Theologians justified the presence of corruption as a means by which men strove, were tested, and triumphed. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

This praise didn’t help when the two men went too far by putting on a play, The Cradle Will Rock, about labor strikes and corporate corruption. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Shin did not yet know this, but grassroots capitalism, vagabond trading, and rampant corruption were creating cracks in the police state that surrounded Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Men lost were no longer counted by the thousands but by the hundred thousands; there had been blundering, betrayal, and corruption during the entire progress of the war. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the end of corruption! This is what we have needed to happen since that general strike,” one guest said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Above it floated a human heart, swollen and blue with corruption, yet still alive. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The leaves were crusted with blood and pus, Drogo's breast black and glistening with corruption. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term, but the Green Movement exposed corruption—and dissension—within the regime. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this parody; he examined the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colors of corruption. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now, I’m standing here, and I’m thinking about it...A reliable, hardworking, honest, Southern Democrat versus corruption, and maliciousness, and hate. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tata Ndu came here personally to tell us that the gods of his village did not take kindly to the minister of corruption. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dinath regaled me with tales of financial shenanigans and corruption among cabinet ministers, which I found fascinating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These occasional media storms offer one more chance to measure possible corruption in sumo. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I loved to read, probably the result of the unique education I received from the Coalwood School teachers known as the “Great Six,” a corruption of the phrase “grades one through six.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We must stay to watch the corruption. It’s already beginning to set in.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Civil service reform in the late nineteenth century reduced patronage and corruption and introduced a merit system that allowed blacks to get a foot in the door. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

If she had really craved safety from Erudite’s growing corruption, she could have gone to Amity or Candor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Myers told us that her murder had everything to do with drug debts and threats she had made to expose corruption. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hoover had already assigned White to investigate one of the first law-enforcement corruption cases to be pursued in the wake of Teapot Dome. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Racial purity, political purity—Bastian speaks to a horror of any sort of corruption, and yet, Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn’t life a kind of corruption? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

One government worker in the Mexican state of Tabasco, who in 1999 denounced corruption by certain judicial police agents, was dead a few days later in a mysterious car accident. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was a body still, and not a skeleton, because the witch had laid a spell to preserve him from corruption. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ancient tyrant Mezentius of Etruria, punishing his enemies, bound each living prisoner to a corpse and left them thus, shackled face to face, until the corruption of the dead involved the living. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

First, tracks had to use the pari-mutuel wagering machine instead of the bookmakers whose corruption had prompted the betting ban. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here were women, all of them under thirty and some as young as sixteen, who were building nonprofits, training other women to be entrepreneurs, and risking imprisonment to report on government corruption. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The name Gilbreth, in the case of Dad’s family, was a fairly recent corruption of Galbraith. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet White knew that America’s judicial institutions, like its policing agencies, were permeated with corruption. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Many Osage had come to believe that local authorities were colluding with the killers and that only an outside force like Davis could cut through the corruption and solve the growing number of cases. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Opposing them were the Half-Breeds, who considered Grant a losing candidate because many voters had become disgusted by the scandals and corruption during his time in office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

More important, the ad’s use of like with a clause was not a recent corruption. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was for all of this that she was paying now, and it was this pride, hatred, bitterness, lust—this folly, this corruption—of which her son was heir. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It depicts the American Revolutionas a liberation movement, a clean break not just from English domination but also from the historic corruptions of European monarchy and aristocracy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Cobbett was an Englishman who had been driven from his homeland because of his attacks on corruption in the English army. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

We heard news — which word could not but quicken the blood—of common men rising in the thousands to empty the rural law courts of corruption and expel the un-elected favorites of government. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

With the growing corruption of Adarlan and the king’s campaign to hunt them down and execute them, the faeries and Fae fled, seeking shelter in the wild, untouched places of the world. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It must be aware of the Scythedom’s petty bickering, and growing corruption, even though it has pledged noninterference. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The corruption narrative that he seemed intent to expose was harder to assess. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The circle was thought to be a “perfect” geometrical shape and the planets, placed high in the heavens, away from earthly “corruption,” were also thought to be in some mystical sense “perfect.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were some cases of corruption that could only be regarded as humorous. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The previous warden had left after a corruption scandal, and such was Osborne’s renown that the Republican governor was willing to give him a try. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt quickly established himself as a leader, making newspaper headlines and earning respect for fighting corruption in the state government. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s one of those stories of corruption and scandal.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sealed away on the pig farm, Shin heard nothing about the street trading, corruption, and extralegal intercity travel that would—in less than two years' time—help him escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The change helped insulate agents from local corruption and created a truly national force, yet it also ignored regional difference and had the dehumanizing effect of constantly uprooting employees. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Through corruption,” he said, “you shall be healed.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ice had formed in its shaggy grey fur, and the faint smell of corruption clung to it like a woman's perfume. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The Threepenny Opera wasn’t intended just as escapist fun in hard times, but also as a piece of biting Marxist satire critiquing the corruption of capitalism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mom was skilled at charming her way around corruption, which had helped her cut through the endless red tape it took to get the sanctuary off the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I put a spell on his body to preserve it from corruption,” she told him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He constantly attracted suspicion for his corruption and for his unorthodox treatment of Jews. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

There was something venal about his thin-lipped face; he had the air of a man to whom corruption was familiar. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Knobbed and pitted with corruption was her age-old hide, but ever thickened from within with layer on layer of evil growth. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He also decoded telegrams that exposed corruption in President Warren G. Harding's cabinet in 1924. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He could smell the hot breath of the beasts behind him, a stink of brimstone and corruption. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was the source of trouble and corruption, and should be avoided at all costs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more White investigated the flow of oil money from Osage headrights, the more he found layer upon layer of corruption. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By the 1930s, however, utility holding companies came to symbolize the corporate corruption and greed that the average American saw as the root cause of the Great Depression. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He made accusations of official corruption, talked about his involvement in the Pittman murder, and revealed his earlier attempts to recant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In fact, the word algorithm was a corruption of al-Khowarizmi’s name. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Only the murderous bloom inside his body, only the corruption it brings to every cell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nor can you understand the complexities of computing—the nature of algorithms, or the storage or corruption of data—without comprehending the structural anatomy of digitized information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sublunary world, the world this side of the moon, is the world of generation and corruption—the rest of the universe has existed unchanging from all eternity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sitting on his left shoulder were blue- black crows feasting on his corruption. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It condemned the corruption of the modern industrial world. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“There’s corruption everywhere, Thorn,” Seven said, still upset herself. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It appeared to be a civil, solitary form of corruption. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled not slime and corruption, but good, clean air scented by creosote. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can I begin to describe the complexities of life here in a country whose leadership sets the standard for absolute corruption? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dear countrymen, the aim of the Revolutionary Council is to establish a nation free from corruption and internal strife. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Given that corruption seemed to permeate every institution in Osage County, these sources might be intentionally spreading disinformation in order to conceal the real plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Garfield wanted to reduce the corruption surrounding the Customs House, and he didn't like Conkling pushing him around. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A military junta had filled the vacuum of power, and the corruption and cruelty were as bad as ever. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Castro had no choice but to have the government take over many of the businesses so that there wouldn’t be so much corruption. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

No matter where he walked, shadows hid his face, and scorpions that stung him died of the corruption they had touched. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He also felt that crime and corruption was rising in Manila and even in Baguio, and although he enjoyed living there, he was uncertain about gaining, or even wanting, asylum. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The unrighteous speak evil of things they understand not and shall perish in their own corruption!” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Poverty and corruption were everywhere in Haiti, and the doctor had always been vocal about it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Multiply these daily frustrations by a few billion, and you begin to see that the curse of knowledge is a pervasive drag on the strivings of humanity, on a par with corruption, disease, and entropy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I sometimes wonder how much irrationality in the world has been excused by the nonsensical saying “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” a corruption of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s remark about “a foolish consistency.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The harpy shook her wings wide, and the travelers nearly fainted from the hideous smells of corruption and decay that wafted from her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It might have looked beautiful, had she not known what corruption and filth dwelt within it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Back then, more than five years earlier, the capital city was mired in corruption, with crumbling roads and buildings, slums in the middle of the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The Angkar wants to rid Democratic Kampuchea of other races, deemed the source of evil, corruption, and poison, so that people of the true Khmer heritage can rise to power again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was discovered missing at 5:35 a.m. when the police raided his house in connection with a corruption investigation. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Suffragists saw the vote as a way they could make the world a better place by using it to increase wages, eliminate child labor, and reduce government corruption. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption--and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them goodbye. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As part of this effort, White was asked by the Justice Department to investigate corruption during the first Hale trial. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

All sorts of people were contacting us with wide-ranging claims of corruption and misconduct. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She watched them clean and gut it and build a cookfire on the far side of the stream, and the smell of cooking meat mingled queerly with the stench of corruption. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“If you speak out too much against police corruption, you wake up with a machete in your back,” says Father Rigoni. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

No, not a man, but a corruption of one. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"I saw the queues, the shortages, the filthiness of public lavatories, the bureaucracy, the corruption, the red tape, the rudeness of officials, the impossibility of obtaining redress when one had a complaint," he remembered. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Why, for so many years, were conductors so oblivious to the corruption of their snap judgments? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Second, there is the Hamiltonian confidence that the concentration of political and economic power was a dynamic force; it was not a threatening cluster of invasive corruption, but a synergistic fusion of developmental energies. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

One of New York State’s biggest recent scandals has been the exposure of wholesale S.L.A. graft and corruption. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for the senior prom, I had about as much chance of getting a date as Dad did of ending corruption in the unions. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You must follow all the rules set for you by the Angkar. This way, we will never have to deal with the crimes and corruption of the city people.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only are corruption and violence employed to keep the populace in line; so too are the self-deceptions of the Russians themselves, who are manipulated through an ideological pastiche of nationalist, religious and cultural values. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Martinelli is in a federal detention center in Florida after his conviction on corruption charges. The ongoing saga of the mysterious Madame Giselle 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

They tackle race, class, crime, corruption and the political elite. South Africa's new comedians find a nation eager for laughs 2013-01-04T13:02:55Z

Its score evoked a time when political corruption was rife. Sheldon Harnick, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Lyricist, Dies at 99 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

It is a vivid and emetic portrait of rural change and urban corruption. Snoo Wilson obituary 2013-07-05T17:57:52Z

Given that this episode contains the roots of the corruption of the Shah's regime, Iran's colonisation by America in all but name, and ultimately the roots of the revolution itself, it is vital reading. Kamin Mohammadi's top 10 Iranian books 2011-07-20T11:07:13Z

His "With a Light Touch" columns were hugely popular for their sharp satire of the absurdities of corruption and abuse of power and privilege. Adam Lusekelo obituary 2011-04-12T17:17:07Z

Rocha’s hectic drama is, in effect, a political Western that rages at Brazil’s governmental corruption and plutocratic oppression but also despairs of demagogic remedies. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

Seattle did not evolve from “some city they still think rhymes with beetle” into a red-hot center of progress and opportunity without an element of sub rosa corruption. Books of The Times: ?Truth Like the Sun,? by Jim Lynch 2012-04-08T22:00:45Z

Mr. Padilha was intent on addressing those objections in the sequel, 2010’s “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within,” which is more comprehensively bleak about the spread of corruption, to which even B.O.P.E. is not immune. 'Narcos' Episode 2 Recap: Death to Kidnappers 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Thomazeau’s noir novels take inspiration from the city’s perpetual state of transition and the dark undercurrents — a powerful mafia, municipal corruption, crooked cops and petty thieves — that have given the city a less-than-stellar reputation. Two French Cities, Neither of Them Paris. Which One to Love? 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Scorsese, 71, received his 11th nomination for the real-life tale of financial greed "The Wolf of Wall Street," and Russell, 55, earned his second nomination for 1970s corruption caper "American Hustle." Scorsese scores 11th Directors Guild nod, McQueen nabs first 2014-01-08T11:00:31Z

Asked if his job was imperiled after two protests outside his office this week, in which archeology graduates demanded jobs, accused his department of corruption, and called for his resignation, Mr. Hawass responded angrily. ArtsBeat: Egypt's Antiquities Minister Says Valuable Statue Found 2011-02-17T10:00:21Z

Greed and corruption are woven through this riveting and complex documentary by Gemma Atwal. Ten of the best running documentaries 2013-03-01T07:53:41Z

He has watched from a distance as friends and family share news of bomb attacks, mass unemployment and corruption scandals. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Award-winning reporting followed, including the Intercept’s much-lauded series about the U.S. military’s drone assassination program and an investigation of corruption within the Chicago police force. Glenn Greenwald may have quit the Intercept, but he can’t quit the feud 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Which brings us to United Passions, last year’s critically reviled paean to Fifa – “A disgrace ... excrement,” said the Guardian – in which Roth played Sepp Blatter, since ousted in a corruption scandal. Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

On the question of corruption, Ogun argued that corruption is universal, but the real problem lay in the governance structure being so large. Nigeria: Africa's superpower? 2010-06-10T11:00:00Z

Reeves' Batverse begins with a commentary on government corruption and an indictment of the rich, powerful and ineffective. Rating the Batman’s Riddler: Did Paul Dano surpass what’s been done? 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

Greenberg’s findings were intriguing, and they suggested that the next generation of Americans are itching to shake up an economic and political system they associate with corruption, inequality and stagnation. “Something bold needs to happen”: An in-depth look at millennial America 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

Although a revealing tale of corruption, the book is significantly burdened by several flaws. 'The Fall of the House of Zeus': Portrayal of lawyer's fall not a pretty picture 2011-01-06T00:11:06Z

Against a backdrop of the Aids epidemic and a recommendation to fight police corruption from a royal commission into the state’s police service, sex workers succeeded in lobbying the government for change. The future of sex work – a photo essay 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

In her studio, there are posters calling for Trump’s immediate impeachment and decrying the corruption of power in Washington D.C. interspersed with preparatory sketches of models, cheery found photos and colorful to-do lists. In the Studio With an Artist Who Paints in a ‘Color Trance’ 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Phillips’s explanation of the mechanics of match fixing is consistent with other accounts of corruption within the sport. Weekend Reading: Umpires in Prayer, A Botanical Battle, and More 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

Suárez started delivering biting social commentary on poverty, corruption and decaying values in the 1970s and 80s, before it was popular or easy to do so under Mexico’s authoritarian governments. Biting Mexican comic, satirist Héctor Suárez dies at 81 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The mayor wants to take away Frank’s poker room and doesn’t care about Frank’s lost money or the fact that the murder investigation is metastasizing into an inquiry into his city’s profound corruption. 'True Detective' Recap: Big Blasts and Diminished Men 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

“Collards is a corruption of colewort — colewort is any non-heading cabbage,” said Dr. Harris, the author of “High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey From Africa to America.” Tracing the Origins of a Black American New Year’s Ritual 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

In his homily, Francis, wearing white vestments, said Christmas is a time to remember that God's message of peace "is stronger than darkness and corruption" Pope, on Christmas Eve, urges world to be open to God 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

While Charlie’s mounting heap of secrets drives a wedge between him and his very pregnant wife, Margaret, he gets a rapid education in Washington corruption. Jake Tapper’s ‘Hellfire Club’ Takes Us Back to McCarthy-Era America 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z

Rod Blagojevich declined Monday night to promise to testify if he is retried on corruption charges. Blagojevich appears on Jon Stewart's show 2010-08-24T11:07:00Z

But it is also highly segregated, racist and an example of the widening chasm between rich and poor, exacerbated by political corruption that's hastening gentrification and pushing long-term residents out of its heart. "City So Real" is the must-watch series about Chicago in all of its separate and unequal glory 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

He writes about drugs in Tepito, a notoriously dangerous neighborhood, rampant government corruption and a culture of impunity. Review: ‘The Interior Circuit’ by Francisco Goldman

