President Yoweri Museveni’s discussion of corruption and its dangers can be eloquent, tough and inspiring. It might lead citizens to believe this is the right man to wipe out corruption from the Republic of Uganda, the pearl of Africa. Not quite. Global Integrity’s Salim R. Biryetega reports from Kampala. Since assuming his current third term…
A slap and a death threat on a public sidewalk; a radio antenna expertly sabotaged; overt warnings that some names must never be mentioned in print. Reporting on corruption in Argentina is dangerous work, and local journalists say it is getting worse. While coming out of a store last December, Argentinian reporter Rigoberto Carrigall was…
While Argentina’s 1999 financial crisis serves as a cautionary tale for the West, our reporter finds that Argentina could review that lesson itself, as the government cranks out bogus inflation numbers and undermines its most effective watchdog agencies. Reporter’s Notebook: Argentina By Pablo Hacker for Global Integrity When Argentines go grocery shopping, we feel deceived…
This week, US Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) calls for the release of Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports to the public. These are taxpayer funded research studies used in Congressional debate. The reports are secret by Congressional tradition because, let’s face it, facts disrupt spin. Our friends at the Project on Government Oversight have the story.…
While Norah covers the the end (maybe) of the Jim Crow era of voter disenfranchisement, I’ll take a look at the fresh new era of voter disenfranchisement: electronic voting machines gone predictably amuck. This week, the State of California completed its investigation into why their electronic voting machines quietly deleted 197 ballots in the November…
More than forty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, can the United States Justice Department trust voting jurisdictions with long histories of discrimination to make their own laws? As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case involving Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, The New Yorker’s Jeffery Toobin discusses the modern…