In 1921, Canada developed a secret plan to invade the U.S.

Frank Jacobs

Most international borders are surprisingly young

Frank Jacobs

Map identifies 1,700 public memorials to the Confederacy

Frank Jacobs

The Subway Map That Rattled New Yorkers

Alice Rawsthorn

The D.C. Metro Almost Had a Very Cool Abstract Map

A series of modernist transit design gems were discovered last week inside Massimo and Lella Vignelli’s archives.

Mark Byrnes

Chilling maps of lynchings in 1930s America

Frank Jacobs

It’s harder for Democrats to gerrymander effectively

Matthew Yglesias

How high and low you can go? Here's a vertical map of Earth

Frank Jacobs

7 world maps show the highs and lows of American exceptionalism

Frank Jacobs

These Vibrant Maps Reveal the World’s Hidden Geographies

One man’s journey from GIS specialist to artist.

Sarah Laskow

How the electoral college gerrymanders the presidential vote

Christopher Ingraham

Someone made a map of the world’s wind. It’s weirdly fun to play around with.

German Lopez

This “bad” election map? It’s not so bad.

Soo Oh

Why the Middle East Is Still a Mess a Century After the Sykes-Picot Agreement

It’s just the delayed but inevitable result of the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Fred Kaplan

European powers forced artificial borders on more places than the Middle East.

Sheri Berman

The bad map we see every presidential election

Liz Scheltens

This is an incredible visualization of the world's shipping routes

Brad Plumer

Slavery in the United States

Bill Rankin


This is an unbelievably awesome mapping and dataviz project.

The Black Death's utter destruction of 14th-century Europe, in one scary GIF

Zack Beauchamp

Why you’re not looking at Europe when you stare out from an Atlantic beach

Libby Nelson