Mark, a local boy, wears the cynicism of a someone steeped in the town's crime and corruption. Movie review of Texas Killing Fields 2011-10-14T14:25:00Z

The megachurch deaconess Sister Myotis — who became a YouTube star with her video on the thong as “a weapon of mass corruption” — arrives in New York this week to spread her Southern-baked gospel. The Week Ahead: June 6 ? 12 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z

You know, the one where Cranston plays an ethically upstanding man pressed to protect his family, sliding deeper into a morass of corruption with each step he takes. Bryan Cranston is breaking bad in familiar ways for Showtime's dark thriller "Your Honor" 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z

There has always been corruption in American business, but what has changed is that the new class of rich has become untethered to normal people. Film: Client 9 and Other Interested Parties 2010-10-23T02:33:00Z

Hughie soon discovers the job isn’t what he thought it would be, and the challenges are more than bureaucratic: There’s corruption on this path as well. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z

Cellini, above, was convicted in November on two counts of corruption. Cellini judge to rule on juror 2012-01-21T04:03:00Z

In sober, restrained language, he exposes the full gravity of corruption in China. To have and to hold 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

In that brilliant critique, Orwell casts the blame for political corruption widely, and he insists that we all bear a responsibility to resist it by thinking and especially by writing more clearly. Why Orwell’s ‘1984’ matters so much now 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Ms. Carbone also quotes writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis and Sherwood Anderson, who were all deeply preoccupied with the tensions between repression and liberation, corruption and idealism. Art Review: ?Youth and Beauty? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-11-03T14:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Illinois logged 1,828 public corruption convictions, the third most of any state, according to the report. Chicago area tops in public corruption: study 2012-02-15T15:31:00Z

Hastings, a British journalist and military historian who reported on the war, chronicles the conflict and its staggering destruction, excoriating both sides for corruption and inhumanity. New in Paperback: ‘Vietnam’ and ‘Upstream’ 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Yasser Arafat fares worse, not least over corruption. Decision Points by George W Bush ? review 2010-11-19T10:09:00Z

The levels of police corruption and press intrusion were on a different scale, a point Lord Justice Leveson might care to reflect on. An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-14T09:00:01Z

In the process, Colonna gets pulled into a world of corruption and conspiracy theories, including a plot involving the C.I.A. and the corpse of Mussolini’s body double. New Umberto Eco Novel, 'Numero Zero,' Coming This Fall 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Even so, slow procurement procedures and corruption scandals mean its army, the world's second biggest, relies on critically outdated guns and suffers ammunition shortages. India tests nuclear-capable missile that can reach China 2012-04-19T09:16:00Z

That began a decade marked by corruption and human rights abuses. Mario Vargas Llosa on Love, Spectacle and Becoming a Legend 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

In “Go Set a Watchman,” however, this is not a marker of his moral dependability, but rather of his moral corruption. Review: Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' reveals a darker side of Maycomb 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

The members of the Child Protection Unit must also contend with bureaucratic intransigence, petty corruption and perpetual competition for scarce resources. Movie Review: ?Polisse,? Directed by and Starring Ma?wenn 2012-05-17T22:54:42Z

James's blindness to Villiers's corruption and incompetence put the country in danger. 11 of the most influential royal lovers in British history 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z

It has an umbrella -- the story of Alicia putting her life back together after her husband's disgrace in a corruption and infidelity scandal, then reluctantly getting involved in his bid for re-election. The subtle, dynamic brilliance of "The Good Wife" 2011-02-15T15:01:00Z

The corruption of the investigation and the ensuing trial was considered so dire that Spain and the United Nations Human Rights Committee agreed to take action. Movie Review: ‘Give Up Tomorrow,’ Directed by Michael Collins 2012-09-30T21:13:58Z

Baldacci is a master when it comes to writing about small-town conspiracies and a lone hero who fights against all odds to clean up corruption. Review: Baldacci back with `Forgotten' thriller 2012-11-19T19:34:09Z

The theme develops with the corruption of adolescents by powerful adult organisations, namely religion, big business, the media and the military. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

The man who so eloquently chronicled the corruption of the Clinton administration became the shill of his successor. What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything 2013-12-07T12:30:00Z

Despite decades of repeated reforms, federal police officials keep finding their officers, and sometimes even themselves, accused of brutality or corruption. New TV soap scrubs image of Mexican federal police 2011-06-16T18:25:08Z

But for Moss, the continent’s notorious corruption and new terrorist scourge is just one side of the story. A thriller writer’s challenge: Make U.S. policy in Africa into a page turner

Mr Stephenson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the themes of police corruption and community in such dramas are becoming just as important as the "whodunnit" element. AUDIO: Modern dramas 'reinvent' old formula 2014-03-20T11:22:58Z

Kardashian West found an ally in the White House through Kushner, whose own father was incarcerated for 14 months for corruption charges. Kim Kardashian to visit White House to discuss prison reform 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s a depressing film, deftly portraying the desperation of the race and the nonpartisan nature of corruption and incompetence. 8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bowden often waded into a murky underworld, where violence, corruption and amorality were the norm. Charles Bowden, author of probing, lyrical accounts of the Southwest, dies at 69

Some were accounts of sexual violence and some focused on other kinds of corruption. The day I confronted Harvey Weinstein: ‘He said, 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

He would, he added, send them money every year if he could, but they probably had no bank accounts, so there was no way to do so “without corruption”. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

According to the Times, the story is "an intriguing insight into the corruption in Britain's film industry" – the assumption being many movies are elaborate tax scams, draining millions from the public purse. A Landscape of Lies: the gangster film that taxed the taxman 2013-03-13T19:03:53Z

As Wright, you try to solve crimes of passion, deception and high-level corruption, a story written with healthy, good-natured humor that acknowledges how ridiculous and dramatic the courtroom action can get. The year’s best video games for kids feature new takes on old favorites 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

You’re right in the thick of it and you feel so angry, because you know it all comes down to corruption and greed. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Though he struggles to maintain his principles, resistance is futile in the face of a new corruption and the constant threat of violence. 'Teza': Ethiopia's tortured history, as seen through a disillusioned man's eyes 2010-04-29T20:09:00Z

Much of “Chernobyl” is preoccupied with the quiet traces of heroism and dignity that faced down the corruption and dishonesty that defined Soviet life. Review | A grim ‘Chernobyl’ shows what happens when lying is standard and authority is abused 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

This ballet, first staged in 1856 in Paris, has become a triumph of textual corruption. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Sends Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Corsaire? Into Cinemas 2012-03-12T22:19:26Z

What’s more, Pack is still working on his goals — “drain the swamp, to root out corruption, and to deal with . . . issues of bias,” he has said. Perspective | Restoring the Voice of America after a Trump ‘wrecking ball’ won’t be easy. But it’s worth saving. 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

The investigation leads to a dangerous trail of corruption that extends to Las Vegas and reveals dark secrets about the police department. TV highlights: ‘Flaked’ premieres on Netflix 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rosengart said he believed that was what spurred Mr. Spears’s 180-degree turn to suddenly wanting to terminate the conservatorship, adding: “What he’s afraid of is the revelation of his corruption.” Judge Frees Spears From Father’s Control 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

During my childhood in the ’60s, riots, protests, violence, racial tension, political corruption and upheaval, as well as the tragedy of the war in Vietnam, were a daily and inescapable backdrop to American life. Perspective | Ask Amy: This husband can make but not take a joke 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Law enforcement, social reform, fighting corruption: these would seem to be the most important aspects of any contemporary abolition movement. Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z

The reality was far different, with abandoned facilities, claims of corruption, and lost opportunities to remake Rio for all of its citizens. Anger in Tokyo over the Summer Olympics is the latest example of how unpopular hosting has become 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

What irks Brolin's gangster squad is that alien corruption is robbing their city of its essential virtues. Gangster Squad reflects the west coast's fear of the east 2013-01-07T17:25:58Z

The racism and corruption King depicts were so embedded in Lake County that they perverted even perversions of justice; the argument is timely and important, even if one sometimes wishes it were more clearly made. A True-Crime Mystery From the 1950s, Fueled by Racism and Corruption 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Then his boss was executed for corruption in a scandal that gripped the decaying north-eastern industrial powerhouse Shenyang. Wang Xiaofang exposes world of Chinese bureaucracy 2011-02-25T19:19:44Z

“Days of Grace,” the debut feature from Everardo Gout, a Mexican filmmaker with a background in music videos and television commercials, weaves together three stories of violence and corruption in Mexico City. ‘Days of Grace,’ a Mexican Film by Everardo Gout 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

And Shakespeare's themes of power, corruption, murder and vengeance in "Julius Caesar" naturally resonate with performers who are serving sentences ranging from 14 years to life. Mafioso and murderer tackle Shakespeare in new film 2012-02-11T12:31:02Z

The latest season of “Daredevil” dealt with police corruption, but didn’t directly address — either in content or in its visuals — the overall impact of systemic racism on minority communities. WATCH: First full-length “Luke Cage” trailer doesn’t shy away from the #BlackLivesMatter movement 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

And in case we missed the message about money and corruption, Mr. Lam hammers it home during the climactic scene, which features a shattered statue of the scales of justice. Review: ‘Wild City’ Follows Two (Very) Good Samaritans in Hong Kong 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Widening inequality, a shrinking middle class, global warming, the corruption of our democracy by big money – all of these, and more, must be addressed. Robert Reich: “Cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophecy” 2013-05-14T15:58:00Z

Giving small-ball independent reviewers free copies of a $60 game if they offered it praise seems like a very clear and serious case of corruption. Gamergate’s fickle hero: The dark opportunism of Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

The review announced by the Independent Press Complaints Commission reflects the seriousness of the corruption charges, which are apparently based on information provided by the Sunday newspaper to police in recent days. UK phone hacking scandal damages police reputation 2011-07-07T17:35:13Z

It’s a reminder that exposing corruption is one step; ridding the system of it is another. 'Ungli,' Written and Directed by Rensil D'Silva 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Even the dramatic images of daring helicopter rescues of stranded people from rooftops are blunted by stories of police corruption, and worse, that followed. The TV Watch: 5 Years on, Katrina Dampens Coverage 2010-08-27T21:58:00Z

In Dave, for example, Kevin Kline plays a Presidential impersonator who gets shoehorned into leading the country, only to reveal corruption at the highest levels of the United States government. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The look of corruption, like the look of most developing countries, is more modern than just a few years ago. High-Payoff Careers 2011-02-02T23:00:00Z

The movie offers a script partly by William Faulkner, plenty of corruption and innuendo, and perhaps the fastest bookshop seduction ever committed to celluloid. There Is Nothing Like a Dame 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

City government — often disorganized, sometimes plagued with corruption — had gathered almost no data on the epidemic in over five years. Burger King’s bacon sundae 2012-06-13T14:21:00Z

It reveals how the movement’s ideology distracts from issues that matter — inequality, poverty, racism, environmental degradation, corruption — and encourages its followers to waste their energies on irrelevancies. How conservatives exposed ridiculous truth about their ideology as they flipped out about this shoe 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

The Metropolitan Police complained last March over a story about an official review into possible police corruption. C4 News report 'misled viewers' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

The filmmaker spoke via Skype with Salon about corruption, air-conditioning, soccer and other aspects of making “Such is Life in the Tropics.” “In the world of squatter settlements, there has been quite a bit of violence over the past decades”: Director Sebastian Cordero talks about “Such is Life in the Tropics” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, has been a leading figure in the prosecution of political corruption cases, including gaining convictions against former Govs. Cheney blasts Fitzgerald prosecution 2011-09-19T21:37:00Z

Pullman turns a shrewd eye to institutional corruption, the casual evil of complicity, the systematic subjugation of the poor and the vulnerability of women navigating a man’s world. Review | Philip Pullman returns to the world of ‘His Dark Materials’ with ‘The Secret Commonwealth’ 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

“I used to dislike them for their banal conformity until I realized they were ripe for corruption; once I decided to almost parody them, they became essential to me,” he said by email. From Humble Sneaker to Luxury Icon 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

His book on Pamela, Midnight in Peking, is a fascinating tale of life and death in a city on the brink of all-out war, a world of corruption, hubris, brutality and madness. Midnight in Peking: Has Paul French Solved a 75-Year-Old Murder? 2012-04-30T15:45:50Z

While never able to compete with the state channels, Dozhd has been popular with urban middle-class Russians disturbed by the corruption and growing authoritarianism under Putin. How Russia hits back at slights over WWII victory 2014-02-10T14:06:15Z

As a courtroom artist during the Tammany era, my father saw rank corruption and deplored its effect. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z

They hurt society by distracting from the very real problems of corruption and decreasing genuine participation in democracy. How to pull a friend out of the conspiracy theory rabbit hole 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Four small brass-cast sculptures and about 25 drawings, all focusing on corruption, militarization and nationalism, are an extension of his installation titled “Covert,” which he is showing at the Venice Biennale this year. At Frieze London, a Web of Art Circling the World 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

She dealt in her films with such controversial subjects as abortion and corruption in the Catholic Church over a hundred years ago. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

There are many other issues: computer profiles of customers; high technology’s growing impact; celebrity’s creeping corruption. Movie Review: ‘Three Stars,’ With Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Other Chefs 2012-09-20T23:32:13Z

This is one defined not by greed, corruption and a hunger for power, but by a generosity of spirit and an imagination that changed the course of literature. The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice 2013-03-24T00:06:34Z

The series focuses on the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption within the department. What’s on TV This Week: ‘We Own This City’ and the N.F.L. Draft 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

Critics say power problems are driven by corruption, mismanagement and under investment. Venezuela Christmas decorations light up anger over blackouts 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Could it be that the incessant scratching noise is the sound of that corruption made manifest?Practically all the stories draw their strength from an image of displacement or anxiety. Scenes from Village Life by Amos Oz - review 2011-08-05T09:00:03Z

Project Veritas, which is headed by O’Keefe, regularly uses such methods in order to expose what it says is corruption and fraud. Analysis | What the latest James O’Keefe video leaves out 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

King Charles I has been imprisoned for corruption; royalists have fled their estates. Prepare to Be Provoked. Caryl Churchill Is Back. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

He ended up being convicted on federal corruption charges. Politics wreaked havoc on retirement code 2011-12-16T03:20:00Z

These errors, Ms. Sabouni says, were compounded by the corruption, mismanagement and thoughtless development projects of the Syrian state. Trapped in Homs, Architect Imagines a New Future for Syrian Cities 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

The youth are more vocal in India and the media exposes a lot of the corruption. Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood's social conscience 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z

The movie also includes archival footage, still photographs and an examination of the incompetence and corruption that allowed the conditions that led to the fire. New film explores legacy of Boston’s Cocoanut Grove fire 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

What prompted you to address these issues of money, corruption and injustice? “In the world of squatter settlements, there has been quite a bit of violence over the past decades”: Director Sebastian Cordero talks about “Such is Life in the Tropics” 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The party rails against corruption, supports reneging on a European Union bailout agreement and advocates mining the border with Turkey to prevent what it calls an invasion of immigrants that is “altering the demographic composition.” Embattled Greeks lash out at migrants 2012-10-04T22:55:00Z

Although the stories are fictional, the subject of poaching and corruption in India's forests and conservation efforts is topical. Novelist Tania James talks rogue elephants, India and conservation 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Part history lesson, part protest, the play uses a series of sketches to dramatize ghastly housing conditions and to condemn corruption, speculators and slumlords. | 'One-Third of a Nation': A Depression-Era Protest Ripped From the Headlines 2011-05-01T21:19:13Z

In the first, a conspiracy thriller, the younger Heidi wakes to the realization that she has enabled an act of soul-stealing governmental corruption. “Homecoming,” Reviewed: Julia Roberts in the Heavy Weather of a Late-Capitalist Dystopia 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Rawlence’s passages about Kenyan corruption fill the nostrils with a smell so rank that you can hardly breathe. Review: In ‘City of Thorns,’ Ben Rawlence Tells a Refugee Camp’s Story 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

