Corruption — the misuse of publicly entrusted power for private gain — is a recurrent feature of societies around the world. Though countries vary in the level of corruption, none has succeeded in ...

The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures views of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople.

The Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 ranks 182 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Find out the scores and read our analysis.

Every other Tuesday, the team behind Civics 101 joins NHPR’s All Things Considered to talk about how our democratic institutions actually work. This week, Civics 101 host Hannah McCarthy spoke with ...

Corruption sabotages sustainable development. For decades, we have seen corruption drain critical resources from fragile states, impede the response to health crises and undermine social protection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that the purpose of the law dismantling Ukraine's anti-corruption infrastructure was to ...

On the eve of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection’s (CCDI) Fifth Plenum on January 12, CCTV ran a nationally-televised documentary on anti-corruption. In the video, China’s former ...

The long-running feud between the U.S. and China is showing signs of easing, according to Gary Gao, a senior partner at China-based Zhong Lun Law Firm. Speaking at a panel session on Tuesday at GIR ...

Jacob Lewis receives funding from the Department of Defense, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Anti-Defamation League, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He consults with the ...