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Coda Story focuses on one major crisis at a time, dedicating a team of journalists to explore it in depth. This approach provides a thorough understanding and ongoing insight into events that influence our world. Coda is for individuals who recognize that grasping the complexities of a crisis is crucial for addressing it, and for those curious about what unfolds after the media attention fades. In music, a Coda is a unique section that typically appears near the end, summarizing the entire piece. Similarly, in journalism, Coda serves as a distinctive voice that sheds light on a crisis. Our team consists of skilled reporters, editors, technologists, and designers, all committed to sharing stories you may not have encountered before and revealing connections you may not have realized existed.

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Behind the Scenes at ZEG: A Global Laboratory for Storytelling

5 days ago | codastory.com | Natalia Antelava

The girl in the black Audrey Hepburn dress was crying in the bathroom, mascara running down her cheeks. We found her by chance—a total stranger using the bathroom of a hotel where we were hosting a giant dinner party for our 200 guests. My ZEG co-founders and I, on a quick trip away from our sprawling table, gathered around her, wanting to understand what had happened. Through tears, she told us her boyfriend had just broken up with her and announced he was getting engaged to someone else.
The oligarch’s guide to sitting out a nuclear winter

1 week ago | codastory.com | Oliver Bullough

perspective I’ve been thinking a lot about the apocalypse in the last few days, and wondering what options oligarchs believe are available to help them escape it. In Mark Lynas’s new book about atomic weapons, he helpfully provides a table showing what percentage of each country’s population would die during or immediately after a nuclear war.
Sudan’s forgotten war

2 weeks ago | codastory.com | Olatunji Olaigbe

Last week, Donald Trump was on a glitzy, bonhomous trip through Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. Amidst the talk of hundreds of billions of dollars signed in deals, the rise of Gulf states as potential AI superpowers, and gifts of luxury jetliners, it was announced that the Trump administration had agreed arms deals worth over $3 billion with both Qatar and the UAE. Democrats are looking to block the deals.
Making America corrupt again?

2 weeks ago | codastory.com | Oliver Bullough

perspective Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, some 31 percent of “revenue agents” (the people tasked with conducting tax audits) have lost their jobs. This is supposed to save the government money, but it’s a bit like trying to reduce the cost of crime by sacking police officers. “This administration is clearly running the risk of losing hundreds of billions of dollars — in fact, likely over $1 trillion — through its destruction of the IRS.
The Vatican challenges AI's god complex

3 weeks ago | codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell

As Rome prepared to select a new pope, few beyond Vatican insiders were focused on what the transition would mean for the Catholic Church’s stance on artificial intelligence. Yet Pope Francis has established the Church as an erudite, insightful voice on AI ethics.
How do you solve a problem like the BVI?

3 weeks ago | codastory.com | Oliver Bullough

perspective Apparently, the word “deadline” was first coined in a notoriously brutal Confederacy-run prison during the American Civil War: any prisoners that crossed the line got killed. The point of a deadline is that, if you don’t stick to it, there are severe consequences. So what do you call a line that, should you cross it, brings zero consequences? A shrug-line? A meh-line? A British-Overseas-Territories-line?
Gaming the passport lottery

1 month ago | codastory.com | Oliver Bullough

perspective Pretty much everyone in Brussels has had it in for Malta’s “Citizenship by Investment programme ever since it launched a decade ago, but it took the European Court of Justice to finally kill it, on the basis that it’s illegal to make acquisition of a passport a “mere commercial transaction”. “Such ‘commercialisation’ of citizenship is incompatible with the basic concept of Union citizenship,” the court declared.
The capture of journalism and the illusion of objectivity

1 month ago | codastory.com | Natalia Antelava

In early April, I found myself in the breathtaking Chiesa di San Francesco al Prato in Perugia, Italy talking about men who are on a mission to achieve immortality. As sunlight filtered through glass onto worn stone walls, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie recounted a dinner with a Silicon Valley mogul who believes drinking his son’s blood will help him live forever. “We’ve got it wrong,” Bryan Johnson told Chris. “God didn’t create us.
War on Science - Coda Story

1 month ago | codastory.com | Derek Beres |Emily Schultheis |Isobel Cockerell |Erica Hellerstein

War on Science Science once stood as society’s trusted compass for understanding the modern world and our place within it, but today, this foundation faces unprecedented attacks from multiple fronts. Our special series War on Science reveals how fringe skepticism has infiltrated mainstream discourse, reshaped public policy and threatens global progress on critical issues from climate change to public health. How have these anti-science movements gained legitimacy?
Poor little rich men

1 month ago | codastory.com | Oliver Bullough

perspective According to Oxfam, In its annual survey of inequality, “there’s never been a better time to be a billionaire.” The rise in monopolies, inheritances, and soaring asset prices means global inequality, Oxfam argues, is now close to where it was at the peak of Western imperialism. But this is not the impression you receive from interviews with individual billionaires, such as Egypt’s Nassef Sawiris.