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Editor-in-Chief Natalia Antelava curates Coda’s most powerful storytelling and narrative journalism, bringing you unforgettable stories that reveal how the shifting currents of global power shape our daily lives, from Silicon Valley to the South China Sea.
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The Future According to Silicon Valley’s Prophets
December 7, 2025
“A tech bro on acid is still a tech bro — they just become a psychedelically amplified tech bro,” is how writer and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff put it to me last year. “These guys have a hallucinatory confidence over their plans. And they’re developing tech that is as potentially disruptive to civilization as nuclear weapons.”
A Ukrainian Photographer’s Journey through the Apocalyptic Noir
November 30, 2025
“Oleksandr’s photos are not journalistic in the conventional sense. He describes them as ‘apocalyptic noir’, as they imagine a protagonist driving through streets haunted by memory, by the homes destroyed. He photographs what he lives, and what he lives is war. ”
The Age of Exile
November 23, 2025
“Understanding displacement in the 21st century has become central to understanding power itself: how it is exercised across borders, how resistance operates, and how communities reorganize around new forms of belonging.”