Mid-Afternoon Map: Oppenheimer Map Scandal Exposed

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. Earlier this summer, a minor controversy erupted over a map in the Mattel Barbie movie. Despite being hand-drawn, wildly inaccurate, and in a Mattel Barbie movie, the map had a line on it, and that line had some dashes. To make a not terribly long story short, it definitely wasn’t the Chinese