Scandal after scandal” involving political allies and relatives of Sánchez have left him “on the ropes”, said the outlet. What are the scandals? An investigating judge h ...

Year after year, Transparency International’s findings show that corruption continues to flourish across the globe, despite rhetoric and promises. Africa is no exception – on the contrary. In the 2025 ...

Corruption is one of the most important—and misunderstood—concepts in contemporary American politics. Some examples are unambiguous: for instance, New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez taking gold bars from ...

Americans like to tell a familiar story about the last 40 years. It goes like this: In 1980, neoliberals took over. Markets were unleashed. Government shrank. Deregulation ran wild. Greed, inequality, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Democracies’ anti-corruption efforts are flagging, with global corruption perception indexes hitting their lowest ...

When corruption becomes endemic, democracy dies from the inside out. The Trump family’s grift is teaching America’s elites that power can be bought, just as it is in Putin’s Russia and Orbán’s Hungary ...

The Trump administration has gutted the federal government’s ability to fight public corruption in a matter of weeks. Since Inauguration Day, the Justice Department has paused all investigations into ...

Across countries in the Amazon Basin corruption remains a deeply entrenched phenomenon as society has a higher tolerance of fraudulent behavior. Corruption encompasses many types of behavior, which ...

Corruption, it turns out, can be stubbornly resistant to "best practices." A few examples illustrate this "whack-a-mole" dynamic. Medical personnel in Ugandan hospitals began to solicit "gifts" and ...

Berlin, 10 February 2026 – Corruption is worsening globally, with even established democracies experiencing rising corruption amid a decline in leadership, according to Transparency International’s ...

In 2020-2023, the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) project supported a range of global pilots to test ...