The manufactured crisis of Ceuta - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani14d ago
A ride from Tangier, the largest city in northern Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta takes less than two hours.
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top 99%Standing with strangers, a Tbilisi story - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Frankie Mills21 Jul 2026
We’re inching forwards through the thick smog that has cloaked Tbilisi for days. At first, I thought it was a kind of blueish, pink winter mist that makes the city feel like it’s in an ongoing...
FIFA’s games betray our trust - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough15 Jul 2026
FIFA’s games betray our trust A lot is written about corruption, but fundamentally it’s about trust and how healthy societies can’t exist without it; and the World Cup has shown what happens when...
The Chilean curse is its abundance of riches - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Phineas Rueckert15 Jul 2026
After kilometers of flat, orange desert, the bus dives down through an increasingly lunar landscape as it reaches San Pedro de Atacama.
Holding the U.S. to account, Tether exits EU & Congo’s conflict coltan - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough8 Jul 2026
Holding the U.S. to account, Tether exits EU & Congo’s conflict coltan The United Kingdom has taken over the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force, the global standard-setter on tackling...
How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze24 Jun 2026
How governments enable kleptocrats by doing nothing I was listening to Ezra Klein interviewing a left-wing Democratic Party strategist the other day about what a post-Trump U.S.
Trillionaires are a national security risk - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough17 Jun 2026
Trillionaires are a national security risk I’ve been writing this newsletter since 2020, and in my first edition I marvelled at the concept of the centi-billionaire, and the fact there were at the...
Donald Trump’s $250 gift to launderers and criminals - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze2 Jun 2026
Donald Trump’s $250 gift to launderers and criminals It has become a theme of this newsletter to lay out what is needed to tackle financial crime, and then to point out how the U.S.
AI is not the answer to AI-enabled fraud - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze27 May 2026
AI is not the answer to AI-enabled fraud A top banker has got in trouble by referring to employees whose jobs will be replaced by AI as “lower-value human capital.” But he’s just saying the quiet...
Crypto’s corrupt American dream - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze20 May 2026
Crypto’s corrupt American dream The United States is inching closer to passing a gigantic piece of legislation to put cryptocurrencies on a secure footing, with the bill emerging unscathed from the...
The new samizdat - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani18 May 2026
While much of the media industry focused on the churn of headlines, we became increasingly interested in the undercurrents beneath them: the hidden systems, infrastructures and ideologies shaping...
Legalize Cocaine to save democracy - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani13 May 2026
Legalize Cocaine to save democracy Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK’s right-wing Reform UK party, has taken millions of pounds from crypto people, including one convicted of financial crimes in...
How Brazil is starting to rein in Big Tech - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani13 May 2026
On April 24, Brazil’s competition authority, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) announced it was opening an investigation to assess whether Google’s use of news content amounted...
The afterlife of empire - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani12 May 2026
On May 3, an unusual procession moved through Washington DC. Several hundred people walked beneath the monuments of the American capital carrying portraits of Red Army soldiers.
Wealth is health, Insider betting & Trump will see himself in court - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Teona Tsintsadze6 May 2026
Wealth is health, Insider betting & Trump will see himself in court Inequality is bad for you, and new figures in the UK show that the number of years when people can live healthy lives have fallen...
Why an insurgency in Mali matters in Moscow - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Irina Matchavariani1 May 2026
A coup is underway in Mali, though it has not brought down the governing junta just yet. The country’s military leader, General Assimi Goïta has, after days in hiding, appeared in public to claim...
Why Trump-backer Justin Sun is suing the Trumps’ firm - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough29 Apr 2026
Why Trump-backer Justin Sun is suing the Trumps’ firm Donald Trump and the crypto world have done well out of each other.
"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Isobel Cockerell28 Apr 2026
It starts with a simple search term in the Department of Justice’s Epstein Library. “Blue eyes.” Hundreds of results.
Teens making drones: Russia’s demographic collapse - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Masho Lomashvili24 Apr 2026
My name is Darina,” says an elfin teen, ponytail pulled through the back of her cap, and “next year I’ll be earning 150,000 rubles (nearly $2,000) a month.” Darina works at what she calls “the...
Why Europe must disable Russia’s crypto ecosystem - Coda Story
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough22 Apr 2026
Why Europe must disable Russia’s crypto ecosystem Someone recently asked me what mark out of 10 I’d give for the efforts of governments to tackle financial crime.