Journalism that unpacks the global authoritarian toolkit
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Authoritarian Tech
In this current, stories on how technology has captured every aspect of our lives from intimacy to politics.
Who owns the rights to your brain?
Soon technology will enable us to read and manipulate thoughts. A neurobiologist and an international lawyer joined forces to propose ways to protect ourselves
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.
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Oligarchy
Tracking how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us.
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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.
When globalization was king and home was elsewhere
India was my external identity, Britain my interior one, and Kuwait was a metaphorical suburban bedroom where my fantasies played out.
Is there any point in talking to a flat-earther? One philosopher thinks so
The author and science historian Lee McIntyre discusses his latest book ‘How to Talk to a Science Denier’
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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Rewriting History
In this current, stories on how those in power shape our future by weaponized the past and manipulating our memories
How Democracies Die: The Script for a Three-Act Play
In Trump’s America, the plot is starting to seem all too familiar
To control the future, rewrite the past
Why Elon and Alice want Germany to get over its “cult of shame”
A Ukrainian filmmaker photographs a sinister landscape
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
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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.
A philosophy professor proposes an Institute for Ascertaining Scientific Consensus
A consensus-finding institution could help determine what constitutes an established truth, a boon to society. But can it really curb the spread of misinformation?
Why the Czech government can’t beat back online disinformation
Attempts to stop homegrown false narratives from proliferating online have largely failed
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.
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