"Yes, I think we ARE sick," says this politician who made her name by standing up to drug corruption in Colombia's congress in the 1990s. In harrowing book, freed hostage details horror 2010-09-22T21:40:00Z

Sex, death and corruption: Sunday nights are a long way from the cosy larks of Monarch Of The Glen. Sunday night fever 2011-01-01T00:07:00Z

The audience hoots and hollers at what is clearly a tale of greed, corruption and murder. Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo, where paradise is a leaky canoe without a paddle 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Between 1999 and 2009, I had published eight novels and these were all very dark novels, dealing with serial killers and police corruption, political intrigue and violence, war and its aftermath. A Selfless Man: David Peace Talks About Bill Shankly and 'Red or Dead' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Yet in this authoritative account, Wrong, an Africa specialist, exposes the country’s long history of corruption and human rights abuses under the leadership of President Paul Kagame. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

"Finally, in his efforts to attack the police work of the Mexican authorities, the fugitive tries to indict the entire Mexican judicial system, alleging corruption," the filing states. Prosecutors urge reality TV producer's extradition 2011-06-23T23:45:13Z

The fortune disappears because of vast corruption within the Russia of Vladimir Putin, and a searing death occurs connected to Browder’s business dealings. ‘Red Notice’: corruption and murder in the new Russia 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

But it is also a place rife with corruption, fraudulent schemes and unchecked development. Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Which highlights a core problem with the movement: When a legitimate corruption scandal not involving women, or feminism, or any real misogynist angle arises, it’s more or less ignored. Gamergate’s fickle hero: The dark opportunism of Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

From politicians with their hands in the cookie jar to police routinely asking for bribes, corruption is widely cited as the greatest betrayal of Mandela's values. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z

It's an obvious destination for Angus Macqueen's excellent series, and his findings are inevitably depressing: such is the corruption of Afghanistan's government that, to some extent, British troops are dying to protect heroin dealers. Our Drugs War 2010-08-16T05:45:00Z

The corruption associated with international soccer’s top hierarchy is truly staggering. John Oliver can’t do FIFA justice: How the organization ruined football 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

One is universal, the narrative of Animal Farm or Lord of the Flies: the inevitable corruption of power, especially that achieved by force of arms. Director Matthew Heineman: ‘Suddenly I was alone with my camera in the middle of this shootout’ 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

High crime rates, heavy drug trafficking, corruption and government incompetence add to the bleak picture. The Many Faces of Puerto Rico 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

Why do Donald Trump’s supporters keep standing by their man, even in the face of mounting evidence of his administration’s incompetence and possible corruption? WATCH: Why Trump fans won’t dump him now 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

The rapper, also known as El-Haqed, or the enraged, writes songs attacking corruption and social injustice and is involved in the pro-democracy February 20 movement. Moroccan rapper charged for anti-police song 2012-04-04T15:53:09Z

Another Chinese artist, Song Ta, was also prevented from participating by culture bureau officials even though a show of his works, which often address Communist Party corruption, ran unimpeded in a Beijing gallery. Power Station of Art Grows Up With a 10th Biennale 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

The word “Sioux” refers to a coalition of seven allied and related nations, including the Lakotas, but the word itself is a French corruption of “Nadouessioux,” an Ojibwe word meaning “snake” — or enemy. ‘Lakota America’ Puts the Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse Front and Center 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

But Ortega’s sudden, election-night desire to spend more time with his family carries a whiff of corruption that stings the nose as much as Escobar’s white powder. 'Narcos' Episode 3 Recap: Pablo the Politician 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z

The balaclavas and Kalashnikovs and the culture of gangsters are connected to bottomless corruption. The Bard of Eastern Ukraine, Where Things Are Falling Apart 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

The clash of cutlery, on the other hand, occasionally echoes as Tolstoy’s tale of love, corruption and fateful meetings swirls like a feverish dream before us, above us, around us. Theater Review: ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’ at Kazino 2013-05-17T02:00:12Z

Into this rich fairytale mix – princes and hawks and taxes and corruption – he adds a couple of other layers of recent legend. Jeremy Deller's visions of England 2013-06-01T22:00:01Z

Wiley’s crusade for pure food was part of a larger Progressive movement challenging monopoly power and government corruption. The Man Who Pioneered Food Safety 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The government said the detentions were a crackdown on corruption, and many Saudis welcomed the idea. ‘MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman,’ by Ben Hubbard: An Excerpt 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Shouldn't that organization be trying to fix the root of the problem about so-called corruption, and admit that the young athletes bringing in millions to these universities aren't "amateurs?" Fixing the Leadership Crisis In Sports 2011-06-03T10:00:00Z

You've made films about torture in Afghanistan, about the corruption of Enron, about the Church of Scientology, trying to get all kinds of people to trust you, who arguably have a reason — Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

What Mr. Hibbert found on research trips was a country riddled with corruption, where miscarriages of justice are commonplace. Katie Leung Stars in ‘One Child’ by Guy Hibbert 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

“If the West would have been less complacent about Putin and corruption for the last eight or 10 years, then I think Putin would not be so emboldened.” Yacht justice: A new front in the war drags Russia’s oligarchs into the spotlight 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

As with "Heart of Darkness," the seductions and corruptions of power haunt this novel, but it is the power of the Bad Mother -- in contrast to the Bad Father embodied by Conrad's Kurtz. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z

The name may be a corruption of the word “Moorish,” but the dance’s connection to the Muslim inhabitants of the Iberian Peninsula remains unclear. This troupe celebrates the earthy allure of a strange English folk dance. And beer. 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

His four children are forced into difficult choices, while his outraged co-workers organize an uprising to expose the club’s corruption and abuse. Novels by Kathleen Alcott, Vu Tran and Alaa Al Aswany; a Memoir by David Payne 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

In his first term, he cancelled 86% of the working currency in India with just four hours notice in the name of fighting corruption. John Oliver explains Trump's support of Modi, India's 'temporary symbol of hate' 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The image that stays with you longest in “Kleptocracy,” Kenneth Lin’s stark but emotionally colorless new play about the multifarious corruptions of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, is one of Putin himself, as a butcher. Is Vladimir Putin box-office poison? In a new play, he’s certainly toxic enough. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

If that sounds like “Xscape” is some corruption of Jackson’s artistic legacy — well, it’s not that clear cut. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z

Three days after Flynn appeared in court, Maggio’s documentary will replay scenes of senior Nixon officials facing the music in the political corruption scandal that brought down the president in 1974. Ben Bradlee: the ground-breaking editor who helped bring down Nixon 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

The moral rot of the Vietnam War and the reckless corruption of the Nixon years now seem mere tributaries to a wider flood of contemporary political division and cynicism. Perspective | I returned to the National Gallery seeking comfort. But art no longer feels like an escape. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Unemployment is high, and institutional corruption is still a huge problem. What does Afghanistan need? Some major rebranding, says its 32-year-old ambassador. 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Though other detectives and lead characters twist and shuffle through addiction, attraction, corruption and a generally fluid morality, Christopher Foyle doggedly remains a fixed point in an uncertain universe. Lamenting the end of 'Foyle's War,' a TV masterpiece 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Police said he keeps personal watercraft and two powered hang gliders in his reportedly palatial residential compound in the resort, known for its wide-open night life, foreign criminal gangs and police suspected of corruption. Russian pianist accused of child rape in Thailand 2010-07-07T12:57:00Z

A parable about the contagious nature of corruption and the curse of dirty money, “1000 Rupee Note” asks, How valuable is a windfall to people who live their lives largely without money? Review: ‘1000 Rupee Note,’ a Poor Widow’s Blessing and Curse 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

But national ads generally play to the middle with more centrist themes — health care, the economy, corruption, public safety. NBC just can’t quit Trump: Anti-immigrant ad flouted the network’s “respect and dignity”... 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

SPRINGFIELD— Ex-Gov. should be denied his $65,000-a-year pension because the corruption that is sending him to prison is clearly tied to his position in state government, the Illinois attorney general advised Thursday. Lisa Madigan: No pension for Blago 2011-12-08T21:42:00Z

By enumerating these purchases, the prosecutors hoped to present a picture of unbridled greed to support their portrait of corruption and tax evasion. How Hidden Billions Are Making the Rich Richer 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

A detective in the Oslo police force, Hole is a Doc Martens-wearing bad boy who remains the most ethically uncompromised swimmer in a sea of corruption. Lit life | Norwegian author Jo Nesb? writes another chapter in the history of Nordic noir 2010-03-15T04:01:00Z

The show, which ended its first run on Tuesday night, recalls U.S. series like "The Wire" or "The Sopranos" in its unrelenting portrait of violence, corruption and drugs in the crumbling high-rise tenements around Naples. Gritty Naples mafia series aims to join international TV boom 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Chevron lawyer Randy Mastro calls the film outtakes a "treasure trove" and says they will expose "corruption and fraud and a travesty of justice going on right now in Ecuador." Maker of film 'Crude' ordered to turn over footage 2010-05-06T23:46:00Z

These four novellas address the seductions and corruptions of technology, the extremes of beauty and depravity in even the most ordinary life, and the workings of a universe we can never entirely understand. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Wielding a rusty sword, justice fights an awkward battle against corruption, incompetence and viral gossip in the Hindi movie “Talvar.” Review: ‘Talvar,’ With Irrfan Khan, Depicts a Double Murder’s Muddied Waters 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

Another part is Snyder’s writing background: as she states in the preface, Snyder has reported from the “hidden corners of the world” about political corruption, war crimes, terrorism, sex trafficking—the big stuff. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

It's about the corruption that goes on that side of the border and the corruption that goes on this side of the border. Machete Star Danny Trejo 2010-09-02T16:25:00Z

For Jamie, that corruption has a personal resonance — a guitarist, he becomes a junkie, and by his mid-30s has been abandoned by his band mates, his family, even himself. Faith and magic get a 'Revival' in new Stephen King novel 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

After the unification of Italy in 1861, many viewed Rome as a sinkhole of papal corruption, swampy with the threat of malaria. 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson – review 2013-04-28T07:00:01Z

“When I first got here, I did decide that some of the co-stars needed a solid does of corruption,” he said, smoking on a bench outside the school. Arts & Leisure: Emma Watson?s Personal Journey to the Suburbs From Hogwarts 2011-10-05T12:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, amid tales of corruption and brutality, management structures were brought in to tame this wild beast. The Sweeney: box set review 2013-02-14T16:00:01Z

If you look at the corruption element in Indian life, if you look at stories about the Commonwealth games, then these things will inspire film-makers. Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood's social conscience 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z

In Senegal he has emerged as an outspoken critic of Mr. Wade, whose 11 years in office have been marked by widespread accusations of corruption, nepotism, constraints on freedom of expression and personal enrichment. ArtsBeat Blog: Youssou N'dour to Put Music on Hold and Turn to Politics 2011-11-28T19:28:15Z

Instead, Frank’s fate — and the corruption investigation that threatens it — is the driving force of the series. Television Review: Killers Who Just Won’t Lighten Up 2013-08-08T22:34:06Z

She delivered a prepared monologue decrying the corruption of political leaders, the food industry, inveterate racism and neglect of the poor. Review: Jazzmeia Horn, a Jazz Vocalist on the Rise, Steps Up to the Microphone at Dizzy’s 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Due to the corruption scandal, the couple was stripped of their aristocratic titles and dropped from the Royal House’s payroll. Spanish monarch’s sister and husband break up after 25 years 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

“As a result of climate change, and of economic corruption, there’s a migration system at work. People have got to move – and when the water levels rise they’re going to move even quicker.” Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

Meg Wolitzer’s “The Female Persuasion” feels almost prescient in its exploration of gender politics, corporate corruption and, ultimately, how much is enough when it comes to personal sacrifice. Review | Meg Wolitzer’s ‘Female Persuasion’ captures our era’s gender politics 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

The show, featuring songs such as All That Jazz, is a satirical look at the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in 1920s Chicago - as a scheming showgirl tries to get away with murder. Chicago makes Broadway history 2012-12-21T10:25:43Z

When first he touches his dead father's arm he howls – we sense the corruption of the grave seep between them. Hamlet – review 2013-03-31T00:05:19Z

Obama described the summit as an "extraordinary event" which promoted trade and discussed issues ranging from combatting corruption to women's rights and freedom of the press. Barack Obama pushes for 'global effort' to combat spread of Ebola 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

Anger over rising food and fuel prices combined with long-simmering resentments about government repression and corruption sparked what became known as the Arab Spring. Real-life hunger games 2012-08-07T20:03:00Z

Leveson seemed quite incredulous about some of the answers he heard from tabloid witnesses, not those about criminal activities like hacking but the legal investigative techniques employed to reveal corruption. After Leveson: the struggle to preserve cherished press freedoms won 300 years ago 2013-02-26T19:49:35Z

The people change but corruption itself remains unstoppable. True Detective: season two, episode eight recap – Omega Station 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

But even if it did, there is no guarantee it would be spent wisely, with corruption, bureaucracy, shoddy workmanship and organized crime all lurking in the shadows. Italy's vulnerable beauty lacks funds and attention against earthquakes 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

The film depicted corruption and moral decay among members of officialdom and the upper class. Lizabeth Scott, sultry femme fatale of Hollywood’s film noir, dies at 92 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z

Matthew Cooke’s sardonic yet informative documentary presents America’s war on drugs not only as a no-win scenario but as a boondoggle kept alive by corruption, profit and political opportunism. A&E highlights: wooden boats, smoke on water for July 4 2013-06-26T22:25:18Z

The institutional corruption here comes from political money. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Allegations of corruption have been directed at members of Putin’s inner circle, and Putin has been beset by problems: pensions to pay and a shambolic military to modernize. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto in Putin’s Side 2012-07-03T21:56:57Z

Prosecutors have dropped corruption inquiries implicating members of Erdogan's inner circle, including into alleged links to construction sector bribes, due to insufficient evidence. Gentrification tears at Istanbul's historically diverse fabric 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Her very presence made insiders uneasy because it reminded them of the cozy corruption that had become the normal way of doing business around Capitol Hill. Books of The Times: ‘The Unwinding,’ by George Packer 2013-05-28T21:18:55Z

The story of Blazer’s involvement in a high-profile bribery scandal showcased the dark underbelly of soccer, revealing illicit corruption throughout the international body. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Team Up for FIFA Scandal Movie 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Monteverdi’s opera emerges vividly in this impressive production, as musically stunning as ever, with its all-too-pertinent tale of power grabs and political corruption driven by sex. Music Review: Bad Guys Singing Of Love And Power 2010-11-19T05:30:00Z

"The rest is really just a backdrop," Netzer told reporters, stressing that it is "a very universal story" and that "corruption is not something which is only taking place in Romania." Romanian movie `Child's Pose' wins at Berlin fest 2013-02-17T00:01:04Z

By itself, journalism — no matter how proficient or how brave — can’t save us from political corruption at the highest level. Perspective | Journalists can’t repeat their Watergate-hero act. The reasons should make us grieve. 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

It is, he says, a "tyrannical, criminal and murderous" country whose main export is corruption. Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West by Edward Lucas – review 2013-02-15T17:41:01Z

Their pasts are full of vengeful ghosts, institutional corruption is rife and innocents routinely get chewed up on the sidelines. Cowboy Bebop remake: please Netflix, keep the anime classic wild and raw 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

He was lionized by his fans for his efforts at exposing government corruption and media bias. Breitbart website, editor say activist has died 2012-03-01T16:46:04Z

Both are political thrillers that romanticize malfeasance, imbuing corruption with a sinister melodrama that defies common sense and cheapens the thrill of bad behavior. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z

