There are now several books about the 2007-8 financial crisis, the best of which, in my opinion, is Adam Tooze’s ‘Crashed’.

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Some terms – such as “virtue signalling” – are irritating and illuminating in equal measure. The insult “grant eater”, which ...

In September, the International Criminal Court will conduct a confirmation of charges hearing against warlord Joseph Kony.

The conference organisers, the International Telecommunication Union, a UN agency, said “all speakers are welcome to share ...

No one becomes an anti-corruption activist to make money, least of all in Ukraine. When I first met the co-founders of the ...

As Silicon Valley’s influence expands, a new belief system is quietly reshaping society. This piece explores how tech elites are redefining power, the risks to human agency, and what it will take to ...

A panorama of destruction in the old city of Mosul. The conversation happened at a moment when the Middle East was literally on the brink of a wider war. The old fault lines – sectarian, geopolitical, ...

How did you start thinking about ways to build rights and guardrails around neurotechnology? Rafael: I was inspired by the Manhattan Project, where scientists who developed nuclear technology were ...

Your Early Warning System 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 ...