The Big Idea

Shifting Borders

Borders are liminal, notional spaces made more unstable by unparalleled migration, geopolitical ambition and the use of technology to transcend and, conversely, reinforce borders. Perhaps the most urgent contemporary question is how we now imagine and conceptualize boundaries. And, as a result, how we think about community. In this special issue are stories of postcolonial maps, of dissidents tracked in places of refuge, of migrants whose bodies become the borderline, and of frontier management outsourced by rich countries to much poorer ones.
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Technology

Modern technology was supposed to end dictatorship. But will it end democracy instead?

Oligarchy

Putin's Oligarchs: A year in the sanctioned lives of Russia’s richest men

Stunned by sanctions, Russia’s wealthiest families take drastic steps to survive

interactive BY CODA STAFF AND LIGHTHOUSE REPORTS

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The Big Idea

Age of Nostalgia

Infatuation with a mythologized history has overtaken communities, cultures, entire regions, sending society and identity into a fun-house mirror of nostalgic reflections. This special issue brings you stories of people finding solace in pasts imagined and grieving for futures foreclosed in a time of existential threats.
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