Corruption (Institutional)
United Auto Workers Seek to Shed a Legacy of Corruption
DETROIT — For the United Auto Workers, the last five years have been one of the most troubling chapters in the union’s storied history. A federal investigation found widespread corruption, with a dozen senior officials, including two former presidents, convicted of embezzling more than $1 million in union funds for luxury travel and other lavish […]
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South Africa’s Corruption Inquiry Leaves Few of the Nation’s Powerful Unscathed
JOHANNESBURG — The final findings of a three-year inquiry into deep-rooted corruption in South Africa were released Wednesday, part of a roughly 5,000-page report that heavily implicated the country’s former president, Jacob Zuma, but also found fault with how current President Cyril Ramaphosa handled allegations of misconduct. South Africa’s chief justice, Raymond Zondo, who led […]
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In South Africa’s Farmgate Scandal, a Theft and Then a Silence
WINDHOEK, Namibia — Namibian investigators were hot on the trail of the suspected burglars. After receiving a tip about a sensational heist — the theft of cash from a farm belonging to President Cyril Ramaphosa of neighboring South Africa — they had traced large money transfers that the suspects made from South African to Namibian […]
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For South Africa’s Leader, Being a Burglary Victim Spells Trouble
CAPE TOWN — The burglars cut through a wire fence around the sprawling property, crept up to a stone farmhouse, climbed through a window and rifled through the furniture until they found their bounty: a fortune in U.S. dollars, in cash, said to be in the millions. The farm’s owner was Cyril Ramaphosa, president of […]
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How Much Haiti’s Freedom Cost: Takeaways From a Times Series
The U.S. Treated Haiti Like a Cash Register When the American military invaded Haiti in the summer of 1915, the official explanation was that Haiti was too poor and too unstable to be left to its own devices. Secretary of State Robert Lansing made little effort to mask his contempt for the “African race,” casting […]
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Supreme Court Rules for Ted Cruz in Campaign Finance Case
The chief justice wrote that loans played a special role for candidates challenging incumbents. “As a practical matter, personal loans will sometimes be the only way for an unknown challenger with limited connections to front-load campaign spending,” he wrote. “And early spending — and thus early expression — is critical to a newcomer’s success. A […]
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After Lebanon’s Collapse, Can an Election Fix the Country?
BEIRUT, Lebanon — After years abroad working as a school administrator, Anahid Jobanian returned to Lebanon to live off her savings for a simple retirement. But that plan fell apart as the country collapsed. Lebanon’s banks imploded, wiping out her savings. Prices for nearly everything soared, leaving her struggling to afford her heart and diabetes […]
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The Man Who Could Ruin the Philippines Forever
In other ways, too, Mr. Duterte is responsible for normalizing authoritarianism, which may be yet another thing Mr. Marcos effortlessly inherits. One of Mr. Duterte’s first actions as president in 2016 was to transfer the elder Mr. Marcos’s preserved corpse from the family’s refrigerated mausoleum for burial in our national cemetery of heroes. And Mr. […]
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A Boston Consulting Firm Became a Power Broker, and Then a Pariah, in South Africa
“I am concerned that we are trading off short term access for long term issues,” Ms. Miller wrote in an internal email in 2014. She wrote that Bain was trying to recover its reputation after the presidential election in 2012, when the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, was criticized for his work at the consulting firm. […]
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