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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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How do you solve a problem like the BVI?

1 day 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 week 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 week 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

2 weeks 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

2 weeks 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.
I’m trans, and in 2016 I voted for Donald Trump. Now I want to leave the country

2 weeks ago | codastory.com | Danielle Marie |Isobel Cockerell

As Donald Trump tries to effectively prevent trans people from participating in public life – most recently asking the Supreme Court to reinstate a ban on trans troops – it’s difficult to imagine that he might have any supporters at all who identify as trans. But they exist. In March 2018, as a graduate student at Columbia Journalism School, I wrote an article for the Daily Beast called The Transgender Conservatives Who Are Sticking With Trump.
Pope Francis's final warning

2 weeks ago | codastory.com | Isobel Cockerell

Whoever becomes the next Pope will inherit not just the leadership of the Catholic Church but a remarkably sophisticated approach to technology — one that in many ways outpaces governments worldwide. While Silicon Valley frames Artificial Intelligence as a quasi-religious force capable of “saving humanity,” the Vatican has been methodically developing theological and ethical arguments to counter this narrative.
Where kleptocrats go house-hunting

4 weeks 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

1 month 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?

1 month 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.