Journalism that unpacks the global authoritarian toolkit
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Oligarchy
Tracking how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us.
The Big Idea
The Playbook
History doesn’t repeat, but it sure does rhyme. In this special series, we expose the tactics that powerful leaders use to change societies—tactics that follow surprisingly similar patterns wherever they appear
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Polarization
Who you are and what you believe have been weaponized in new ways in the power struggles of the 21st century. We track what price individuals and societies pay for these identity battles.
The Truth Social Truce
Donald Trump is taking credit for preventing a catastrophic war between nuclear powers India and Pakistan. Delhi is not amused
I’m trans, and in 2016 I voted for Donald Trump. Now I want to leave the country
As Donald Trump tries to effectively prevent trans people from participating in public life – most recently asking the Supreme Court to reinstate a ban on trans troops – it’s difficult to imagine that he might have any supporters at all who identify as trans. But they exist. In March 2018, as a graduate student
Our visual narrative has just won the prestigious National Magazine Award for Best Service and Lifestyle Photography. Read more about the award and our collaboration with Stranger’s Guide.
coda story + stranger’s guide collaboration
Our photo story ‘The New Aztecs’ wins National Magazine Award
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Rewriting History
In this current, stories on how those in power shape our future by weaponized the past and manipulating our memories
How to find your voice when you are being silenced
Resisting authoritarianism is about remaining engaged, remaining receptive and, above all, not turning away
How Democracies Die: The Script for a Three-Act Play
In Trump’s America, the plot is starting to seem all too familiar
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Authoritarian Tech
In this current, stories on how technology has captured every aspect of our lives from intimacy to politics.
The capture of journalism and the illusion of objectivity
Faced with hostility, hollowed out by Big Tech, journalists must ask themselves a question: ‘ What do we stand for?’
Captured: how Silicon Valley is building a future we never chose
AI’s prophets speak of the technology with religious fervor. And they expect us all to become believers.
Special project
Generation Gulag: how Russia rewrites its Soviet history
Today the Russian government is rewriting some of the darkest chapters of its Soviet past. The eyewitnesses of Soviet authoritarianism have a different story for us and a message for our era.
BY CODA STAFF
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Disinformation
Truth is under attack as our information system splinters. Ever more platforms and voices means ever more noise and alternative facts. This current looks at the winners and the losers in the war for people’s minds.
The Christian right’s persecution complex
Some MAGA supporters accuse Ukraine of attacking Christianity. It’s a perception that has been over a decade in the making and projects Vladimir Putin as a champion of traditional values
Why the Czech government can’t beat back online disinformation
Attempts to stop homegrown false narratives from proliferating online have largely failed
When Russian troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022 the documentary filmmaker Oleksandr Techynskyi quickly moved his wife and two teenage daughters out of the country and took a job translating for a foreign TV crew covering the war. Where he once spent his days making lyrical films, he now spends endless hours crisscrossing the country
A Ukrainian filmmaker photographs a sinister landscape
