codastory.comadded August 2026
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
Coda Storyby Nic Dawes20 Apr 2026
In 2016, when Peter Thiel killed Gawker, he insisted that he wasn’t attacking journalism writ large.
Coda Storyby Mark Sigetty Bøje16 Apr 2026
“They’re shooting smoke at protesters.” “They broke doors.” “They brought an armored vehicle.” In Aarhus, Denmark, Hemad Nazari lay in bed, refreshing his phone.
Coda Storyby Oliver Bullough8 Apr 2026
The performative war on money laundering Dutch friends like to tell me that their nation’s primary characteristic is bluntness, and the Netherlands’ Court of Audit has done nothing to challenge the...
Coda Storyby Matthew Janney7 Apr 2026
On the night of January 16, 2024, Egana Djabbarova was awoken by her wife and told that she needed to leave the country immediately.
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