Corruption

The International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala faces baseless claims of Russian collusion, threatening the progress Gutemala has made in its war on...

Instead of acknowledging the significant degree to which Ukraine has changed for the better, Western-backed approaches misrepresent ongoing reforms as woefully...

Since 2014, the  Brazilian political class have pushed back against the Operation Car Wash anticorruptio probe, seeking new legislation to curtail the powers of...

Current peace efforts in Africa have failed to address the systemic corruption that fuels conflicts.

Ukraine’s future as an independent and sovereign state will depend on winning its internal war on corruption.

The Trump administration's refusal to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a global effort to clean up the oil, gas, and mining sectors,...

Venezuela’s opposition long struggled to forge a common electoral strategy—only to have Maduro change the rules.

For the first time in Zimbabwe's 37 years of independence, the military has intervened directly in domestic politics against the wishes of the civilian head of...

Is Mohammed bin Salman's purge just for show? Or is it the beginning of a real government cleanup?

The Western business community is optimistic that Xi could begin a push for long-awaited reforms. It shouldn't be.

In a bid to centralize authority and smooth the path for his eventual accession to the throne, MbS has sought to overhaul the organizational structure of his...

Strongman politics alone will not make China great again.

Russia’s officials have chosen to prey upon the state they are supposed to represent.

On Friday, Pakistan's top court disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding any public office after finding him guilty in a massive corruption case.

Federal judge Sergio Moro sentenced former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) to nearly 10 years’ imprisonment for illicit enrichment.

Guo Wengui's allegations have signaled the emergence of a new tool in Chinese politics: weaponized leaks.

More than three years have passed since Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, in which protestors took to the streets and ousted their corrupt leader Viktor Yanukovych....

By all appearances, Russian President Vladimir Putin is at the height of his power. Why then such concern over protests by a political leader who appears to be so...

Lula’s case has raised crucial questions about Brazil’s judicial system: specifically, whether it can give Lula a fair trial and protect the due process rights of...