"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...
