May 10, 2023 | Featured, Politics & Society
Feature Photo by Random Institute on Unsplash Story by Jeremy Morris How has Russia changed, more than a year after its invasion of Ukraine? Has it become a fascist state with soldiers in the classroom, and people afraid to express the slightest doubts about the war?...
Jan 26, 2022 | Politics & Society
By Heather Vogell New legal filing reveals startling details of possible fraud by Trump Organisation. A new legal filing by New York’s attorney general this week accused former President Donald Trump’s company of misleading lenders about the financial health of its...
Nov 17, 2021 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Ellis Simani, Robert Faturechi & Ken Ward Jr. IRS records reveal how Gov. Jim Justice, Gov. Jared Polis, former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other wealthy political figures slashed their taxes using strategies unavailable to most of their constituents....
Nov 17, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Josh Von Trapp As terrible as the human rights and security situations in Afghanistan are already, things could get worse if the Taliban’s clean governance turns dirty. On August 15, 2021, the Taliban marched into Kabul unopposed, toppling the Western-backed...
Apr 28, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Zachary Meskell New Zealand needs additional transparency measures to shed light on “dark money” in politics, says Zachary Meskell. Earlier this year, Transparency International released its annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and, once again, New Zealand was...
Apr 15, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Rumilda Canete-Straub, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Stephane Straub & Karine Van der Straeten “The conventional argument in favor of open-list systems as a remedy against corruption is that voters can express their preferences over the individual candidates on...
Jan 28, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Matthew Stephenson Last week, on January 20, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States replacing Donald Trump. First, let’s all breathe a collective sigh of relief. OK, now we can start thinking about what we’ve learned from this traumatic...
Nov 12, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Richard Messick President-elect Biden has rightly made bringing Americans together his highest priority. His greatest challenge will be whether he can lead the nation into a reckoning with the Trump years without further inflaming passions. President Trump and...
Nov 3, 2020 | Politics & Society
Since the U.S. presidential election of 2016, people around the world have debated Donald Trump’s rise to power. How did he win the election? What kind of political regime has he established? And how has that regime transformed the United States of America? In this...
Oct 29, 2020 | Politics & Society
By Zachary Meskell From the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, activists and analysts have called attention to the significant corruption risks associated with the response to both the public health crisis itself and the economic disruption it has caused....