Davids Graebar and Wengrow demonstrate that humans have been reinventing their social and political structures for tens of thousands of years. No need to stop now.

Davids Graebar and Wengrow demonstrate the glorious profusion of ways humans have imagined their social and political structures for tens of thousands of years. No need to stop now.

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With Afghanistan's new rulers finding governing more difficult than insurgency, now is the time to leverage any financial assistance to get them to abide by their own commitments.

The Taliban is tottering; Afghanistan is in chaos. This offers the West unprecedented leverage over a foe it couldn’t beat on the battlefield.

Interview with Sarah Chayes, a leading expert on global and U.S. corruption networks and the links between them and author of “Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, followed by On Corruption in America, and What Is at Stake.”

How do we suppose a ragtag militia lurking in the hills — as we’ve so often heard the Taliban described — managed to execute such a sophisticated campaign plan with no international support?

Neither Biden nor the Attorney General should make this call. An independent task-force should determine whether there are grounds for criminal prosecution.

A magnificent love song to the country of Colombia, told by way of its national river (Book review)

Biden ran on a promise to restore integrity... to Washington. Yet names of prospective nominees suggest he will be drawing from corporate networks that have served their members at the expense of the American public.

Chayes has a new book — ON CORRUPTION IN AMERICA: AND WHAT IS AT STAKE

Author Sarah Chayes has investigated corruption in places like Afghanistan and Nigeria. She wondered if the U.S. was corrupt. NPR's Noel King talks to her about her book: "On Corruption in America."

A splendid book about ... the excessive power of mega-corporations in our society, and how they are turning all of us into their serfs.

The Atlantic: As the country mobilizes to address the pandemic, watch for officials and corporate executives attempting to exploit the crisis to enrich themselves.

Trump’s pardons were shocking to some, but to me they were eerily familiar...

As good as fiction! In more ways than one. (Review of "My Life Undercover." Subscribe to Book Post for the unabridged version.)

Moscow is using the type of tactics I first saw the Taliban master in Afghanistan.

Americans of both parties should stop leveraging their names for payoffs from shady politicians and businessmen -- and the rest of us should stop condoning that business model

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Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire got in over his head on the Ukraine whistleblower complaint.

In the past half decade, uprisings against corruption has broken out worldwide. The frequency and significance of these events forces the question: What is going on? And does this international phenomenon hold lessons for others beset with systemic political corruption, not least in the United States? A look at countries as diverse in culture and political history as Brazil, Burkina Faso, Guatemala, Lebanon, Romania, South Africa, and South Korea suggests that it does.