Interviews
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How Corruption is Becoming America's Operating System
Interview by Lynn Parramore
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The Young Turks Network:
The Damage Report
The real reason for those pardons
Mar 15, 2020
Chayes explains how kleptocratic networks, in all the countries she has examined, make a point of capturing the justice function.
POGO
Corruption as a National Security Issue
Dec 10, 2019
POGO board member and former adviser to the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Sarah Chayes makes the case that corruption is the single largest source of unrest in the world. With this lens, it is possible to better understand many of the hotspots around the world and even colonial America’s revolution. (Podcast)
Morning Edition
Prominent Americans Shouldn't Leverage Their Names For Payoffs
October 3, 2019
The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is drawing attention to the questionable activities of more than one major political family. Sarah Chayes, author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, says this scrutiny is a good thing.
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Faith Radio: Mornings with Carmen
October 29, 2019
Daniel Bennett of the Center for Faith and Flourishing at John Brown University looks at the latest the impeachment front, as well as Trump's judicial picks. Sarah Chayes, author of Thieves of State, examines the reality of political corruption.
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October 11, 2018
Chayes addresses the conundrum facing West Virginians who don't want to vote for a Democrat who is a close collaborator of big pharma and the fossil fuel industry
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Corruption, A Worldwide Epidemic
August, 2018
English language conversation with an independent media talk show in El Salvador
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On Assignment with Richard Engel
Trump Openness To Corruption Mars US Standing
Nov 17, 2017
Chayes, talks with Richard Engel about how Donald Trump's tolerance of corruption in other countries reflects back on the reputation of the United States.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Expert sees risk of corruption in Trump deals
Oct. 20, 2017
Chayes, talks with Maddow about the structure of corruption in some developing nations and why she sees a risk of that kind of corruption spreading to the United States.
Corruption in the Oil Industry
September 8, 2017
Chayes, Steve Coll, and Olarenwaju Suraju discuss how corruption can infect an economy and how civil society and the U.S. government can curb it. (Podcast)
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Chayes and Teachout on Corruption
June 8, 2017
Chayes and Zephyr Teachout discuss corruption and power. (Podcast)
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In a Victory for the Oil Industry, Congress Makes It Easier to Pay Bribes for Drilling Rights
February 3, 2017
Chayes discusses one of the first regulatory rollbacks of the new Administration
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Sarah Chayes on Living in Afghanistan and Sleeping With a Kalashnikov
March 15, 2015
by Tim Lewis
The foreign policy expert and writer on Afghanistan life, western mistakes and sleeping with a Kalashnikov. The central idea of Sarah Chayes’s radical new book, Thieves of State, is that corruption – be it bribes, vote-rigging, embezzlement, nepotism or any of its many forms – unsettles local populations and directly threatens global security.
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
January 29, 2015
"Thieves of State author Sarah Chayes calls corruption one of the greatest security challenges of the 21st century.
Is $20 Billion in Missing Oil Wealth the Explanation for Extremist Group Boko Haram?
March 13, 2014
No one is shocked by allegations of corruption in Nigeria. But the amount of oil wealth that has gone missing is staggering.
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Former Afghanistan Advisor Not Optimistic About Taliban Talks
June 18, 2013
The US is to open direct peace talks with the Taliban after morethan 10 years of war in Afghanistan. Chayes is pessimistic about the prospects.
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Bill Moyers Journal
December 19, 2008
When Sarah Chayes left her job as an NPR reporter to help rebuild Afghanistan, she did so because she believed that Afghanistan had the potential to be a stable, lawful country. Seven years later, as the incoming Obama Administration looks to change course in Afghanistan and send in 20,000 more troops, Chayes joins Bill Moyers to discuss what U.S policy should be in the region.
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