1931, the reborn Polish Republic...
The Week the Map Got a Price Tag
The flag of NATO. The alliance's 32 leaders met in Ankara this week with money — and the map — at the top of the agenda. Four days of headlines, five shifts...
"The Week the Lines Wouldn't Hold"
Kyiv counted its deadliest night in months, Iran staged a funeral across two countries, earthquakes redrew a stretch of Venezuela's coast, Sudan's war rolled...
"5 Ways the Map Moved This Week"
This week the world's borders, chokepoints and frontiers did a lot of moving. From a European capital under fire to a Gulf shipping lane and a Saharan city...
How Prussia Ate Germany in 64 Years
Anton von Werner's painting of the proclamation of the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, January 18, 1871. In 1807, Prussia nearly ceased...
The Family Business That Ran Europe
Nine reigning European kings, photographed together at Windsor in May 1910 for the funeral of Edward VII. In May 1910, nine kings put on their dress uniforms...
