President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. came under growing pressure during the course of the year but has managed to survive – at ...

The Trump administration’s cartoonish graft presents a unique opportunity for a populist anti-corruption platform. But for the Democrats to pull it off, they’d have to repudiate corruption within ...

Filipinos have been protesting against the theft of public funds for flood defenses by corrupt politicians. The protesters face a political class whose leading figures, President Bongbong Marcos and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam writes about state and local policy and urban economic issues. Jul 25, 2025, 11:46am EDT Young woman holding a poster against ...

Graft and elite capture are choking Pakistan’s growth and only civic renewal with real reform of taxes, procurement, SOEs and ...

Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., is taking an axe to the New Jersey Democratic Party’s political "machine," vowing to support a primary challenge against longtime New Jersey state Sen. James Beach and any ...

When it comes to Eric Adams and the company he keeps, there are no real surprises anymore. So when Winnie Greco, a longtime Adams ally, apparently tries to bribe a local reporter—handing her a wad of ...

Whether he is launching cryptocurrency schemes or accepting a Qatari jumbo jet or issuing pardons for the relatives of major donors, Donald Trump has drawn frequent accusations of corruption in the ...

On Wednesday afternoon, HuffPost ran a story about a woman named Erica Vladimer, who accused New York state Senator Jeff Klein of having once “shoved his tongue” down her throat at a bar. Vladimer, a ...

Massive protests were held on September 21 in Metro Manila and other major cities across the Philippines, denouncing large-scale corruption involving top officials in charge of the government’s ...

Corruption constitutes a multifaceted socio-political issue that significantly impacts the political, economic, and social dimensions of society. Its emergence is rooted in the distortion of ...

President Lee’s move comes as a widening Unification Church bribery scandal implicates lawmakers from both major parties.