
Articles and Op Eds
Sarah Chayes on "The Dawn of Everything"
Jul 12, 2022
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.
Sarah Chayes on "The Dawn of Everything"
Jul 12, 2022
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.
Sarah Chayes on "The Dawn of Everything"
Jul 12, 2022
The Taliban is Vulnerable. Here's How to Seize the Moment
Nov 13, 2021
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.
Opinion | The Taliban Is Vulnerable. Here’s How to Seize the Moment
Nov 13, 2021
The Taliban is tottering; Afghanistan is in chaos. This offers the West unprecedented leverage over a foe it couldn’t beat on the battlefield.
Trudy Rubin: Pandora Papers focus on corruption abroad, but what about thieving here?
Oct 7, 2021
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.”
The Taliban Seizure of Afghanistan was long -- and invisible -- in the making
Aug 16, 2021
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?
Impeachment or Not, Justice Department Must Investigate Trump
Jan 13, 2021
Neither Biden nor the Attorney General should make this call. An independent task-force should determine whether there are grounds for criminal prosecution.
Sarah Chayes on Wade Davis
Dec 1, 2020
A magnificent love song to the country of Colombia, told by way of its national river (Book review)
Why Biden Should Look Beyond the Usual Pool for His Cabinet Appointments
Nov 20, 2020
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.

Corruption at the Core: Bill Moyers talks with Sarah Chayes
Sep 22, 2020
Chayes has a new book — ON CORRUPTION IN AMERICA: AND WHAT IS AT STAKE
Sarah Chayes' New Book Examines 'Corruption In America'
Aug 11, 2020
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."
Sarah Chayes on Zephyr Teachout
Jul 28, 2020
A splendid book about ... the excessive power of mega-corporations in our society, and how they are turning all of us into their serfs.
Look Out, Corruption Ahead
Apr 17, 2020
The Atlantic: As the country mobilizes to address the pandemic, watch for officials and corporate executives attempting to exploit the crisis to enrich themselves.
This Is How Kleptocracies Work
Feb 23, 2020
Trump’s pardons were shocking to some, but to me they were eerily familiar...
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Sarah Chayes on Amaryllis Fox
Jan 31, 2020
As good as fiction! In more ways than one. (Review of "My Life Undercover." Subscribe to Book Post for the unabridged version.)
Russia Is Waging Asymmetric Warfare Against the US — And We’re Letting Them Win
Dec 18, 2019
Moscow is using the type of tactics I first saw the Taliban master in Afghanistan.
Hunter Biden's Legal, Socially Acceptable Corruption
Sep 27, 2019
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
Acting DNI Shows Why Generals and Admirals Should Not Become Top Civilians
Sep 27, 2019
Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire got in over his head on the Ukraine whistleblower complaint.
Fighting the Hydra: Lessons From Worldwide Protests Against Corruption
Apr 12, 2018
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.