Coda Story
Journalism that unpacks the global authoritarian toolkit, such as the abuse of new technologies, the rise of oligarchy and the manipulation of scientific fact.
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- 1/ How do autocrats stay in power? By rewriting history. From Russia to China to North Korea, leaders manipulate the past to crush dissent and secure power, turning patriotism into a powerful tool for control. buff.ly/iRCQL3W
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- 1/ What if AI could let us talk to loved ones after they’re gone? As tech brings digital afterlives closer to reality, new questions emerge about grief, memory, and the ethics of recreating the dead. Read more here: buff.ly/5hQNqAp
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- 1/ Nostalgia isn't a strategy, but it is a powerful weapon. Carney's Davos speech echoes a 2021 Coda story: how Orbán rewrote Hungary's origin story to justify authoritarian drift. Performing belief in a past that never existed normalizes what comes next. buff.ly/8TuFv78
- From New York to Palestine, people are ditching their smartphones, rejecting constant surveillance and platform capture. They say they’re decolonizing their consciousness: buff.ly/1uO9RMw
- Trump's Greenland demands aren't just provocations—they're deliberate recalibrations of what we consider possible. Natalia Antelava on how the Overton Window shatters: not through debate, but through exhausting our resistance to the extreme. buff.ly/go0gqo4
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- As veteran Beirut-based journalist Jim Muir explains the new elements of the current protests in Iran — including the emergence of Reza Pahlavi as the unifying symbol behind the protest movement — he asks whether there is enough momentum for actual regime change. buff.ly/HukPp0T
- In Oliver Bullough’s Oligarchy this week: The value of euros in circulation have, unlike dollars, been stagnating. So why is the number of printed euros now at record levels? And Greenland as a tax dodger’s paradise? Sign up here: buff.ly/bWbB4Zq
- 1/ What happens to those whose images go viral from conflict zones? In Kashmir, the internet ensures their trauma lives on indefinitely, even as the world's attention moves elsewhere. Discover their stories: buff.ly/RtxkuFs
- 1/ What does it mean to lose your mother tongue or inherit a language shaped by colonialism? In "My Mother Tongues," Shougat Dasgupta explores his family's migration from India to Kuwait and the legacy of language, identity, and belonging. buff.ly/CjFMKdV
- 1/ Writing for Coda Story, Luba Kassova draws on her life in authoritarian Bulgaria to explore how fear fuels self-censorship – and why similar patterns are emerging in the U.S. today. buff.ly/chYYLPa buff.ly/ssoYJUV
- In @OliverBullough’s Oligarchy this week: It may have taken 24 years but an email fraudster’s victims finally get their money back. And why multiplying multi-centibillionaires are bad for democracy. Sign up here: buff.ly/Fuf4egH
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- 1/ Faith has become a geopolitical weapon. Russia frames Ukraine as anti-Christian, with some US religious conservatives repeating these claims—influencing Western views as Moscow uses religion to expand its influence. buff.ly/6ToCMo4
- In 2019, Germany formally classified a nativist movement as extremist. In 2026, the movement’s ideals are standard mainstream politics across Europe and the U.S. buff.ly/rW9Ip5s
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- 1/ While Amazon cuts 30K jobs for AI investment, Goldman projects 7% of US workers face displacement. Philosopher Nick Bostrom discusses with Coda how we're nearing a critical shift toward either utopia or extinction. buff.ly/jJATzPD
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- 1/7 The pendulum swings: Last week's capture of Maduro was months in the making. When Kast won Chile's presidency in December, his first trip was to Buenos Aires—to embrace Milei, pose with a chainsaw, and back Trump's Venezuela regime change plans. buff.ly/UWjJVos
- 1/ Natalia Antelava examines how Russia's discriminatory policies have become a template for governments worldwide, tracing the global spread of the Kremlin's political tactics. buff.ly/DFRzUKL
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- 1/ Nearly a million Russians fled after the invasion of Ukraine—including the artists who defined their work by confronting Putin's regime. Can art born from oppression survive without it? Our 2023 archive piece on Russian performance art in exile: buff.ly/yv9VTV3
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- 1/ What if the digital content you consume daily is as toxic as polluted water? Judy Estrin challenges us to rethink how we “drink” from today’s information streams—and why it matters more than ever. buff.ly/dx3YTqs
- “Why would I choose to return, knowing about the surveillance, detentions, and slander that awaited me? Let my daughter push me away if it meant she’d stay Uyghur. Let my daughter shine, as I had, thriving in Uyghur misfortune.” buff.ly/5VU9xSC
