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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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Where kleptocrats go house-hunting

1 week ago | codastory.com | Oliver Bullough

perspective Regular readers will know I dislike Transparency International’s flagship Corruption Perceptions Index, but my only objection to TI’s interesting new Opacity in Real Estate Ownership index is the acronym. Honestly, who thought OREO was appropriate here? Own up. Kleptocrats love buying property, partly because it’s a good way to get rid of a lot of money at once, but mainly because it tends to be both a good investment and gives one a nice place to live.
Lawless in Saipan, and Trump pardons crypto bros

2 weeks ago | codastory.com | Oliver Bullough

perspective I visited the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands a couple of years ago, intrigued by its curious bad luck in repeatedly being struck by massive gaming and money laundering scandals, like this one and this one. In case you’re not au fait with the CNMI, it’s a US territory north of Guam, which is best known as the place the Enola Gay and the Bockscar departed from on their way to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Who owns the rights to your brain?

3 weeks ago | codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell

Jared Genser and Rafael Yuste are an unlikely pair. Yuste, a professor at Columbia University, spends his days in neuroscience labs, using lasers to experiment on the brains of mice. Genser has traveled the world as an international human rights lawyer representing prisoners in 30 countries. But when they met, the two became fast friends.
Captured: how Silicon Valley is building a future we never chose

3 weeks ago | codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell

In April last year I was in Perugia, at the annual international journalism festival. I was sitting in a panel session about whether AI marked the end of journalism, when a voice note popped up on my Signal. This story is part of “Captured”, our special issue in which we ask whether AI, as it becomes integrated into every part of our lives, is now a belief system. Who are the prophets? What are the commandments? Is there an ethical code? How do the AI evangelists imagine the future?
In Kenya’s slums, they’re doing our digital dirty work

3 weeks ago | codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell

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 traffic in the heart of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Gleaming office blocks have sprung up in the past few years, looming over the townhouses and shopping malls. We’re with a young man named James Oyange — but everyone who knows him calls him Mojez.
When I’m 125? - Coda Story

3 weeks ago | codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell

I grew up in rural Idaho in the late 80s and early 90s. My childhood was idyllic. I’m the oldest of five children. My father was an engineer-turned-physician, and my mother was a musician — she played the violin and piano. We lived in an amazing community, with great schools, dear friends and neighbors. There was lots of skiing, biking, swimming, tennis, and time spent outdoors.
A crypto government for a crypto nation

3 weeks ago | codastory.com | Oliver Bullough

perspective Last week I attended a crypto conference in Washington, D.C., and can report back that things are changing fast. New regulations look certain to come through in a hurry and – judging by the heinous quantity of lawyers in the venue – a lot of people are very serious about making a lot of money from them. This is, in my opinion, not good.
Captured - Coda Story

3 weeks ago | codastory.com | J. Paul Neeley |Isobel Cockerell

is a thrilling journey into the hidden worlds of the tech elite, and a whistleblower’s look into the sci-fi future they’re building for all of us. Listen to the podcast here, and dig deeper into its characters and stories below.
When autocrats buy zebras

3 weeks ago | codastory.com | Natalia Antelava

Victor Orbán wants to adopt a zebra. Reading about the Hungarian Prime Minister’s bizarre request to become a “symbolic ‘adoptive parent’” of a zoo zebra, I had a feeling of déjà vu. Another oligarch, Bidzina Ivanishvili, who lives in a glass castle overlooking my hometown Tbilisi, is also obsessed with zebras. To be fair, he has a whole private menagerie. “Lemurs roamed free in my yard like cats,” Ivanishvili once boasted to journalists. He’s even taken selected reporters to meet his zebras.
Did a Putin ally evade sanctions to pay private school fees?

4 weeks ago | codastory.com | Oliver Bullough

perspective A striking characteristic of Russian officials has long been how they combine passionate opposition to all the West professes to stand for with a marked willingness to invest, live, educate their children, party, and litigate in the West. And that brings us to Dmitry Ovsyannikov (there’ll be more on the elaborate spelling of his name in a bit), who was appointed governor of the city of Sevastopol by Vladimir Putin in 2016.