How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs
The Kicker16 Joulu 2025

How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs

When Natalia Antelava cofounded Coda Story, in early 2016, to cover democratic backsliding around the globe, she wasn’t expecting the tech industry to be such a big part of the story. It wasn’t only that autocratic regimes were benefiting from compliant Silicon Valley companies. By launching a new media organization, Antelava also discovered how entangled journalism itself had become with some of the same companies, which proclaimed their commitment to a free press while quietly cozying up to...

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The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East

The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an award-winning Iraqi journalist for The Guardian and the author of A Stranger in Your Own City (2023), a reported memoir of his life as an architect turned journalist during the...

23 Kesä 202543min

What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?

What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?

David Fahrenthold won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2016 reporting on how Donald Trump’s lifetime of charitable giving was largely a mirage. Nine years later, he’s still reporting on how Trumpworld’s cla...

17 Kesä 202524min

‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams

‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams

For more than thirty years, Phil Williams has been the steadying voice of investigative reporting at NewsChannel 5, in Nashville. His deep dives into toxic wastewater and lobbyist access to state poli...

29 Touko 202530min

‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media

‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media

Last week, Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the end of funding for NPR and PBS. It’s the latest attempt by conservatives to cut back on support for public media, and in particular ta...

9 Touko 202532min

Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network

Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network

A few years ago, El Salvador was one of the most violent nations in the world, with gang killings taking the lives of dozens of people every week. Nayib Bukele, elected president in 2019, changed all...

24 Huhti 202529min

Kai Ryssdal Was America’s Economic Voice of Reason This Week

Kai Ryssdal Was America’s Economic Voice of Reason This Week

Kai Ryssdal has been the host of Marketplace, a leading daily radio show and podcast about the economy, produced by American Public Media, since 2005. He delivers the news—from the bitter latest on o...

11 Huhti 202524min

Carlos Watson Goes Free: A Surprising Coda to the CJR Podcast

Carlos Watson Goes Free: A Surprising Coda to the CJR Podcast

Prosecutors weren’t notified in advance, witnesses are in shock—and Watson’s family celebrates his freedom. On the day that Carlos Watson, the founder of the digital media company Ozy Media, was due t...

4 Huhti 202519min

Molly White Knows You Don’t Understand Crypto

Molly White Knows You Don’t Understand Crypto

If you thought “DOGE” only stood for the “Department of Government Efficiency”—well, you’re not alone. The world of crypto is full of double meanings and inside jokes, making the recent arrival of the...

28 Maalis 202525min

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