The rights activists who was a recipient of “Defender of Democracy” award at the event, flayed what he described as political corruption, which according to him, undermines democratic principles.

Plunkitt was responding to The Shame of the Cities, a book by journalist Lincoln Steffens that exposed sweeping political corruption in U.S. cities. The ward boss’s shameless defense of ...

Panaji: Allegations of corruption levelled by former BJP MLA and minister Pandurang Madkaikar against BJP-led govt sparked a political debate, with opposition parties demanding a thorough ...

Kevin Mohatt/Reuters, FILES "If Democrats want to rebuild, start with anti-political corruption," Khanna stressed, adding he has received a positive reception from a range of people such as ...

Chatfield’s attorney claims the payments were reimbursements for political fundraising expenses ... the Chatfield and Kwame Kilpatrick public corruption cases, how Nessel's team may come to ...

The Communist Party’s personnel chief in the northern Chinese port of Tianjin is facing a corruption investigation ... the national legislature and top political advisory body – an event ...

Both say they are opposed to corruption. But according to critics like political scientist Kwame Ninsin, they in effect take turns at the helm to “control the state for private accumulation”.

A judge has dismissed indictments against New Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross and his five co-defendants, potentially ending a case that rocked New Jersey politics and boosted the ...

The stunning indictment last year against one of the most powerful political figures in New Jersey was thrown out of court Wednesday in an equally startling decision by a judge who found no crime ...

he Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the only de facto opposition party, is gearing up ahead of the corruption trial ... national legal affairs and politics, Kompas.id reported.

Justice Department officials then tried to move the Adams case to the Public Integrity Section, which is principally responsible for prosecuting public corruption cases. That didn’t work ...

In addition to inviting corruption, money in politics subverts our representative democracy by forcing elected officials to serve two masters: their constituents and their donors. The interests of ...