The story and its subjects can be unsettlingly frank, but “The Deuce” excels at examining corruption and sin as innately human instincts — and as business propositions. Review | Fall TV 2017: 10 new shows worth checking out (and 5 you can totally skip) 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

He attributed that to the unique combination of skilled scriptwriting, acting and directing as well as to the film’s insights into an American brand of power and corruption. The Lore of ‘The Godfather’ Resurfaces at Roger Stone’s Trial 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Jean was aspiring to take the top job from a standing start, in a country that, even before January's calamitous earthquake, was wracked by crime, corruption and economic decline. Wyclef Jean: 'Fans are calling me the new Dylan' 2010-12-05T21:30:00Z

The transformation and corruption of America’s moral values didn’t happen in the shadows. Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

“The creation of professional journalism was to get the corruption out of it so people could trust the story.” The new journalism — and the PR firms behind it 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

The Taliban insurgency is bad enough, but chaos also looms if corruption scotches the “fragile gains” achieved so far, Sopko says. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

The theme of high-level corruption, which runs throughout his work, lies at the heart of Dirty Money, a six-part series he has produced for Netflix. Alex Gibney: ‘Every business Trump touched withered and died’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

In the context of the semi-failed Mexican state and widespread corruption among police and politicians, Mireles became a huge celebrity and an immensely controversial figure. “Cartel Land”: A crazy, violent trip into Mexico’s deadly drug war and America’s border paranoia 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

There’s also a criminal investigation at her husband’s bank and widespread public concern about government corruption that fuels even more protests. Bored in Brazil: Is She the 21st-Century Ugly American? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

This collection is primarily preoccupied with stories of war and imperialism in Colombia, legacies that haven’t ended but have instead devolved into generational traumas, state corruption and endless cycles of violence. One Apartment Building, Many Lives 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

While both work to fill roles they felt their respective governments had neglected, their efforts aren’t immune to their own corruption. 'Cartel Land' Documents Vigilantes North and South of the Border 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

But all that new construction came with corruption, too, and many ordinary Nigerians resented the splashy expense in the face of more pressing needs. A Shining Moment of Pan-African Promise 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Spiraling inflation, widespread corruption and ludicrous financial thinking were erasing Venezuela’s historic oil boom. The Disaster That Is Venezuela 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

After Mubarak fell, Hawass, whose imperious side earned him his share of enemies, found himself not just fired from his job as minister of state antiquities but also the target of corruption allegations. Zahi Hawass is on the stump again for ancient Egypt's Pharaohs 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

On Friday, the judge rejected Raniere's latest bid for a new trial, after Raniere accused the judge of corruption and demanded a new trial. NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere sentenced to 120 years in prison 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

Naples itself is a sprawling, chaotic, difficult place, memorably portrayed in Matteo Garrone’s “Gomorrah” as an inferno of corruption and violence. | 'Passione': Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy 2011-06-21T22:19:30Z

It is a picture of power and corruption and the enormous insecurities that gnaw at the autocratic mind. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z

There are shadows and complications, of course, including the corruptions of wealth, the treachery of rivals and Kenny’s own impulsiveness. Review: Matthew McConaughey Mines Profane Capitalism in ‘Gold’ 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Not just outright corruption, not secretive backroom deals, but actual public legislative actions that would have seemed outrageous a generation ago. Women Olympians: They’re hot! 2012-06-19T18:40:00Z

Although Mr. Greenwood brings a sly humor to his Chauncey-like role, this satire about the corruption of language registers only when Adan’s nonsensical slogans weirdly apply to the situation at hand. Movie Review: ‘And Now a Word From Our Sponsor,’ With Bruce Greenwood 2013-05-10T00:37:58Z

The Hook is set in 1950s New York and follows a dockworker who encounters corruption. An Unseen Arthur Miller Play Will Debut in 2015 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the bombing investigation kicks the plot into the realm of government and financial corruption. 'The Death Instinct': in 1920, a terrible act of terrorism on Wall Street 2011-01-27T00:59:04Z

Set during a period of political and social unrest, with rumors of the French Revolution muttered in the alleys, corruption is rampant among the Stockholm police. Review | For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice — and an even darker side of Sweden 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

A special commissioner was appointed to oversee improvements, but he was later accused of corruption, overspending and even damaging parts of the site. Can a Restored Pompeii Be Saved From ‘Clambering’ Tourists? 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

“The Red Line” also stumbles when it travels into Blue Lives Matter territory, leaning too heavily on Irish cop stereotypes and easy tropes of corruption. Review | Noah Wyle gives a must-see performance in CBS’s occasionally clunky ‘Red Line’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

It speaks to the universal struggle of minority people to be free and the all too common corruption of governments determined to maintain control. Review | We waited 20 years for her follow-up to ‘The God of Small Things.’ It was worth it. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

But to the reader fully clued into his activities, he seems more like a dewy puppy who, eagerly lapping up corruption and rationalizing his motives every step of the way, starts taking on pit-bull qualities. In first novel, Seattle's Peter Mountford takes a dazzling trip to Bolivia 2011-04-13T21:36:04Z

The storyline created a dichotomy between girls and boys, purity and corruption, innocence and violence. Kids from Larry Clark's Kids: 'We were like the United Nations of skateboarding' 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Likability is often used as a synonym for nice and safe and dull,” she wrote, “but that’s a corruption of the word: Who really likes that?” Reese Witherspoon Isn't Nice and Wholesome in "Wild," and That’s What Makes it Great 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

An organization called Information, which oversees everything from the elections to the media, is overloaded with personal data and ripe for corruption. Best science fiction novels to read this month 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z

While there has long been corruption in the bidding process for the Olympics, the Valieva episode tarnished the actual competition, Billings said. Once savvy, NBC’s Olympics deal is shakier after Beijing 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z

Rife with corruption and petty thievery, stricken by routine power outages and plagued by the general public’s blithe disregard for competence, order and even history, this muggy delta metropolis both agitates and stifles sensitive souls. ‘Every Day is for the Thief:’ back home in tumultuous Lagos 2014-03-20T21:15:07Z

"As our cops are shamed by cover-ups and corruption," said a headline in the Sun, that well-known voice of anti-establishment dissent, "We ask: can we ever trust them?" Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police Paul Lewis and Rob Evans – review 2013-06-29T13:00:00Z

Jazz got a crucial nudge into the academy from Wynton Marsalis and his fellow young neo-traditionalists, who were guarding against what they saw as the corruptions of fusion and free jazz. Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Many of the characters, with the exception of the child legal advocate Hao, are up to their necks in squalid corruption. Review: ‘Angels Wear White’ Is a Searing Tale of Moral Rot in China 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

“The levels of corruption are so immense, so culturally ingrained in Italy,” he said, referring to the scandals involving the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. A ?Mystery!? Series That Has (Gasp!) Actual Sunshine 2011-07-09T04:15:16Z

Yes, the Fighting Bob Fest is named for La Follette, a truly great U.S. senator who was renowned for battling the corruption of American politics by corporate money. Putting the party back in politics: The progressive legacy is revered each year in Wisconsin as corporate pols are dismissed 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z

Connections emerge slowly as lies and secrets are revealed in this intricately plotted novel about the corruptions of money and power. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Keefe narrates the book in a strong, clear baritone, a prosecutorial voice remarkably suited to detailing this shameful docket of greed, mendacity, arrogance, callousness, corruption and hypocrisy. Review | The 3 best new audiobooks to listen to in August 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z

We meet some of those customers, and this story expands until it takes in corruption and greed on a gruesome scale. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Roman Catholic Church, as Sorrentino presents it, is a throbbing tangle of contradictions where spirituality and corruption coexist in flamboyant contradiction, often within its individual members. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Great Beauty’ and Iowa Caucus Coverage 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Francesco Rosi, an Italian director whose gritty films offered a socially charged look into the country's underworld of crime and corruption, died on Saturday at age 92, officials said. Film director Rosi, who explored Italy's dark side, dies at 92 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

He travels to the gambling mecca of Macau to document money laundering and the spoils of government corruption. ‘Age of Ambition’ and ‘Leftover Women’ Gauge Social Upheaval 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z

"There is no known corruption in Lagos," declares the local kingpin's spokesman confidently as everybody smiles and blood spatters the pavement. BBC Election 70 2010-10-09T05:45:00Z

The former reporter and Joint Chiefs of Staff adviser zeroes in on the roots and effect of widespread corruption in global governments.  Here are the 2016 L.A. Times Book Prize winners 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

But at the moment, surrounded by corruption, bad faith, antagonism and winter, it sometimes feels that we might be stuck in our own intractable Bad Place. The Good Place: was this the most devastating TV finale ever? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

We live in a universe of treacherous choices, of corruption and degradation on both the individual and the collective level. Literature and the moral question 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

He zeroes in on the vices that he sees as characteristic of modern Istanbul, such as political corruption and private greed. ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ review: Orhan Pamuk’s love letter to Turkey 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

Another is the hard practicality of daily life: domestic troubles and financial worries, covert romances and longstanding grudges, petty corruption and differences of culture and principle. “A Bread Factory,” Reviewed: An Audacious Four-Hour Portrait of Culture Clash in Small-Town New England 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

But fear not – there's enough acknowledgement of corruption and malice to add a balancing menace to those sappier aspects. In PBS' playful "Around the World in 80 Days" David Tennant channels Jules Verne's liberated spirit 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z

Karl Sharro for a show called Ali in Amreeka in which a Muslim teenager finds himself trapped in America, "unable to reconcile himself with the excess and corruption of Western culture". US TV drama about Saudi Arabia axed 2014-03-24T18:14:04Z

There’s sometimes a perception of cronyism and corruption. Marty Walsh: ‘I have a president and a vice president who really believe in the mission of the Department of Labor’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

As Finder tells it, vast amounts of corruption were involved, with billions of dollars making their way into the pockets of politicians and local leaders. Book World: ‘The Fixer’ by Joseph Finder 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

We could make mistakes and there's always brushing with mistakes and corruption, and it's insane doing disaster relief, but we're tight and right. Bethenny Frankel talks leaving "Housewives," the Depp-Heard trial & her book "Business Is Personal" 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

The first episode tells the story of Martha Mitchell, whose early warnings of corruption were ignored — and whose reputation was besmirched because of her true assertions. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

The novel’s political intrigue and corruption, and the sadness that accompanies the sense of helplessness in the face of a great evil, is prescient. A Timely Dystopian Thriller With Sexual Assault and Political Corruption at Its Core 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

If Waterston’s work is about the art world, it is about the deeper, structural corruption of it, not simply a visceral protest against its absurd excesses. ‘Filthy Lucre’ and the complicated relationship between artist and buyer 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

The people of Greece were not free of venal corruptions any more than Latin America was free of brutal dictatorships, but it was easier to appeal to America’s preference for the moral high ground. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Lee has consistently depicted the African-American community as consumed by hypocrisy, corruption, shallow materialism and self-hatred. “Chi-Raq”: Spike Lee’s blistering, outrageous satirical assault on a society consumed by violence 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

To be fair, the rug was pulled out from under him as a child when the deal Thomas Wayne struck for the city became a funnel for corruption. Rating the Batman’s Riddler: Did Paul Dano surpass what’s been done? 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

His profound alienation also arises from social inequality, the decline of civility, political corruption, television, government bureaucracy and a slew of other causes. ‘Joker’ Review: Are You Kidding Me? 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

In the movie he complains that the media concentrate less on stories about corruption in Kenya than about “how weird I am.” The Fifth Estate: A Hollywood Cartoon of Julian Assange 2013-10-16T17:42:52Z

She began attracting followers who believed that she represented an outpost of true faith in the midst of widespread corruption in the church. Books to Watch Out For: December 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

And it doesn't help that her employer, the Church of England, is far from free of prejudice, sexism, greed and corruption. Anne Holt's top 10 female detectives 2010-12-08T12:34:00Z

His suspicions had been proved right when Quinn had been moved sideways again and Giles had underlined his corruption by taking a job in a merchant bank. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – digested read 2013-04-28T16:00:01Z

The words are a corruption of the Italian for “old things.” My House in Cairo 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

Some hear a presidential gangster using the federal government to shake down a foreign official; others hear a leader trying to root out corruption in a fragile ally. Review | In the impeachment spin wars, only the English majors can save us 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

The former Nicaraguan president was a businessman who led the country from 2002 to 2007, saw his predecessor and old running mate locked up for corruption and pushed for the country’s economic development. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

A Moscow correspondent who lived in the former Soviet Union, he was so successful in investigating Russian corruption that Moscow expelled him from the country. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

In the biography the wives talked about their love for Fela and their wish to have his children, and also about their shared battle against corruption and repression anywhere in the world. Finding Depth in Fela?s Women 2009-12-17T15:17:00Z

But leaders are eager for the tiny enclave to shed its reputation for seediness and corruption and draw more middle-class Chinese families. Sands, Dreamworks strike Macau casino license deal 2013-04-30T11:33:10Z

He’s grizzled, alcoholic, surrounded by a lot of corruption, so he’s working against the police and trying to find the serial killer at the same time. Kim Gordon: By the Book 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

But details about suspected corruption are starting to emerge because of the increased focus on shoddy journalistic practices at Britain's highly competitive tabloids. UK phone hacking scandal damages police reputation 2011-07-07T17:35:13Z

Without getting into spoiler terrain, Robin’s final arrow in the film is aimed at the corruption of the monarchy. Film: Ridley Scott?s New Spectacle Film: ?Robin Hood? 2010-05-07T23:29:00Z

There is no rot of decay in the Catacombs, no reek of corruption, but rather a simple tinge of death. Beneath the bustling streets of Paris, the Catacombs are silent as the grave 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Gibbering newsman Commentator Runcible was a buffoon – it seems daft that a Timelord would complain of a bad hip, and the very idea of corruption in the Panopticon did not sit well for many. The Deadly Assassin: Doctor Who classic episode #8 2013-06-14T09:00:00Z

A rage against phoneyness and corruption is evident here, however much Burnham strives to cloak it in irony. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z

This requires an exact language that is charming and unforgiving, jargon which began with the punchcutter from the 15th century and has resisted all attempts at digital corruption. True to type: why letters are a labour of love 2010-10-16T23:00:00Z

Zonana keeps his cards close to his chest till the very end, folding an excoriating critique of class inequities and the corruption of capital into a taut thriller. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Management corruption, guard brutality, racial discrimination, overcrowding — all made it into the story at some point. Binge Your Way Through 99 Days of Summer 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

“A Dark, Dark Man” is set in a stretch of Kazakhstan where few people seem to live, yet corruption pervades every corner. ‘A Dark, Dark Man’ Review: Murder and Corruption in Kazakhstan 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

And so begins another quality European detective drama: flawed hero/heroine, institutional cynicism and corruption, wheels within wheels. Will Spiral become your new favourite Saturday night Euro cop drama? 2011-04-01T14:30:00Z

Like Baltimore, New Orleans is an urban centre with enormous economic disparity, violent crime, municipal corruption, infrastructural decay and racial polarisation. Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z

Which is to say about corruption, deceit and treachery, as well as sexism. Review: In ‘Equity,’ No Room for Sisterhood Amid Gloves-Off Wall Street Warfare 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

To begin with it is directed at Mr Yanukovych, with his clumsy duplicity and flagrant corruption. I witness 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

More Big Dig corruption and fewer Japanese knives and miraculous escapes might have improved, if not really fixed, “The Fixer.” Book World: ‘The Fixer’ by Joseph Finder 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

Negga, an Irish-Ethiopian actress, played the prince as a sheltered, thin-skinned young man abruptly forced into acknowledging a world ruled by corruption and death. Off Broadway’s Season Shook Up Norms of Life and Theater 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

Years ago, the comedian Bill Hicks began one of his stand-up specials with a video of himself riding a white horse and wearing a cowboy hat while talking about fighting corruption and evil. Bill Hicks, Revived on Video to Jar Viewers Out of Apathy 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

