Comey's announcement stunned the country, but it also raises some serious Fourth Amendment questions. By Orin Kerr.

[South Korean] President Park Geun-hye is deep trouble. The stories have been out for a few days now, and even the English-language papers have caught on...

And it's only gotten worse in the age of Citizens United. By Charles P. Pierce.

A STAT investigation shows that Purdue Pharma paid rebates to a pharmacy benefit manager to thwart a West Virginia plan to limit prescriptions of OxyContin. By David Armstrong.

A perfect storm of aging infrastructure, stretched municipal budgets, and changing climate conditions are putting even more of the country’s water systems under pressure. By Renuka Rayasam.

From the so-now-we-know department. By Mike Masnick.

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system. By Matt Stoller.

The revelations keep coming from Wikileaks’ batch of hacked emails from the account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign boss. Here are 11 things we’ve learned.

Japanese fleets have killed more than 300 minke whales in the Southern Ocean despite a court ruling and three-decade-old ban. By Adam Vaughan. (Oct. 20, 2016)

Wikileaks’ latest document dump vindicates Bernie Sanders' critique of Hillary Clinton and the Washington establishment. By Luke Savage.

Why the WikiLeaks revelation about a “pay-to-play” deal with Morocco is a quintessential Clinton controversy. By Russell Berman. (Oct. 22, 2016)

Corruption has a disproportionate effect on the poorest and tackling it requires a co-ordinated, long-term approach across Government, with strong leadership from the top. But the continuing lack of transparency in the UK's Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies risks significantly hindering efforts to curb global corruption and damaging the UK's reputation as a leader on anti-corruption. In their report, Tackling corruption overseas, the International Development Committee addresses the approach of DFID and the wider UK Government to tackling corruption overseas.

James O'Keefe's Project Veritas released four 2016 election-related videos supposedly depicting rampant election fraud and misconduct on the part of Democrats.

Hundreds of British properties suspected of belonging to corrupt politicians, tax evaders and criminals could be seized by enforcement agencies under tough new laws designed to tackle London’s reputation as a haven for dirty money. Huge amounts of corrupt wealth is laundered through the capital’s banks. The National Crime Agency believes up to £100bn of tainted cash could be passing through the UK each year. Much of it ends up in real estate, and in other assets such as luxury cars, art and jewellery.

This unaccountable oligarchy of spies controls the information that guides our military and civilian leaders. By Tim Shorrock. (Sept. 8, 2016)

The progressive firebrand has long warred with SEC Chair Mary Jo White, a former corporate lawyer. By Alexander C. Kaufman, Zach Carter.

Two Chicago police officers uncovered a massive criminal enterprise within the department. Then they were hung out to dry. By Jamie Kalven.

A massive federal racketeering and drug-trafficking case at Maryland's biggest prison offers a glimpse at the deep roots of corruption that criminal justice experts say grips the U.S. corrections system.

The far right has been trying to besmirch Hillary Clinton for more than two decades, and yet after some 20 official investigations, they still have little or nothing to show for it.

The scandal over improper sales practices at Wells Fargo & Co extended to thousands of small-business owners, according to a U.S. lawmaker, raising questions about the scope the bank's issues with unauthorized accounts.