TRANSPARENCY International (TI) defines corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for personal gain.” In the annual Corruption Perceptions Index that TI issued in 2024, the Philippines scored 33 ...

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Mr. Cooney and Ms. Gaston were corruption prosecutors in the District of Columbia U.S. attorney’s Office and in the Justice Department. Last week, President Trump issued yet another pardon that’s ...

A few days ago I called Oleksandr Abakumov, a senior detective at the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine. I wanted to ask him about his investigation into a kickback scheme in his country’s ...

When Donald Trump pardoned U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar earlier this month, he added to a spate of clemencies that has directly attacked a founding principle of America’s democratic republic: the ...

We examine an investigation that is testing Volodymyr Zelensky’s government. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. “Is it possible to become president and not steal?” Volodymyr Zelensky ...