Philanthropist is a great word, deriving as it does from an ancient Greek term for “love of humankind”. In theory it could ...

Trump’s Alaska summit was more than diplomatic theater, it exposed how authoritarians weaponize our collective amnesia to reshape narratives and seize control ...

There has been much speculation in financial circles that the White House’s erratic policymaking, random tariffs, and general ...

There are now several books about the 2007-8 financial crisis, the best of which, in my opinion, is Adam Tooze’s ‘Crashed’.

ZEG Network In a world overwhelmed by noise and starved of meaning, ZEG Network is a new initiative by Coda Story and partners, designed to create spaces for deep, meaningful conversations that cut ...

As Silicon Valley’s influence expands, a new belief system is quietly reshaping society. This piece explores how tech elites are redefining power, the risks to human agency, and what it will take to ...

When I think back to my time growing up in the 1980s and ‘90s in a small authoritarian Eastern European state bordering Greece, Turkey, Romania and the Black Sea, one scene always springs to mind: ...

This article is an adapted extract from CAPTURED, our new podcast series with Audible about the secret behind Silicon Valley’s AI Takeover. Click here to listen. We’re moving slowly through the ...

Your Early Warning System This story is part of “The Playbook,” our special issue in which Coda acts as your early warning system for democracy. For seven years, we’ve tracked how freedoms erode ...

From Greenland to Gaza, from the Panama Canal to Mars, Donald Trump’s territorial ambitions span the globe. Once described as an isolationist, Trump’s rhetoric increasingly resembles that of a ...

It was 2014, and I was standing in the ruins of Donetsk airport, when a Russian-backed rebel commander launched into what seemed like an oddly academic lecture. Between bursts of artillery fire, he ...

Among Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders, all signed in the first week of his new term, perhaps the one with the most far-reaching impact was also one of the least talked about and scrutinized.