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. *** Over the past year, publications like the New York Times have faced an unrelenting stream of criticism for their Middle East coverage. Readers from rival political perspectives have all taken part, attacking newspapers for everything from misleading headlines to mistaken facts. I, for one, was hoping to pile on. But before I had