Arguably, the only movie that struck a contemporary note was "Mr. Smith," with its look at political corruption. 2010-02-02T04:18:00Z

This astounding documentary is so packed with surreal scenarios, casual corruption and inhumanity, it's difficult to believe it's actually true. The Act Of Killing, This Is The End, Despicable Me: this week's new films 2013-06-29T05:00:11Z

A legal complaint by Deborah Dugan, who became the academy’s chief executive in 2019 — only to be ejected just five months later — said that those committees were rife with corruption and conflicts of interest. Drake Removes Himself From Competition for 2022 Grammy Awards 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

“I think the reason that she goes from agreeing with the system to not is because of the corruption of the system,” Brooks says over the phone. Orange Is the New Black stars: 'I couldn't watch. I had to turn away' 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Boundary-pushing in its day, the play still has plenty to say — about tyranny and greed and corruption, sure, but more potently about our culture’s long history of race-based violence and degradation. Review: Emperor Jones, Fearsome and Fearful in a Roaring Revival 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

But Tubal-Cain is also something of a humanist, or at least a proponent of the idea that humanity, for all its cravenness and corruption, might be worth saving. Movie Review: Russell Crowe Confronts Life’s Nasty Weather in ‘Noah’ 2014-03-27T18:05:40Z

Padilha told Reuters this month that he hoped to remind viewers that rampant corruption in Brazil was not the fault of any particular politician or party. Netflix series on corruption scandal angers Brazil's former president 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

The corruption, the graft, the waste — these are the least of Washington’s irritations. ‘The Hopefuls’ captures everything we love to hate about Washington 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

You know, with the urban decay, ethnic tension, police corruption scandals and people smoking on subway platforms? The Week Ahead: July 24 ? 30 2011-07-22T18:07:05Z

Mr. Abramoff’s crooked tentacles extended in so many directions that you get lost in the film’s sprawling maze of corruption as it jumps from one scandal to another, without differentiating their relative importance. | 'Casino Jack and the United States of Money': Alex Gibney?s Documentary About Jack Abramoff 2010-05-06T22:58:00Z

This could be a clever experiment in political alchemy: by transforming a corruption scandal into a sex scandal, it puts the focus on the woman’s behavior instead of the money trail. Why a 'Blame the Woman' defense works so well for troubled politicians 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Performances amid the rubble reignited a sense of community and attempted to rehabilitate classical music as inherently humanistic, universal and uplifting after its supposed “corruption” by propagandistic use during the Nazi era. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

As George Grosz tells Gunther, “My themes as an artist are despair, disillusionment, hate, fear, corruption, hypocrisy and death.” Philip Kerr’s Last Novel and a New Series From Alexander McCall Smith 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

She was charged with corruption related to her husband’s time in office, but was never convicted and, in 2010, was elected to the House of Representatives. Special Report: Travel Asia: In Manila, ‘Livin’ La Vida Imelda!’ 2012-10-12T23:07:41Z

News stories about corruption, conspiracies and back channels rattle our nerves daily. Lies, leaks and threats to our liberties: A new thriller captures the moment 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

A gripping feature film scattered among the documentaries and set in Haiti a few years ago, Raoul Peck’s “Moloch Tropical” is a satirically edged melodrama about the corruption of absolute power. Film: Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2010-06-11T04:51:00Z

To that end, they interpret massive corruption and even war crimes charitably. Review: In ‘The Emperor,’ Apologizing for a Corrupt Regime 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Broadhurst had a keen eye for the verities of everyday corruption. Review: In ‘The Man of the Hour,’ Back-Room Politics Is Ageless 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

And more than 100 Hollywood publicity firms called on the association to “eradicate the longstanding exclusionary ethos and pervasive practice of discriminatory behavior, unprofessionalism, ethical impropriety and alleged financial corruption.” The Golden Globes: How to Watch the Show’s Rehabilitation Attempt 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

The rapper writes songs about corruption and social injustice and is involved in a pro-democracy movement in the Moroccan kingdom. Morocco court convicts rapper for police song 2012-05-11T17:03:11Z

Maybe one of Hall’s and van Hove’s points is that Chayefsky’s jeremiad 40 years ago against the corporate corruption of the country remains valid. Review | Bryan Cranston is stellar in the stage version of ‘Network.’ The rest, not so much. 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

"Nobody wants to spend money on something now associated with waste and corruption." Days before World Cup, much of Brazil just not in the mood 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Zuma was forced to quit after South Africa’s ruling party, embarrassed by corruption scandals, turned against him. South Africa’s Zuma will head to recording studio in 2019 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

We spent most of the season watching the show set up institutionalized graft and greed, telling a layered narrative about crime and corruption and a city in decay. 'Daredevil' Season 1 finale review: King of Hell's Kitchen 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Comedians attack power and corruption and things that feel wrong. Judd Apatow: Pulling 'Interview' points to 'dark future' in Hollywood 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

The character of crooked politician “Don” Conrado Sol is a fictional construct, embodying the political corruption in Mexico that has allowed the likes of El Chapo to flourish. El Chapo: Netflix's gruesome, gripping answer to The Wire 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, the plot of this propulsive, engaging novel is not about the corruption in South Carolina or the crisis of conscience that catches up with Andre. Review | Steven Wright’s ‘Coyotes of Carthage’ pulls back the curtain on how democracy works. It isn’t pretty. 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

After all, official corruption is endemic in African countries like Zimbabwe and Tanzania, where trophy hunting is common. Outraged British public forces American billionaire Stan Kroenke to drop plans for bloodsport channel 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

Photograph: PA Wire/Press Association Images 'Our world is full of hypocrisy, corruption and greed. The pranksters who gave George Osborne a GCSE maths book 2012-08-21T19:00:01Z

“The Birth of a Nation,” one of the founding documents of Hollywood cinema, is far less liberal, by any measure, than the “Ring,” an epic of godly greed and corruption. A Closer Look at Wagner and #OscarsSoWhite 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

The corruption, the bribes – we simply want to leave. WikiLeaks: Tunisia knew its rulers were debauched. But leaks still had impact 2011-02-02T19:59:00Z

“And I am a canary. I am half poisoned already from government corruption and gaming of the system and legal system by governments,” Ms. Westwood said. Vivienne Westwood Dresses Like a Canary for Julian Assange 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

“I only know that it is mixed, that you cannot separate good from bad, that wisdom, courage and benevolence exist alongside knavery, greed and stupidity; heroism and fortitude alongside vainglory, cruelty and corruption.” Barbara W. Tuchman, Folly and the Stream of History 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

"Those who depend on corruption are not easily going to go along with reforms," said a Supplies Ministry official on condition of anonymity. Egypt's Sisi scores early success with smart cards for bread subsidies 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Eyre calls the addiction crisis “a man-made disaster fueled by corporate greed and corruption.” How Painkiller Pushers Took Over Coal Country 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

Nassar fled to Syria in 1994 after federal prosecutors in Atlanta charged him with taking part in a bribery and corruption scheme. Fugitives enrich themselves from abroad 2011-11-02T14:00:00Z

Within hours, the couple were arrested, he for masterminding a corruption conspiracy that netted him as much as $1 million in bribes and implicated his wife and several county officials and businessmen. Billy Martin: Washington’s go-to lawyer when you’re in trouble. Real trouble. 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

The band satirizes corruption and dysfunction in a nation it loves and laments. Venezuelan ska band leaves crisis-hit country for US tour 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

Joseph Bruno, the longtime majority leader of the New York Senate, recounts the uncivil war between himself and Mr. Spitzer with obvious relish, although he himself ended up convicted of federal corruption charges in 2009. Film: Client 9 and Other Interested Parties 2010-10-23T02:33:00Z

This new six-part series seeks to shed a light on corruption in the food industry. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Day of the Dead: Bloodline’ and ‘Before I Wake’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Austin also insists that the state’s criminal probe into corruption at Vinci City Hall will surely fail. 'True Detective' recap: Brush with death sparks new life 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Rosi also won the Golden Lion at the Venice in 1963 for "Hands over the City", a drama about political corruption in Naples. Film director Rosi, who explored Italy's dark side, dies at 92 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z

“There is polling that shows — it doesn’t matter whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat or an independent — you really dislike corruption,” Lieu says. Is this Washington’s golden age of grift? Or politics as usual? 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

All presidential candidates must disclose their personal financial holdings to the Office of Governmental Ethics, a step mandated by the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, passed to discourage real or perceived corruption. Some Romney investments not disclosed 2012-01-26T20:14:00Z

Prakazrel “Pras” Michel faces allegations in a civil forfeiture complaint that he participated in a scheme to try to influence a Justice Department investigation into corruption involving a Malaysian investment fund. Ex-Fugees member Pras fights US forfeiture complaint 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Now, Iles returns with “Cemetery Road,” an ambitious stand-alone thriller that, like its predecessors, is both an absorbing crime story and an in-depth exploration of grief, betrayal and corruption in a small Southern community. Review | Greg Iles bounced back from a catastrophic car crash with a monumental trilogy. He’s not done. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

There is no debating Hank's absolute selfishness or his corruption, and there's no denying how lovable he is despite his callousness. "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

Then, as corruption rose under Compaoré, fewer people had money to spend on entertainment. When Burkina Faso Vibrated with a New Culture 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

As Chernow puts it, “It is sadly ironic that Grant’s presidency became synonymous with corruption, since he himself was impeccably honest.” President Clinton Looks Back at President Grant 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Yet this good deed is interrupted when Sandayo leaks information about government corruption to Ahmed, turning a regional story into an international political scandal. Going AWOL in Africa’s Largest City 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Felipe, who became king last month after his father Juan Carlos abdicated, wants his family to repair the Spanish royal reputation tarnished since his brother-in-law was hit with corruption charges in 2011. Spain's Felipe VI to keep royals out of private sector 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

For Congress, Lessig notes that the framers were deeply concerned about corruption, but rarely focused on the evils of individual quid pro quos. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Indeed, some of the newspapers are relentless watchdogs, offering a constant flow of investigations into corruption which haunt the ANC government. Clash of the Booker titans 2013-05-23T13:57:00Z

Which brings us to Pinkie, one of the most unlikely, but unforgettable, gangsters in English literature, whose descent into corruption draws the reader into the narrative. Brighton Rock's themes are too big for the screen 2011-02-07T12:04:15Z

The corruption that afflicts Vietnam's one-party government, along with the growing economy, are major factors in the disappearance of natural habitat and endangered species. Vietnam’s Empty Forests 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

The happiness survey – officially the World Happiness Report from the Sustainable Development Solutions Network – looks at factors including per capita GDP, life expectancy, social support and “perceptions corruption.” Heaven knows we’re miserable now: Reports reveal just how unhappy Americans are — and for good reasons 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Unusually for a British political drama, there's nothing much humorous about Paul Abbott's suspenseful story - it's a gratifyingly meaty tale of corruption and subterfuge that remains credible until its final overstretched scenes. Six to watch: political dramas 2010-04-29T12:06:00Z

Early on, he pockets a few gold bars from an armed robbery for himself, though this blatant corruption is neither explained nor explored. The Sweeney – review 2012-06-27T00:38:03Z

Within a few years both clubs desert New York for California and DeLillo uses this moment to show something about American corruption. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

The jaunty, old-fashioned bluegrass bounce and close-harmony choruses of “Watch It Fall” belie the bitter resignation of the lyrics, as the flat-picking guitar virtuoso Billy Strings sings about converging catastrophes: inequality, corruption, global warming. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

The titular monarch of Mr. Jacobs’s contribution, “Seeking the Monkey King,” appears to be the American greed and corruption that have sent the director into an agony of despair, if happily not a paralyzing one. Critic?s Notebook: ?Views From the Avant-Garde? Film Series at Lincoln Center 2011-10-06T22:58:09Z

Haiti is a poor, aid-dependent country rich in political instability, corruption and disaster. The TV Watch: ‘Regards Croisés’ Offers Haiti Needed Comic Relief on TV 2012-07-10T20:51:35Z

But Belgium's Prince Emmanuel de Merode, director of Virunga National Park, is adamant that mining for oil will destroy the region's rich nature and wildlife, and corruption would prevent locals from sharing in the profits. Netflix's 'Virunga' uncovers Congo's fight to protect resources 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

It was, she said: “So meaningful, so moving, elevating voices of truth, helping them rise above the forces of corruption, violence, and chaos.” Perspective | ‘Can you imagine anyone other than Trump?’ Time magazine published a perfectly fitting answer. 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The consistory, usually a joyful event, is taking place under a cloud because it follows a spate of leaked letters alleging corruption in the Vatican. Pope leaves stamp on Church future with new cardinals 2012-02-18T11:53:00Z

The act wasn’t quite as defiant as it sounds; the church door served as sort of a community bulletin board — but the strong arguments Luther made about Church corruption were revolutionary. Visiting Germany’s Lutherland during 500th anniversary 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Someone said to me, now is a great time to be in local corruption, because there’s no one looking. Mark Ruffalo urges pope to use his new film to heal sex abuse victims 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

His constant praise of his own cleverness might be worse than corruption. ‘Beyond Outrage’: a yakuza sequel for Takeshi Kitano fans 2014-01-16T22:01:16Z

Yet Netflix’s “House of Cards,” which featured a plot about Chinese corruption, was a huge hit in China, with Chinese officials expressing delight at its debased portrait of American democracy. CBS Censors “The Good Fight” for a Musical Short About China 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

The film also highlights wider issues, such as police corruption and problems with defense contractors hired to help fight wars or rebuild countries. Whistleblower's tale has no Hollywood ending 2011-08-02T20:44:20Z

It echoes some of contemporary China's own problems, such as corruption, money, ambiguity and morality. Mystery (Fucheng mishi) - review 2012-11-20T14:02:30Z

Like last year’s “Leviathan,” also from Russia, “The Fool” is a merciless exploration of top-down municipal corruption, with a towering performance by Nataliya Surkova as the imperious mayor. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

He conceived a novel of confinement and corruption, a web of debtors and creditors. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 3: Little Dorrit 2012-02-03T18:42:02Z

Gamache accepted the job to find the source of corruption within the academy: Idealistic cadets are being warped into brutish police officers, quick to intimidate and even terrorize the population. There’s a bit of Nancy Drew in Louise Penny’s masterful ‘A Great Reckoning’ 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

There would be five sons in three hours, including “Señor Presidente,” about corruption in Mexico, and the rousing “La Bamba,” played at a speedy clip with only 10 minutes to spare. Sharing Music Across the U.S.-Mexico Border’s Metal Fence 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z

Across the Arab world, slogans ask for jobs, education, ending corruption, and accountability, but they are only a fleeting sight for most Americans. Zero Dark Thirty and Argo don't do justice to Arabs 2013-02-20T13:00:00Z

The corruption, perversion and violence shown in “Blue Velvet” are indeed extreme. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

As the commission found, “Dowd, like other officers, reported that brutality strengthened the bonds of loyalty and silence among officers and thus fostered corruption tolerance.” Review: ‘The Seven Five,’ a Documentary About a Corrupt New York Cop 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

AM Tonight, the throbbing boil of police corruption ruptures messily, as Stella receives vital new evidence packed with clues about the identity of the killer. TV highlights 03/06/2013 2013-06-03T06:00:11Z

Eventually, this corruption rots the establishment out from the inside to the point that quality falls off and customers notice. James Beard Awards Apply a New Yardstick: Good Behavior 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

She has campaigned for years on the need to address corruption and poverty, and advance women's status. Virginity for sale: inside Cambodia's shocking trade 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Complicating the problem: court decisions over the past few decades making it tougher to win corruption cases. Is this Washington’s golden age of grift? Or politics as usual? 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

