Recent events in the South Caucasus show how the authoritarian playbook is exported and adapted to suit local contexts. From ...

Why journalism that refuses to simplify, refuses to look away from messy, contradictory realities remains essential to ...

When I lived in Bishkek 25 years ago, then-president Askar Akayev was so effusive in expressing his desire for Kyrgyzstan to ...

With the US operation in Iran triggering fresh arms races, Russia’s turn from multipolarity to imperial nostalgia highlights ...

Besmir Billa playing a traditional Albanian instrument, called the cifteli, in Kukes. All the while, there is a parallel reality playing out far from home, one that the people of Kukes see in glimpses ...

In a recent email Parker sent in response to questions for this article, he told me that, so far, fewer than 100 people had taken the Lightning Process course for long Covid. “The anecdotal results ...

He procured almost all the beavers from Gerhard Schwab, a wildlife manager based in Bavaria known as “the Pablo Escobar of beavers.” Over the years, Schwab has bred beavers and helped numerous ...

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 ...

It was our first interview shoot for Coda Story’s Generation Gulag series and we were running late. Irina Verblovskaya, 86, was expecting us but our film crew couldn’t find her tiny green cottage ...

Across the U.S., a surveillance system tracking the movements of tens of thousands of people seeking refuge or permanent residency in the U.S. is quietly but quickly expanding. The ankle monitor ...

One-time Brexit Party MEP Martin Daubney has become a leading face of the UK’s anti-lockdown movement. Photo credit: Facebook Media assault In May 2020, Daubney and two former Brexit Party figures set ...

For the past year, Greece’s land border with Turkey, bounded by the fast-flowing Evros river, has been a focus for the country’s conservative government. Activists describe this heavily militarized ...