Corruption

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a political magician who has run out of tricks—and his stubbornness is stopping the Israeli right from winning convincingly and governing the country.

Changing Ukraine is much harder than its president thought. Here is how Zelensky should reboot his presidency and secure his place in history.

Nissan just filed a lawsuit against its former CEO. Here’s why—and what could happen next.

Despite calls for transparency, repression is baked into the system.

Tehran has long sought to throw its weight around across the region. Now the Islamic Republic is facing a backlash in Iraq, Lebanon, and at home.

If Trump wants to fight corruption in Ukraine, he should pay close attention to an ongoing dispute between the country and the IMF over one of its biggest banks.

Explaining every political crisis in a former Soviet country as a tug of war between East and West misses the point. The problem is a system of nepotism, patronage, and entrenched corruption.

Far from drowning in graft, the country’s record is getting better and better.

The protests combine political and economic grievances and could bring down the country’s sect-based political order.

Mass protests could put an end to the ethnic clientelism that has empowered corrupt leaders. But demonstrators must stand their ground or risk being co-opted like those who rose up in 2005.

Despite Hariri’s resignation, public anger won’t be easy to soothe.

Enlisting Beijing to interfere in the U.S. election is no joke.

The U.S. president has imported prodazhnist’, Ukraine’s distinctive culture of crookedness, where everyone has a price and politics has no value.

The European Union and United States need a joint front against poisonous kleptocracy.

The United States faces charges of double standards in its campaign to promote whistleblower protections at the U.N. and international organizations.

The country’s government is rolling back wildlife protections and endangering media freedom and the rule of law.

In the largest student uprising in decades, former supporters of the president are now questioning his commitment to reform.

Zelensky can walk away from the Trump scandal stronger. Here’s how.

Numerous banks and multinationals have hands in shady deals with the new nation’s elites and warlords.

Whistleblowers and experts allege corruption at a United Nations Development Program project for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Russia, according to a Foreign Policy investigation.