Corruption

The United Nations and foreign powers claim they are dedicated to building up the Somali National Army. Instead, they have become complicit in its dysfunction.

A journalist’s murder shocked the country in February, but it hasn’t led to a more independent media.

Charges of corruption are toppling leaders at a growing clip. That's a good thing for global politics.

War is politics by other means — and so is the World Cup.

A corruption scandal involving the country’s top club and the national team’s captain has enraged Croatian fans.

With so much political, social, and financial capital invested in its national squad, why can’t Turkey qualify for a World Cup?

Mainstream establishment parties across the continent have been replaced by populists offering easy and empty answers.

The 2017 crisis in Catalonia tore the country apart. The new Spanish prime minister will need to fend off rivals and manage alliances to stay in power long enough to heal the wounds.

The cover-up of the 1MDB affair was taking the country toward autocracy — until the people won the day.

After scrambles, fights, and bribes in Karnataka, the stage is set for a tough 2019 vote.

Autocrats and counterfeit democrats have perfected the art of rigging polls to stay in power — without breaking any laws.

Corruption and incompetence pushed Malaysians to end decades of one-party rule.

Amid a democratic triumph, the new boss is still literally the old boss.

By going to jail, the former president signaled his respect for the rule of law.

The United States should be condemning Ilham Aliyev’s corrupt regime rather than condoning it.

Viktor Orban may have won, but a narrow loss in the countryside suggests that corruption could one day be his undoing.

Russian corruption starts small but quickly spreads.

The EU is undermining its credibility by choosing stability over democracy in Serbia

By condoning corruption and denouncing the press, Slovakia's government created an atmosphere in which journalists became targets.

South Africa's president weathered scandal after scandal while driving his country’s economy and reputation into the ground. His luck has finally run out.