On the US-Mexico border, a corridor of surveillance becomes …
Jul 14, 2021 · An integrated fixed tower (IFT) in Arivaca, Arizona, one of 48 IFTs across the southwest border. Photo by Kitra Cahana. While there is little research on the intersection between border surveillance and migrant deaths, a 2019 peer-reviewed study by researchers from the University of Arizona and Earlham College found that the surveillance matrix along southern Arizona’s border — including ...
Coda Story
Battling History. Around the world, competing visions of history are clashing. Opposing camps fight these battles on the basis of fundamental issues of identity — who gets to belong and who gets cast aside. The events in question might be rooted in the past, but when it comes to how they are interpreted, it's really the future that is at stake.
How Chinese cottagecore swept the internet - Coda Story
Apr 21, 2021 · While such videos help to portray China favorably on the international stage, they also fit perfectly with the state’s domestic goals. After years of rapid urbanization and mass migration from the country to cities, Beijing’s “rural revitalization plan” is a top priority for 2021. The government wants to modernize agriculture, eliminate poverty and diversify countryside economies by ...
Banned, burned and critically acclaimed: Global reactions to a ...
Apr 15, 2022 · The Pulitzer Prize-winning book brings readers into the lives of Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Holocaust survivor, and his rebellious cartoonist son, Art. The novel unspools two parallel journeys: Art’s attempts to document, understand and ultimately write a graphic novel about his father’s experiences in the Holocaust, and Vladek’s ...
About Coda - Coda Story
About Coda Coda Media is a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to character-driven storytelling on the roots of major global crises. The expanding geography of authoritarianism is at the intersection of all our journalistic concerns. We report on the abuse of new technologies, the manipulation of scientific facts, the rise of oligarchy, the dangers of transnational repression,
Medieval history powers a crisis of identity in Lithuania and Belarus ...
Jul 26, 2022 · For Lithuanians, their country’s medieval history has been a source of pride, pageantry and identity. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a cosmopolitan, multi-ethnic, multilingual state that sprawled across swathes of the Baltics and eastern Europe, including modern-day Lithuania, Belarus, and parts of Poland, Latvia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Russia.
Oliver Bullough, Author at Coda Story
Aug 23, 2023 · Oliver Bullough is an award-winning journalist and author who writes Coda’s oligarchy newsletter, and specializes in writing about financial crime. His journalism appears in the Guardian, the New York Times, GQ magazine, BBC radio and elsewhere. His latest book was Butler to the World, which was longlisted for the FT business book of the year.
Edward Lucas, Author at Coda Story
Jul 8, 2021 · Edward Lucas. @edwardlucas. Edward Lucas is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). He was formerly a senior editor at The Economist. Lucas has covered Central and Eastern European affairs since 1986, writing, broadcasting, and speaking on the politics, economics, and security of the region.
In Kenya, thousands left in limbo without ID cards - Coda Story
Apr 13, 2020 · The UNHCR database includes the biometric data of refugees. -Rich Allela. The agency soon began sharing parts of its biometric and IT systems with Kenya’s Refugee Affairs Secretariat, which has since 2011 slowly and unevenly taken over the refugee registration process. The UNHCR has also strengthened the Kenyan state’s ability to carry out registration and develop its own refugee database.
Women fight to end digital sex crimes in South Korea - Coda Story
Dec 20, 2022 · Seo-yeon Park at home in Seoul. Photo by Jeong-mee Yoon. For many young people in Korea, this story will sound familiar. Despite years of public outrage and legislative efforts to curb digital sex crimes, the country remains home to a profitable industry that exploits non-consensual images of women, many of them underage, and even coerces them into sexual acts that are filmed and distributed ...