Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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A Map of Countries That Don't Exist
A map of the world shows nearly 200 countries with borders that seem set in stone, but it turns out that there is a whole shadow world of countries that don't officially exist — at least not on world maps today.
Nick Middleton, geographer, author, and television documentary writer and presenter, fellow of St Anne's College, and the author of An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist: A Compendium of Fifty Unrecognized and Largely Unnoticed States (Chronicle Books, 2017), brings to life the histories of 50 states that, lacking international recognition and United Nations membership, exist on the cusp of legitimacy within the global order.