What's in a name?

Newspeak comes for Google Maps; Mitch McConnell breaks it, we buy it; American diplomacy enters its supervillain era

If you’re looking to find your way around the southerly parts of North America this week, you’ve probably noticed that Google Maps has renamed the Gulf of Mexico to suit President Trump’s tastes. Other services (Apple and Microsoft, for instance) are following suit, though there are some holdouts, like mapping pioneer MapQuest.

Map users so far seem unh…