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Letters & Politics Winter Book Collection Includes: Heretic by Catherine Nixey The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone The Rise of Athens by Anthony Everitt Emperor of Rome by … Continued ...

Bob Woodson is founder and president of the Woodson Center. Eliminate professional politicians from using public office as careers by dramatically reducing the salaries and benefits of all elected ...

Political questions rarely have easy answers. Even when we agree that a particular goal is desirable—end corruption, for example—we often disagree over the appropriate means to that end. Here I ...

We should see corruption as a ‘mechanism of class formation’ and not confine ourselves to regarding it as a moral or criminal issue. 2. This class formation has given rise to a pervasive informal ...

In today’s edition … Democratic-aligned group launches ad encouraging GOP senators to defend Medicaid ... Former education secretaries are skeptical the Education Department is going anywhere ...

The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action, controversy-bedeviled “Snow White” opened in theaters with a sleepy $43 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday On a night when half ...

Corruption is believed to be a major factor impeding economic development, but the importance of legal enforcement versus cultural norms in controlling corruption is poorly understood. To disentangle ...

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An independent commission says the facility can still be shuttered despite a jail population that exceeds the capacity of planned replacement jails.

April 11, 2024, Audio: "Even optimal economic policies create winners and losers, and that’s where politics steps in. Trade liberalization is an example of a policy that can make a country better off ...

POLITICO’s weekly political series lifts the curtain on how Westminster really works, offering in-depth insight into the political issues which typically only get broad-brush treatment in the wider ...