“We are against the corruption that is costing the future of our young people,” said Maria Badyrova, a protester in Moscow. Thousands of Russians protest Vladimir Putin’s government 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

The movie’s multifaceted plot works conspicuously superficial variations on the themes of hypocrisy and corruption, starting with the deteriorating state of Romeo and Magda’s marriage. The Moralizing Pseudo-Realism of Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

When James B. Stewart’s groundbreaking narrative about insider trading, “Den of Thieves,” was published in 1991, it pulled back the curtain on a culture of corruption that pervaded high finance. An Insider-Trading Tale That Reads Like a Thriller 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

“His corruption goes to the heart of legalized bribery in Washington and the ‘money disease’ that has infected us,” Mr. Gibney said. Film: Alex Gibney?s ?Casino Jack and the United States of Money? 2010-04-24T02:39:00Z

The coup began Compaoré’s twenty-seven-year rule, marked by the elimination of Sankara’s supporters, close ties to the French, as well as rampant corruption and the siphoning off of the country’s resources. When Burkina Faso Vibrated with a New Culture 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

In both cases, casual corruption, usually obscured by several layers of secrecy and legal trickery, was finally laid bare. The College-Admissions Scandal and the Banality of Scamming 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

In 1774, one of Britain’s wealthiest traders was summoned to parliament to account for profligacy and corruption. From ancient castles to mega-yachts: what history teaches us about the super-rich 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Now Corcoran and Clark are just names associated with art, not scandal, and uplift, not corruption. An art loan from Bill Cosby draws the Smithsonian into a national debate

Where the 2021 film “There Is No Evil” portrayed the moral absurdities of capital punishment, “A Man of Integrity” takes a broader view, examining how corruption has permeated everyday Iranian life. ‘A Man of Integrity’ Review: Fighting Dirty 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Fela's protest songs, such as Zombie and International Thief Thief, raged against government and corporate corruption, looting and exploitation of Nigeria's poor. Fela Kuti musical moves to Nigeria 2011-03-04T12:57:01Z

He displays the petty corruption of the local police force and the corruption of higher levels of law enforcement by the new business interests proliferating in the country. “The Burial of Kojo,” Reviewed: A Boldly Lyrical Portrait of a Young Ghanaian Girl 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Intertwined with this family tragedy is the image of contemporary China – a butchering society that feeds on greed, deception, corruption and material decadence. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-18T21:00:03Z

There are so many heated wires in Volume Two, about the corruption that the president spawns wherever he turns, that the reader will burn his or her fingers. The Mueller Report: A Thorny, Patriotic Addition to a Curious American Bookshelf 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

The saint-making process has not been immune to corruption and mismanagement, with accusations that the system allowed for favoritism for causes with rich backers. Mother Teresa borne to sainthood by complex, mysterious process 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

He said, "It's ironic that at its beginning, the Voice did exactly what we're doing today" - opposing corruption and social wrongdoing. Protesters: Village Voice helps sell kids for sex 2012-03-29T23:09:08Z

Considering this a moral corruption, several of the students initiate a discreet rebellion. ‘Servants’ Review: Fighting for Purity of Faith 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

She's on the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which describes itself as helping to defend and support journalism "focused on exposing mismanagement, corruption, and law-breaking in government." Filmmaker takes center stage in surveillance story 2013-06-14T06:53:07Z

Puri plays the lawyer father of the protagonist in "Actor in Law", a movie which explores social issues like corruption and gender discrimination. Bollywood should make more 'socially conscious films', says Om Puri 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Precisely the kind of PR nightmare a police department with a reputation for corruption does not need to contend with, in other words. "The Red Line" builds incredible drama around a third-rail topic: racism 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

Stafford Smith concedes there is "probably" less corruption in the British justice system, and that defendants are better funded. Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity' 2012-07-08T19:00:02Z

The character, a teacher, is propelled to the presidency after he goes on a tirade against corruption, which is filmed by his students in a video that goes viral. Zelenskyy Presses Hollywood for an Appearance at the Oscars 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

The drop in activity coincided with a reorganization of the PLA and Mr. Xi’s crackdown on corruption within the Communist Party. ‘Dawn of the Code War’ Review: The Cyber Threat Reconsidered 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z

The right-wing media tarred her as a fount of corruption, and Trump’s secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said nothing as his own employee’s reputation was “trashed.” In ‘Lessons From the Edge,’ How an Ambassador to Ukraine Became a Casualty of the Trump Administration 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Ewing was a business cheat, faithless husband and bottomless well of corruption. 'Dallas' star Larry Hagman dies in Texas 2012-11-24T15:26:09Z

Because of the publicity and the immense scale of the earthquake, it was a bit of a “click” moment for people realizing that this is the reason people talk about adoption corruption. How the Christian right perverts adoption 2013-05-04T21:00:00Z

An unseen Arthur Miller drama about corruption in New York's docks in the 1950s will have its world premiere next year. Miller drama set for world premiere 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

In an ongoing dispute about the independence of City Hall's top corruption investigator, Mayor 's chief city attorney says the inspector general ultimately reports to the mayor. Attorney: City watchdog reports to mayor 2011-11-01T11:55:00Z

The Everyman, in conjunction with Northampton's Royal and Derngate theatre, will also present The Hook, a previously unseen Arthur Miller drama about corruption in New York's docks in the 1950s. Educating Rita to return to Liverpool 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

The new French film “Rogue City” tramples it, positing that corruption is pervasive and we live in a hopeless, brutal world from which there is no escape. ‘Rogue City’ Review: An Action Movie Skimping on Action 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

The movie is not Wes Anderson’s version of “Spotlight,” in which humbly dressed reporters heroically take on power, injustice and corruption. ‘The French Dispatch’ Review: Remember Magazines? 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Gomes said the "social fractures" of the colonial era were still visible in Brazilian society and modern-day examples of corruption included companies not paying their taxes. Film about colonial era explains modern Brazil, director says 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

Still, an account of the corruption engendered by endless war that doesn’t include the role of a complicit media is incomplete. James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price’ 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

It is accused of falling victim to modern 's ills – greed, vulgarity and corruption. Bolshoi rocked by scandal and intrigue 2011-03-22T19:52:49Z

“But we stand in the way of the corruption,” Ms. Suthimongkol said, explaining her group’s efforts to change the country’s laws so that it is now easier for hill tribe people to acquire citizenship. A Vacation With a Purpose: Fighting Trafficking in Thailand 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Now, she has power and status and even the vote, but with each week, she sees more clearly the morass of corruption and deceit that makes the country run. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Women's suffrage arrives 2010-11-22T06:01:00Z

Most of all this is a moral tale of an America forged in greed and corruption. Boardwalk Empire: a slow-burner with a fierce flame 2012-09-28T14:15:00Z

But there was always an ambivalence — Iraqis were caught between the American occupation, with all its horrors, and the corruption of their own rulers. These Artists Refuse to Forget the Wars in Iraq 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

There are fewer quips in these artworks than dense layers of information tracing an inordinately complex web of capital, culture and corruption. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

With issues such as corruption, climate disruption and racism blighting the country's horizon, her characters wonder if the golden age is behind them. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Moroccan rapper Mouad Belghouat, known as El-Haqed, or "The Enraged" was convicted on May 11 of "showing contempt" to public servants with his song "Dogs of the State" about police corruption. Morocco hosts world's artists, imprisons its own 2012-05-26T09:31:03Z

However, politicians and military rulers squandered billions of dollars through the corruption choking the nation's potential. Luxury brands target Nigeria's wealthy elite 2012-03-22T10:37:32Z

“Brazil is very interesting as a case study, in the sense that the corruption is not in the politics,” he said. Brazil’s Jaw-Dropping Corruption Scandal Comes to Netflix 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Directed at the fluttering pace of an anxious heartbeat, this production for Mr. Donnellan’s Cheek by Jowl company dispenses with literal scenery and even props in unfolding the story of Macbeth’s headlong slide into corruption. | 'Macbeth': Ambition Doth Curse All Makes of Men 2011-04-06T21:38:26Z

It’s a well-run, world-class city but with a history of favor swapping and corruption, which people accept as the way it is, and that dichotomy was interesting to me. Television: Reform? Forget It, Boys, It?s Chicago 2011-02-06T02:08:20Z

“All My Sons,” is a play about responsibility, corruption and the nexus, as Ms. Bening put it, “between a booming economy and bloodshed.” How Annette Bening Puts It All Onstage. But Keeps Something for Herself. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

But the hopes for a special relationship were derailed by Britain’s role as a luxurious sanctuary for powerful Putin opponents as well as other wealthy Russians seeking protection from their country’s rampant corruption and lawlessness. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Now operating outside Russia, the group has continued running investigations into government corruption, even with its leader behind bars. Ukraine war recasts ‘Navalny’ as a prequel to Putin’s aims 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Unlike “Leviathan,” “The Fool” doesn’t refer directly to Mr. Putin, but its depressing portrayal of oligarchical privilege, endemic corruption and lawlessness in an unidentified town is every bit as scathing. Movie Listings for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

It opened in the Central City neighbourhood in April, but a month later was mired in a corruption scandal involving Mayfield – a multi-Grammy-award-winner and one of the city’s poster boys – and his business partner. Back on song: New Orleans 10 years after Katrina 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

He delights in news stories about corruption, scandals and suspicious activities. Modern Love: About That Rustle in the Bushes 2011-06-16T19:38:02Z

By 1883, the Times was railing against "the corruption of Boxing Day morals through the influence of the music hall". Still behind you! 2010-12-23T15:00:04Z

The Friars of Ascension, led by a priest with a taste for luxury, could very well stand in for the corruption and coverup that lurked behind the piety of a Pope Benedict-era conservative bent. On rebooted ‘Exorcist,’ a new way to get rid of demons: Hugging it out 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Aspera is, of course, sinister, a breeding ground for corruption, where the wealthy indulge their darkest desires. Girl Hunter or Girl Hunted? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

The woman behind this, Cha Moon-sook, is now a chief justice of the Supreme Court, gaining her power and influence through corruption. Need more payback? 9 revenge-themed K-dramas to binge after "Beef" 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

Blagojevich was convicted last summer of 17 corruption counts for several attempted shakedowns, including an attempt to sell an appointment to the U.S. Blago faces tough odds on leniency bid 2011-12-06T10:13:00Z

It’s a story of political corruption—Souleiman and his colleagues are being cheated of their pay by a well-connected boss. Highlights from the Third Week of the New York Film Festival 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Does Jeremiah’s insistence that societal corruption is reflected in the systematic misemployment of words really amount to “a critique of language”? The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z

Because, despite the city of Baltimore – with its cronyism, its corruption, its violence, its ineptitude – doing its level best to disprove this notion, policing still matters to him. Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

And things that undo dynasties include ineffective leaders, infighting and moral corruption allowed by unchecked power. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: The Full Targaryen 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Behind the mask of sexual Victorianism, racial striving, up-by-the-bootstrap faith, hard work and service, Tuskegee was, in his eyes, a den of corruption. Ralph Ellison’s Letters Reveal a Complex Philosopher of Black Expression 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

He watched it grow from a village to a city on the edge of greatness but he saw the dark corruption that beat at its centre. Can John Banville resuscitate Philip Marlowe? 2012-08-09T11:44:54Z

There are unmistakable gothic elements in Ewa’s tale, which is to some extent a lurid fable of wronged innocence, irrational cruelty and wild coincidence set in a landscape of betrayal, brutality and corruption. ‘The Immigrant,’ With Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

During the play’s 2 hours and 30 minutes, free market watchwords — not to mention, religious piety, racism, judicial corruption and well-intentioned liberals — all come in for a drubbing. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

His images of corruption, violence and toxic masculinity ring all too familiar in America today. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

That’s clever, of course, but it also taps into widely understood themes concerning corruption, politics and power. "Cobra Kai" returns: Will the "no mercy" way of fighting win? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

The strongest aspect of this marvellous film is that Langan never lets it become simply a picaresque portrait of charming incompetence, comic corruption and exotic scenery. African Railway and The Edible Guardian 2010-04-29T07:00:00Z

"The Tusk That Did the Damage" delves into the unusual world of the ivory trade, corruption and conservation within south India. Novelist Tania James talks rogue elephants, India and conservation 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Italy bubbles with emotion, corruption, traffic jams, strikes, religious holidays and crowds. What’s new in Italy for 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Much that Critchley muses on about soccer could be equally applicable to other team sports, and he doesn’t shy away from soccer’s long history of hooliganism, corruption and sexism. From Politics to Scandals, Sports Seem to Speak to Our Times 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

And like Ai Weiwei, he is utterly fearless in his determination to use his art to expose the corruption, nepotism and greed all around him. Piers Morgan is our greatest living artist 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

I found no mention of any of that history — more than a decade of corporate fraud, malfeasance and corruption — in the Philadelphia branch of the Wells Fargo History Museum. Perspective | For Wells Fargo, history is an asset. And a useful distraction. 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

“When you look at public perceptions of corruption, it has already failed.” At Hunter Biden’s Art Show, Line, Color and Questions 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Prosecutor Alberto Nisman investigated the attack, and potential ties to government corruption, for nearly two decades, before he was found dead in a locked apartment the day before he was to reveal his findings. How true crime shifted its lens from the bad guys to the bad justice system 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

The most interesting aspect of Krist’s book is the battle between upright uptown reformers, who wished to rid New Orleans of sin and corruption, and downtown denizens, who relished the town’s permissive mores. Book Review Podcast: 'Empire of Sin' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Both shows also feature an embattled hero who takes on corruption and conspiracy. | 'The Bridge': Aaron Douglas Stars in a New Police Series on CBS 2010-07-09T22:24:00Z

The satanic music panic is understood by moralizing critics and worried parents alike as the corruption of children animated as much by commercial motives as by ill will or evil. Momo Is as Real as We’ve Made Her 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

And there's so much talk about corruption in Mexico, but it's also huge here in the States -- just on different levels. "Miss Bala" puts human face on Mexico's drug war 2012-01-20T22:18:13Z

It showed only this flattened idea of Baltimore as: drugs, poverty, criminality, corruption, violence. ‘They Conflated “The Wire” With Reality’ 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Signs of at least a materially good life is there, but so is a corruption of spirit. Everything Must Go: Will Ferrell, at Home in Carver Country 2011-05-12T09:10:00Z

The stench of hypocrisy and corruption permeates these pages, and the foul odor wafts through the halls of Congress, where Rep. Richie Langdon of Brooklyn is a feckless, weirdly likable, moral coward. ‘Golden Age’ review: Jane Smiley brings America into the age of terror 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

In January, the prime minister was cleared of corruption over the sum. Murky Malaysian money trail that funded The Wolf of Wall Street – report 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

The director Alexander Nanau began looking for answers that November, the same month in which Romania was convulsed by mass protests that pinned the fire on government corruption. ‘Collective’ Review: When Tragedy Consumes a Nation 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Its conclusion — that in the moral quagmire of war and its aftermath, human trafficking and corruption are collateral damage — is unutterably depressing. | 'The Whistleblower': American in Bosnia Discovers the Horrors of Human Trafficking 2011-08-04T21:18:52Z

Romania has a problem with corruption, from petty tourist shakedowns to high officials’ malfeasance, and Bucharest, its capital, seems somewhat bereft. ‘God Was on Vacation’: A Visit With a Long-Lost Cousin in Romania Is a Holocaust Lesson 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

His Nazi picture, he says, shows "a total corruption of beauty". Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z

The charges of fraud and money laundering are separate from another ongoing investigation in Monaco into corruption charges made by Mr. Bouvier against Mr. Rybolovlev. Charges Against Dealer Dropped in Art Dispute With Russian Oligarch 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Pratfalls and sendups ensue, but also a stinging critique of police corruption, by one of Italy's greatest playwrights. Strawberry Theatre Workshop opens season of anarchists, activism 2012-07-05T20:53:04Z

