Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea showed how spreading a narrative can erode sovereignty. The same playbook can now be seen ...

Myanmar’s authoritarian rulers are holding “sham” elections in the midst of civil war in a bid for global recognition ...

The Playbook uncovers the hidden patterns that are reshaping our world. From Russia to Hungary, India to Georgia, Coda has tracked how powerful people follow eerily similar steps to change the rules ...

In the criminal world, a key statistic has indeed suggested that for several years European crooks have been falling behind.

Two servicemen sit in an underground missile launch facility. Before them is a matrix of buttons and bulbs glowing red, white and green. Old-school screens with blocky, all-capped text beam beside ...

Today the Russian government is rewriting some of the darkest chapters of its Soviet past. The eyewitnesses of Soviet authoritarianism have a different story for us and a message for our era.

At first glance, Aqkol looks like most other villages in Kazakhstan today: shoddy construction, rusting metal gates and drab apartment blocks recall its Soviet past and lay bare the country’s ...

The Sir John Monash Centre, an Australian government-built project just outside the town of Villers-Bretonneux in northern France, offers a bizarre take on World War I. In an immersive theater ...

Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway to investigate a sordid accusation: Someone had called the police department and ...

On June 26, thousands of people gathered in central London to protest against the U.K. government’s Covid-19 restrictions — never mind that most of the measures were due to be lifted in two weeks’ ...

It was 1998. Olivier Rubbers, then 29 years old, came up with the idea of returning beavers to his local rivers. “My level of knowledge about nature was extremely poor,” he now confesses. But he’d ...