Afternoon Map

Midafternoon Map has returned as a biweekly newsletter with War on the Rocks. We're excited to be bringing readers more maps and more ca...

Somehow in the midst of looking at maps, I managed to write a book. If you're interested in how Turkey became a democracy and a NATO all...

One of the best parts of this blog is having people occasionally send me amazing maps that they've found or made. Today's contr...

Courtesy of Ross Perlin at the New Inquiry : "As the intellectual historian Svetlana Boym reminds us: “Curiously, intellectuals and...

Just some (mostly) middle east cityscapes from the British Library's amazing Flickr page . I don't know where most of these are, ...

"The Cupboard of the Yesterdays," a short story written by H. H. Munro a few years before he was killed on the Western Front i...

In responding to the rise of ISIL, many observers focused on the most obvious causes for alarm: sadistic violence, high-profile terror ...