Among them was Putin’s onetime main adversary Boris Berezovsky, who waged a long-running campaign to undermine his former ally by backing opposition parties, investigating corruption and funding a colorful network of Kremlin critics. Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

But he acknowledged that the scandal shocked him into confronting the ubiquity of corruption. Wang Xiaofang exposes world of Chinese bureaucracy 2011-02-25T19:19:44Z

They are World War One drama Parade's End, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, police corruption drama, Line of Duty and The Hollow Crown, a series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays. Olympic art up for South Bank award 2013-02-06T17:35:47Z

They are also the sons of Krodha, "a mental state similar to wrath or fury, and foster corruption and chaos in the lives of their victims," per an explanation from "Bloody Disgusting." "It Lives Inside": When a horror movie defangs its demon with poor metaphors 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z

They were minted for a military commander sacked by the Romans for corruption but proclaimed emperor by his soldiers. Somerset and Edinburgh Museums to keep archaeological treasure 2011-03-21T01:01:01Z

And yet, in the process of illustrating this corruption, the show also received criticism for the way it presented violence against prisoners, especially inmates of color. Orange is the New Black: season six's biggest villain? The prison system 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

So it is with reading: A book’s or poem’s effects play out over days, and weeks, and years, through their ongoing interaction — interruption, corruption — with and of other texts and contexts. Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Stevens supposedly said that the amendment was “passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.” Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z

By contrast, Rothschild’s first novel, “The Improbability of Love,” is an exuberant, uneven satire of consumption and corruption in the London art world. ‘The Improbability of Love’ paints a romantic comedy about the art world 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

These so-called “naked” officials are seen as especially prone to corruption. As war on corruption mounts, China’s rich flee to America 2014-02-09T22:00:00Z

To make matters worse, Mr. le Carré does a truly maladroit job of dramatizing this story of corruption and governmental intrigue. Books of The Times: ‘A Delicate Truth,’ by John le Carré 2013-04-30T18:00:41Z

A man who wrote gripping stories against a background of political corruption and violence against women. In search of a good read | John Crace 2010-03-17T13:30:00Z

And maybe there’s some corruption, and something about blue diamonds? True Detective: is it OK to admit that no one knows what's going on? 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

“The Russian Revolution — against the tyranny, corruption, and, not least, incompetence of czarism — sparked soaring hopes for a new world of abundance, social justice and peace,” Mr. Kotkin writes. ‘Stalin: Paradoxes of Power’ by Stephen Kotkin 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

“A family fortune introduced an element of corruption,” we are told early on. Lionel Shriver Imagines Imminent Economic Collapse, With Cabbage at $20 a Head 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

His rise to power in "Servant of the People" is completely accidental, the result of a rant about political corruption that one of his students surreptitiously films and posts online. "Servant of the People" is an example of a politician living up to the promise he plays out on TV 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

"Veep" found its comedy in exposing the sheer idiocy and corruption within the most familiar concept of structural power, the federal government. "Veep" creator on trading the Oval Office for lawless space in HBO's wacky comedy "Avenue 5" 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

As well as a fiesta of lies, counterclaims, corruption and criminal intent, The People vs OJ Simpson is, most importantly, a riot of outstandingly unrealistic hair. Hair-raising stuff! A wig-by-wig analysis of The People vs OJ Simpson 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z

By the early 1920s, he could already sense that "the whole golden boom was in the air – its splendid generosities, its outrageous corruptions and the tortuous death struggle of the old America in prohibition". What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z

And she has recently wrapped the lead role in the HBO limited series “We Own This City,” in which she plays an F.B.I. agent investigating police corruption. Dagmara Dominczyk Burns Bright in ‘Succession’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

They were not impoverished, downtrodden or embittered, nor victims of repression or state corruption, nor thwarted in ambition, blocked at every turn. Restless – and its roots in the Cambridge spy ring 2012-12-21T22:55:09Z

“People were saying things like, ‘The biggest problem in China is the question of free speech,’ and things about economic scandals, corruption and how the press is not revealing the truth,” Mr. Veit said. Ibsen Play Is Canceled in China After Audience Criticizes Government 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

“I’m concerned about minorities, immigrants, corruption and security.” Artists and Critics Call for Culture ‘Strike’ on Inauguration Day 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

“I Am Wrath” is a revenge movie, and a buddy movie, and a spiritual-crisis movie, and a political corruption movie. Review: Vengeance, Thy Name Is Travolta, in ‘I Am Wrath’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Made within the conventional Bollywood model – songs, dance, romance, comedy and action all rolled into one – they deal with corruption and bureaucracy and, in the case of Aarakshan, the perennially difficult matter of caste. Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood's social conscience 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z

Wherever crime and corruption exist, readers long for someone to clean it up. Readers on the case: favorite mysteries set in Europe 2010-12-23T00:50:29Z

They get more extreme in each version, but you have the lawlessness, the inviting corruption, you have the bigotry and widespread discrimination. Why “Angels in America” endures: “Without gay people, you can’t tell the story of America” 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

A far-right religious extremist group, opposed to what they saw as the corruption in modern society, assassinated the president and slaughtered Congress, putting the blame on Islamic terrorists. Elisabeth Moss on The Handmaid’s Tale: 'It is a feminist story' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

They also say that the $2 million suit brought by Russell, which was made public just before the recent Globes show, lacks specifics to back up corruption charges. Another lawsuit for the group behind Golden Globes 2011-01-26T20:22:51Z

Chapel's complicity also injects a sliver of corruption into her otherwise benign persona, one with broader prominence in a future we've already seen. "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" shows how war muddles the moral compass of two of its crew 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

He is known for his political activism and vitriolic songs attacking social injustice, the monarchy and corruption. Morocco hosts world's artists, imprisons its own 2012-05-26T09:31:03Z

Against this backdrop, Grisham continues the rich literary tradition of Southern authors confronting a culture of white supremacy and its offspring: corruption, violence and a general cultural miasma. Review | John Grisham’s new novel wades into Mississippi’s racist past 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

The Willis Clan, a family band whose tragedy helped expose Illinois corruption, is also slated to perform. David Arquette to serve as grand marshal of McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Ik-hyun knows business and understands that corruption and greed rule the world they live in. Nameless Gangster: The Korean Mob Film Scorsese Would Be Proud Of 2012-04-10T10:45:25Z

The documentary does a good job of exposing a cesspool of corruption — members of the legal system and law enforcement agencies of all stripes are right in there alongside Bulger. 'Whitey' documentary indicts more than just James J. Bulger 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

The collaboration of French officials with the German occupiers was officially presented as a sort of aberration of individuals rather than a systemic corruption of French government and society. “Mr. Klein,” a Political Mystery of Mistaken Identity in Occupied Paris 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Thus the troubadour raises issues of interpretation, dissemination and perhaps even corruption that are ultimately the concerns of a creative artist. Past and Present, the Orpheus Myth Makes Us Rethink Music 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

“In her world, the law was upside down,” Lee says, explaining how corruption and cynicism had shredded the social fabric of North Korea. What to Read if You Want to Know More About North Korea 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

With that piece of narration, “Narcos” opens its second season with the same jaundiced tone, anticipating another series of events that will continue the cycle of violence and peel away more layers of corruption. ‘Narcos’ Season 2 Premiere: One Man’s Town 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Over the last month, Iraqis fed up with corruption and unemployment have staged the country’s largest protests since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. These Artists Refuse to Forget the Wars in Iraq 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

We have a duty to speak out clearly wherever we encounter injustice, cruelty or corruption — be it religious or secular — but we should do so dispassionately, accurately and fairly. The Blame Game: Karen Armstrong Talks About 'Fields of Blood' 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

He was tired of Brokeland, and of black people, and of white people, and of all their schemes and grudges, their frontings, hustles, and corruptions. Books of The Times: ‘Telegraph Avenue’ by Michael Chabon 2012-09-03T20:11:50Z

The same conditions that drove cholera — overcrowding, corruption, poor hygiene, expanded transportation — are what drive pandemics today. Review: ‘Pandemic’ Explains How to Host the Perfect Pathogen Party 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The playwrights all agreed that a woman’s perspective is a natural fit for Shakespeare’s play about power and corruption. How Female Playwrights Are Adapting, and Revamping, ‘Macbeth’ 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Crumbling from within, corruption and inter-purging among the elites; attacks from without; generational succession. ‘I’m Too Old to Be Scared by Much’: Margaret Atwood on Her ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Sequel 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

We might regard it as corruption, but the Italians don’t. A ?Mystery!? Series That Has (Gasp!) Actual Sunshine 2011-07-09T04:15:16Z

It is a narrative that resists naming names in connection with atrocities and corruption, and downplays or even suppresses the role of ethnicity in the mayhem of the past three years. From hope to horror 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

And a surprise hit was "Rod Blagojevich Superstar," a parody of "Jesus Christ Superstar," which mocked the helmet-haired former governor, then accused of federal corruption charges, as a greedy narcissist. Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past 2011-11-05T14:53:08Z

Even more unsettling was the department’s widespread censorship of works discussing civil rights issues, and works critical of prison conditions or corruption. Battling censorship behind bars 2013-05-07T13:00:00Z

Over the years, he learned about the ambitions, corruption and daily struggles seething just beneath its surface. Neither a bull nor a bear be 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

A personal essayist reporting on his anthropological fieldwork on corruption and hypocrisy, he combines the digressively meditative style of performance artist Spalding Gray with the gadfly relentlessness of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore. Trump as theater: Mike Daisey's one-man show, 'The Trump Card,' delves into the Donald phenomenon 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

“Macbeth,” which opened Sunday, is an anatomy of corruption, inscribing the path from power foretold to power seized to power clung to at all costs. ‘Macbeth’ Review: A Decent Man Turns Murderous Tyrant 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Murphy's defence is described as "noble cause corruption", in that he attempts to spin his abuse into a holy act, casting molestation as a form of sacrament. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God – review 2013-02-14T21:30:01Z

But Mr. Jha doesn’t stint on the melodrama, unabashedly pitting smirking corruption against heroic rectitude. | 'Aarakshan': A Battle for India?s Soul 2011-08-12T12:21:08Z

Both may well be true — the Karzai administration's ineffectuality and widespread corruption are staples of journalistic accounts — but reporters rarely set aside their sense of politesse to put such a fine point on the matter. 'The Taliban Shuffle' more relevant with bin Laden death 2011-05-06T19:32:00Z

It won praise for tackling the tough tasks of fighting corruption and terrorism and implementing widely lauded social and economic reforms. Celebrity sex-tape scandal grips Indonesia 2010-06-13T16:14:00Z

Buried side-by-side are Governors “Ma” and “Pa” Ferguson — “Ma” becoming the state’s first female chief executive following her husband’s ouster on corruption charges. The State That Foreshadows America’s Future 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

On his way out the door, after discussing a film about corruption that they hoped to work on together, he mentioned his cousin. A survivor’s life in music 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

I think oftentimes I bring the gift of disruption and corruption. Queens of the Stone Age, Redefining Itself to Renew Its Sound 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

It is a corruption of a corruption, which perhaps is a kind of purity. Our Masked Singers, Ourselves 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

To them, he is part of Virginia’s sad political descent from the birthplace of presidents to its present swirl of corruption and self-serving politicians — like Florida, but with four true seasons and lousier theme parks. Scandals usually end political careers. Not Joe Morrissey’s. 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

In the movie he complains that the media concentrates less on stories about corruption in Kenya than about “how weird I am.” Julian Assange and The Fifth Estate: Wiki Wacky Who? 2013-09-08T20:27:10Z

"The Ambassador": A Danish documentary that looks at corruption and exploitation in modern Africa. Weekend Preview: Puyallup Fair, Salmon Return Festival 2012-09-05T22:20:11Z

Desperate for a big story, he stumbles onto one about hacking and high-level corruption. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ review: Lisbeth Salander hacks on 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

But it’s also an opportunity to sing songs that call out the government for its corruption and repression, and to send politicians a simple message: punk, in Venezuela, is not dead. Reviving Venezuelan Punk, the Music of Revolution 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

Papadimitriou responds with some legalese, explaining that the question of free speech doesn't relate to the charges of impiety and corruption. Greeks Bearing Rifts: Socrates Goes Back on Trial 2011-05-17T11:20:00Z

Anger is high over the perceived corruption and aloofness of elected leaders in the country of 3.8 million people, which will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Oct. Vanessa Redgrave premiers documentary on Bosnia labor rights 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

Neighbors accuse her of every kind of corruption. A Mexican Novel Conjures a Violent World Tinged With Beauty 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

This is a form of corruption where resources are "captured" by a few powerful individuals to the detriment of the wider community. South Africa’s small-scale fishers have been marginalized since apartheid 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Though "Rampart" was inspired by real-life revelations of widespread corruption in LAPD's Rampart division in the 1990s, Brown is a fictional character, with a life as complex as any epic novel. 'Rampart': Cop drama is dark, feverish and compelling 2012-03-01T20:47:07Z

With the contacts and experience I'd be bringing to the project, we could take a serious, in-depth look at corruption, injustice and hardship across the globe. David Miliband's TV future: Strictly ? something 2011-01-09T21:00:01Z

One could consider the film overmoralising in that it conflates sexual freedom with corruption, but it has a great subversive power and is still banned in many Arab countries. The 10 best Arab films 2013-07-06T15:00:00Z

Korean dramas, or K-dramas, are South Korean TV shows spanning romantic comedies, historical epics, thrillers, supernatural fantasies and often touch upon class, high jinks, plot twists, fate, and corruption. These Black women are obsessed with Korean TV dramas. Here’s why. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

“Seems like as good a time as any,” he said, “to be transported to Marseilles and get enveloped by the fine wine, food and corruption of the Mediterranean.” Great reads for the armchair traveler 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

“Not only are corruption and violence employed to keep the populace in line; so too are the self-deceptions of the Russians themselves, who are manipulated through an ideological pastiche of nationalist, religious and cultural values.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

The show is about politics as played today — the cynicism, corruption and hard-core strategies employed by those looking to hang on to power — and Grammer's character is worlds away from his Emmy-winning performance on "Frasier." Kelsey Grammer, the Boss of Chicago 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z

But the movie strongly implies that their feud was also a macho cockfight that began at a high-level meeting at which he offended Putin by bringing up corruption in the Kremlin. 'Khodorkovsky': a Russian oligarch thrown into a Siberian prison 2012-03-22T20:05:05Z

That corruption is so bad in Baltimore that I couldn't even do a drama. "Judas and the Black Messiah" filmmakers on exposing how the FBI hunted 1960s Black activiststs 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Much more cogent and coherent than Bahrani’s At Any Price, which investigated the ethical dilemma of a farmer driven to corruption, the new movie sets up a Faustian bargain with the Mephistopehelia Carver. REVIEW: Spider-Man Has a Housing Crisis in 99 Homes 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

It's the ideal environment for crime drama because there's no need to waste valuable time on creating a backstory of corruption and intrigue. Rewind TV: Zen; Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent; Silent Witness ? TV review 2011-01-09T00:05:37Z

And then they realize it's not enough to make a living, so they turn to corruption to fulfill their needs. "A Cop Movie" director: "Being a cop involves performance. You put on a costume and play a part" 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

In between songs, Kuti railed against African corruption to an appreciative audience. The Big Chill: day three ? review 2011-08-08T12:45:29Z

Like David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” King’s play, receiving its U.S. premiere at Studio Theatre, is a comedy of petty corruptions, activated by the base impulses that can drive the lust for a buck. Review | ‘White Pearl’ is an amusing take on the beauty business. But watch out — things get ugly. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

The former governor was found guilty last year on 18 counts of corruption, including charges he tried to sell or trade President 's old U.S. Patti Blagojevich, daughters make prison visit 2012-05-15T04:39:00Z

