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Does power corrupt or are corrupt people drawn to power? Are tyrants the products of bad systems or are they just bad people? And why do we give power to awful people?

From left: Andy Kim, Bob Menendez, and Tammy Murphy.

The case arose following plaintiff's arrest, allegedly for telling Justice Kavanaugh's wife that "he might ruin [Justice] Kavanaugh's career and reputation"; but the charges against him were dropped, and he challenged the statute on its face, rather than as applied to his speech.

The movement of monies out of mainland China and into jurisdictions such as Hong Kong and increasingly Singapore – especially since the enactment of the National Security law in Hong Kong – is significant. As an increasingly assertive China has seen an increase in the level of geopolitical tension between itself and Western nations, regulators … Continued

Harvesting Facebook data, directorial diversity, and corrupt intent.

The 2013 bankruptcy filing didn't make the city more prosperous, more functional, or less corrupt.

Dr Ben Noble and Nikolai Petrov write that, much like his life's work, Navalny's death shows the corrupt brutality of Vladimir Putin's Russia.

"Despite strong laws and policies against gender-based violence, activists argue that government policies are ineffective and the justice system is slow and corrupt, leaving many perpetrators unpunished."

With corrupt crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried as its most prominent representative, the Effective Altruism movement is not particularly popularly these days. And some other people associated with the Effective Altruism movement have bizarre and unappealing ideas. More generally, the association of the idea with the Silicon Valley technobro culture we've been discussing here has put […]

A society with credible institutions would allow ordinary citizens to interrogate unexplained wealth. Seeing corrupt public officials placed behind bars provides closure to the story of accountability. But this is not the Philippine society. We turn to myths, urban legends, and rumours to make sense of suspicious situations because we cannot count on our institutions … Continued

Washington, DC – The International Republican Institute (IRI) released the following statement on the second anniversary of Russia's war on Ukraine: "In the two years since Vladimir Putin decided to launch his war of aggression against the people of Ukraine, the world has seen his determination to spread chaos and violence. The corrupt and criminal regime […]
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Twenty years ago, Edward Tufte published The cognitive style of PowerPoint: pitching out corrupts within, an essay that still speaks to many of us who have sat through presentations where bullet points are read aloud to us, one by one by one, and where the speaker feels a need to race through the last two-dozen … Continue reading How PowerPoint (and Other Slide Presentations) Can Inhibit Thinking
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There is a huge demand for forged documents in Uganda from academic documents, bank statements, birth certificates, to identification cards. In the capital Kampala these documents are commonly made on Nasser Road. Kristof Titeca and Yusuf Serunkuma write how in the context where the state, and private institutions are considered widely corrupt the delivery of various services and documents is regarded as indispensable. The power of political posters designed on the road is explored by the authors.
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The unfolding events in Haiti are reminiscent of the American superhero film, "The Dark Knight Rises". The key distinction between the Caribbean country and the final chapter of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy is that, so far, no superhero has emerged. In the film, Bane, Batman's main antagonist, orchestrates chaos and upheaval in the crime-ridden Gotham City by releasing criminals from prison. Portrayed as a symbol of anarchy, Bane exploits societal divisions by mobilizing the disenfranchised against Gotham's corrupt social order. Meanwhile, Batman, depicted as the "Dark Knight", emerges as a beacon of hope and justice, collaborating with Gotham City's remaining police force to resist the Super-Villain Bane's destructive agenda and restore stability to the city. Haiti's Gang Insurrection Today, Haiti's ...

When it comes to our federal bureaucracy, there are two schools of thought. One says that an insulated group of career bureaucrats have created a deep state that corrupts the performance of government. The other says that our bureaucracy is dysfunctional because there is too much turnover or positions left vacant. Both rest on an underlying feature of our democracy: many of the positions in the federal bureaucracy are appointed by the President and approved by Congress. But, could having less politically selected appointments give us a more functional government?

In this episode, we're doing things a bit different. The Center for Effective Government at the University of Chicago, headed by our very own William Howell, has developed a series of primers that each focus on the available scholarship about the pros and cons of a particular governmental reform. Each primer is written by a scholar who has also done research in that area. On this episode, we speak with David Lewis from Vanderbilt University who wrote a primer on this question: should we have more politically appointed bureaucrats or less?