Are You Financing Seafood Crime?
As some of the world's top seafood consumers, Americans funnel billions of dollars a year to a shady network of exploitative fish launderers.
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Corruption
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The Staggering Costs of Kickbacks, Bribery, and Theft in the Military
The structure of the military means that when people high up in the chain of command aren’t held responsible for the crimes they commit, that message will quickly ripple down the ranks.
How Much Corruption Do We Want in Our Politicians?
It may well be that leadership requires some unsavory arm-twisting and palm-greasing.
Want Honest Public Servants? Pay Them Better
New research from Germany finds that public servants are more likely to accept bribes if their income is lower than that of the citizen doing the bribing.
Auditor Says Scammer Sold USAID $500/Gallon Gas
And a four-figure temperature control device for $220,000.
Meet the Flexians
A new professional class of movers and shakers—people who serve overlapping roles in government, business, and media with smiling finesse—is controlling the flow of power and money in America. The anthropologist Janine Wedel is bent on making us understand just how dangerous this new normal can be.
Are Conflict Diamonds Rigging Today’s Zimbabwe Elections?
Global Witness, the London-based resource watchdog, thinks so.
Where Bribes Bite Like Taxes
In some places, nearly 15 percent of monthly income goes to greasing palms.
Could China’s Communist Party Have Jumped the Shark at Wenzhou?
The current issue of The New Yorker features a lengthy look at China’s Wenzhou train disaster of last…
The Corrections
In 1896, William Randolph Hearst unleashed his pit-bull ace reporter, Ambrose Bierce, in the nation’s capital to expose the Railroad robber baron's grip on California’s Legislature. Reforms happened. The state was returned to its people. Trouble is, some of those fixes are bringing California to its knees.