I am a regular listener to Ezra Klein’s podcast, and I’m a fan. There should be more podcasts that treat serious issues ...

Recent events in the South Caucasus show how the authoritarian playbook is exported and adapted to suit local contexts. From ...

Why journalism that refuses to simplify, refuses to look away from messy, contradictory realities remains essential to ...

When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

Years of sanctions have substantially weakened the Iranian economy, as evidenced by Iran’s keenness to have them cancelled, with sanctions removal a key sticking point in negotiations with the U.S.

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: ...

Sara Lomax (WURD/URL Media), Karen McMullen (Urbanworld) & Martin Reynolds (Maynard Institute) discuss how the Black press in America was born from activism, fighting for the humanity of people who ...

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 ...

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 around the world—now we’re ...