“That’s a disturbing admission, partly because of its overt, abrasive corruption,” Colbert responded. Colbert on the texture of Trump’s butt (really): “My best guess is either cold pizza or bumpy decorative gourd” 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

“I’m actually glad you threw in a little common everyday bureaucratic corruption to try and bring another flavor to this deluge of depravity,” Stewart said. Jon Stewart: Senate Torture Report Is a 'Deluge of Depravity' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

The investigation by the Garda, Ireland’s national police force, was dogged by charges of incompetence and corruption. The Case of the Artist and the True-Crime Documentary 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Blagojevich faces a federal indictment alleging political corruption while in office. Blagojevich fired from `Celebrity Apprentice' 2010-04-05T15:48:00Z

But the Mr. Big perpetrator is the post-Soviet system, rewarding corruption and punishing the innocent — those poor slobs who, in a familiar Russian stereotype, smoke and drink way too much. The Cannes Countdown: Six Contenders for Major Awards 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

But communist Romania's decay and corruption only highlight all he's tried to leave behind, and he comes to realise Europe is no exit at all. Esi Edugyan's top 10 tales of Americans in Europe 2011-07-13T10:59:07Z

Ultimately, power, greed and corruption are pitted against faith and love. ‘A Fable’ in Two Acts at the Cherry Lane 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Only in Britain would it be assumed that payment of a small fee somehow insulated one from moral corruption; but such was the idiotic law until censorship's demise in 1968. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams's southern discomfort 2012-09-30T19:00:11Z

Few American journalists know how life in Vladimir Putin’s Russia embraces the atmosphere of fear, secrecy and corruption that flourished in the Soviet Union. New documentary re-examines fall of USSR 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The series opens as Laurence wins a 1.5-million-pound judgment against a newspaper that accused him of corruption when he was health minister, before his current gig atop the transportation ministry. Review: Hugh Laurie Plays a Politician Trying to Avoid Cancellation 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

"It's a celebration of these cops who rid L.A. of organized crime of vice and corruption." Postponed by U.S. violence, "Gangster Squad" opening in theaters 2013-01-09T19:10:15Z

And an unseen drama originally written by Miller for the big screen, The Hook - about corruption in New York's docks - will have its world premiere at Northampton's Royal and Derngate theatre in June. Theatre 2015: A look-ahead 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Plenty happens in these two novels, with capitalist corruption laid bare and liberal sensibilities much in evidence. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z

So while Cervantes provided a starting point, the rappers improvised lyrics that focused mostly on personalities and issues of today, like political corruption in Spain and drug violence in Mexico. Rapping for Cervantes, for the Glory of It 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

U.S. attorney for Massachusetts Andrew Lelling said on Tuesday that the case is about "the widening corruption of elite college admissions through the steady application of wealth combined with fraud." The real scam of the elite college admissions game goes beyond Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Portrayals of villains who are disfigured perpetuate the stereotype that moral corruption and untrustworthiness is tied to the physical appearance. James Bond hasn't changed much, and neither have his problematic villains after 25 films 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

The governments’ ideologies, which once held out the promise of dignity and advancement, have become threadbare covers for corruption and repression; the spectre of their own dissolution is one of their main mobilizing tactics. The Novel After the Arab Spring 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z

There's such corruption and such a lack of belief in their government that any and all happiness you would find in a place like Bulgaria has to do with families and small friend groups. Rainn Wilson doesn't hold back: "Here's the guy from 'The Office' talking about suffering and death" 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z

The United States selects a president “through the electoral college not because it disenfranchises voters, but because it is a security mechanism for exactly the type of corruption that we are uncovering.” Rudy Giuliani’s post-election meltdown starts to become literal 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

He’s against corruption and in favor of reform, yet he claims “no doctrinal allegiances.” A Poet Remembers Her Impulsive Trip Into a Civil War 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Without the specter of a public shaming, corruption is freer to flourish. Yes, Fake News Is a Problem. But There’s a Real News Problem, Too. 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Morahan’s Nora is more consciously manipulative, and, from the moment we meet her, she seems tainted by a dimly perceived sense of guilt and corruption. Theater Review: ‘A Doll’s House,’ With Hattie Morahan’s Frantic Nora 2014-02-28T03:00:01Z

Like Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul is the story of one man’s terminal corruption. Better Call Saul is notoriously glacial. Here's how to speed it up 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

"This is a moment in time that allows us to see this societal corruption. It’s like a scourge on humanity." How we talk about Michael Jackson and abuse matters 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

“They knew there was corruption among a lot of council members.” The Fight for Franklin Canyon 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

“There was a basic presumption of corruption that so many movies from that era inherited from the late 1960s.” Todd Haynes: 'People who say Trump is bound to win are letting it happen' 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

But it is important to point out, as my Nigerian friends did, that at least corruption in Nigeria is out in the open. Naomie Harris: 'I want to play Elizabeth Bennet' 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

“Preservation,” Davies’ rock-theater extravaganza about real estate development and rascally political corruption, has a denouement that veers from comedy to Orwellian menace as a self-righteous totalitarian supplants the rascal, who at least was recognizably human. Kinks' Ray Davies is turning 70. Why it matters. 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

It instructed me to see the world as it is, with all its corruption and cruelty, and believe it’s worth fighting for anyway, even dying for. John McCain: By the Book 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

It included 100-page examinations of structural conditions contributing to the conditions that led to the violent uprisings back then, citing inequities in the public school system, housing and employment discrimination and government corruption. Frontline's "Policing the Police 2020" shows Newark's troubled police force slouching towards reform 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

Fury at government corruption and raw cruelty drove him to a controlled crescendo over his five-minute selection, which brought the balm of reasoned language and outraged yet composed thought to the barbarity of the situation. Review | ‘Nobody wants this story told’: Nigeria’s Renegade Theatre makes U.S. debut with ‘Chibok Girls’ 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

And don’t forget that Marco is still dealing with his considerable grief and sinking deeper into the corruption that controls the Chihuahua State Police. In Season 2, FX’s ‘The Bridge’ reaches a little too far

These are not the perks of ordinary corruption, but rather signs of Max’s perverse and terrifying zeal. Movie Review: Claude Sautet’s ‘Max et les Ferrailleurs’ 2012-08-10T04:20:08Z

Like its predecessor, “Dame” weaves several of Mr. Miller’s stories into overlapping studies of corruption and evil. ‘Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For,’ More Neo-Noir 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

When Luther spoke out against corruption in the Catholic Church, he made enemies of the pope and emperor. Visiting Germany’s Lutherland during 500th anniversary 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

And it is his corruption into violence, which ultimately leads him to kill Carmen, that is the larger tragedy. Isango Ensemble's 'uCarmen' exerts overwhelming feminine power and vibrant musicality 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Singh finds a web of deceit and corruption as she uncovers the way in which a family has sacrificed its female members in order to preserve status. Crime novels roundup 2010-05-14T23:28:00Z

“There are issues with corruption in all segments of Vietnamese society, and forest protection is no different,” said Andrew Tilker, an American field researcher who tracks the saola and other rare species. Vietnam’s Empty Forests 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

A young person from the provinces sets out for the big city, seeking fortune and fame and finding temptation, corruption and ruin. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

In between the two events were the furious protests of hundreds of thousands of Puerto Rican people disgusted by the administration’s disrespect and apparent corruption. Perspective | How one small news organization’s investigative reporting took down Puerto Rico’s governor 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

The show concerns a troubled steel industry, greedy businessmen and mass corruption. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

But once in Washington, he sinks into a morass of lobbyists, conspiracies and corruption, ultimately taking a bribe to resign his seat. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

He grew most excited discussing the hurdles for banking regulatory reform and his belief that “the good news is, corruption never works.” In ‘The Big Short,’ Adam McKay Uses Absurdity as His Guide 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Robin Miles, one of America’s most skilled audiobook narrators, moves adroitly from voice to voice, mood to mood, Ghanaian to American, as she delivers this suspenseful, atmospheric novel of desperation, corruption and murder. Review | For your playlist: The best new audiobooks of the month 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Complicating this one is corruption, both personal and institutional, which endangers Venetians' health. 'Beastly Thing': The commissario plumbs corruption 2012-04-11T22:26:09Z

Goldstein rattled through a litany of other public corruption cases that Blagojevich contends were far worse but still yielded lighter sentences. Hard time looking likely for Blagojevich 2011-12-07T03:48:00Z

Courthouse in Chicago on Thursday for the first day of testimony in his trial on corruption charges. Prosecutors focus on Cellini's connections 2011-10-07T02:30:00Z

Some critics say the films favored by festivals abroad tend to cater to a widespread perception of the Philippines as a bleak, impoverished place of slums, corruption and drugs. Filipino Filmmakers Shed Light on the Forgotten. They Hope It Can Last. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

At noon today, President Trump evoked a nation on the brink of an abyss—a failed state mired in rampant crime, poverty, and corruption. Inaugural Fashion: White Is a Color of Mourning 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

“S-Town” begins by focusing on allegations of corruption — namely a murder cover-up — in the small, rural town of Woodstock, Alabama, about an hour outside Birmingham. Brian Reed went to “S-Town;” all he brought back was this profound and unforgettable story 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

“It’s a crime not without victims and the victims many of them are journalists,” she added, citing Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was murdered while investigating corruption. Panama Papers revisited in Soderbergh's star-studded 'The Laundromat' 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

Killing Jews was "fun", as one PoW says; he killed without any feeling of corruption or moral failure. Soldatenby Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review 2013-01-25T20:00:04Z

There are vague allegations in the film of corruption and shady dealings, especially concerning the casting of roles. The Power Plays at the Bolshoi, On Film 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

He has sworn off marriage and he’s desperate to protect his two young wards — orphaned sisters — from his spiritual corruption. In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

In 2007, Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, is a simmering hotbed of corruption, political fraud and ethnic conflict. Africa is setting for three new mysteries 2013-05-08T21:09:14Z

One of Trump’s commonly used expressions was that he would “drain the swamp”, a reference to his claim that he will rid Washington of corruption and career politicians. John Oliver on Trump: 'A Klan-backed misogynist internet troll' is president 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

The director gives more screen time to the defense than to the prosecution, perhaps because he buys their assertion about government corruption, perhaps because they’re just better bullshitters. Home Movies: Who’s the Bigger Criminal, Whitey Bulger or the FBI? 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Our breath is theirs — from “the high Aeschylean sheen” of “The Lord of the Rings” to George R. R. Martin’s “tart Thucydidean appreciation for the way in which political corruption can breed narrative corruption.” A Critic Considers the ‘Ecstasy and Terror’ of Today With the Help of a Few Ancients 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“Deliverance,” of course, is a third case, or a corruption of the second case—not made for a major label, but not safely captured by the vault. The Unique Problem Posed by Prince’s Unreleased Songs 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

He also questioned where the president could hide any more evidence of Russian corruption. Late-night roundup: Trump's team 'like one of those Russian nesting dolls' 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, South African officials were somewhat uncomfortable with a film that depicted rampant discrimination, political corruption and racial violence in the segregated country. Strike Up the Banned: 5 Films That Sparked International Incidents 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Of the five choices, only “Wild Tales” does not directly address a war or its consequences, and even that film contains episodes that look at police corruption and government abuse. A Shock in the Foreign Language Category 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

“Lady Sings the Blues” is an exemplary report of the corruption and self-deception on which the country ran, and the constant threat of violence by which racist policies and practices were enforced. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

The persistent sound of buzzing flies hints at vultures, decaying flesh, moral corruption. 'My Joy' takes fascinating detours on a truck driver's bleak road trip 2012-01-19T20:43:04Z

Poor tax collection, entrenched corruption and a dysfunctional state may lead one to ask how Greece was let into the euro in the first place. Ordoliberalism revisited 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

There are consequences of fake culture that are comparable to the consequences of corruption in politics. High culture is being corrupted by a culture of fakes 2012-12-19T08:30:04Z

Municipal corruption, Jake finds, is only a part of the story. What’s on TV Sunday: College Football and ‘Chinatown’ 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

As the 10-episode documentary series became a viral phenomenon earlier this year, Strang and Buting rose to fame as “the good guys” in a fight against injustice and corruption on behalf of the underdog. Make Dean Strang proud: If you really care about criminal justice reform, stop trying to get out of jury duty 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

The love story is told well enough, but the novel’s strength derives from its observations about the possibilities and perils of power in a democratic government subject to corruption and moral compromise. Henry Adams’s 1880 Novel, ‘Democracy,’ Resonates Now More Than Ever 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Within the intimate story of the film, Ade is after big ideas and big phenomena, a virtual cross-section of the political corruption, economic malaise, and inhuman indifference of contemporary Europe. A Stilted Vision of a Declining Europe in “Toni Erdmann” 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Toppling oppressive regimes and protesting corruption are appropriately top of mind. The Web for the neighborhood 2012-07-04T14:05:00Z

Early-eighties tech utopians thought that the Internet would provide radical freedom from the corruption of the state. Adam Curtis’s Essential Counterhistories 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The deep corruption of democracy does not get much attention, nor does the alliance of plutocracy with aspiring autocracy. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Volz, who admits involvement in the corruption, having worked for both Mr. Ney and Mr. Abramoff, tells all in “Casino Jack,” to the point of self-flagellation. Film: Alex Gibney?s ?Casino Jack and the United States of Money? 2010-04-24T02:39:00Z

The parties that had ruled Cold War Italy – the Communists and the Christian Democrats – folded and a new political reality emerged from the chaos of mafia bombs and corruption scandals. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z

A final theory claims that "tequila" is simply a corruption of the word "tetilla" — meaning "small breast" — which is also the name for the summit of a tiny volcano near Tequila. National Tequila Day: 5 fun facts about the celebrated spirit 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Coming from Chicago, where he had broken in as an investigator for the state attorney’s office, pursuing corruption in Mayor Richard Daley’s permanent regime, Reuben thought he had seen it all. David Talbot on “Tavis Smiley” 2012-05-21T19:31:00Z

Rather than a red-meat attack on the Obama administration, “13 Hours” engages in a kind of diffuse, all-purpose cynicism about Washington as a familiar metonym for incompetence, corruption and bureaucratic inertia. ‘13 Hours,’ Benghazi and the slippery definition of ‘political’ 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Curry’s rousing — and sometimes infuriating — film poses important questions about identity politics and the inherent corruption of the political system. 8 Political Campaign Documentaries Worth Streaming 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

WikiLeaks and Anonymous could prove to be powerful allies in their shared war against government and corporate corruption. Anonymous strikes back 2012-06-03T13:00:00Z

The time is the early 1900s, when corruption, worker exploitation, poverty and devastating fires are common. Alice Hoffman’s novel of freak shows, fires and true love 2014-02-12T20:12:11Z

The message she read was the human occupation and corruption of the masterless ocean. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z

The index, which is based on perceived levels of public sector corruption for which scores are given by business people and country experts, rates countries from zero to 100 percent, zero being the most corrupt. Officials hiding ill-gotten gains undermine corruption fight-watchdog 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

Normalodorous: Reflecting a level of corruption and greed that isn’t noteworthy anymore. Style Invitational Week 1345: The confaketionary — food fictoids 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Even accounting for the Palestinian Authority’s deficiencies — among them its corruption and authoritarianism — this is the fundamental imbalance in the conflict. George Mitchell wrote 'A Path to Peace' about Israel and Palestine. Is there one? 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The first revelation of a pervasive corruption comes when Benjamín's rightwing rival beats murder confessions from two innocent immigrant workers. The Secret in Their Eyes 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

Brazil is beautiful, but there are also many bad things, like corruption and violence, particularly against women. Happy birthday, Gen Z: celebrating with 16-year-olds around the world 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Artists’ posthumous lives are often the source of dramas of ethics, consent, corruption, and misrepresentation. The Bizarre Dispute Over Whether Three Michael Jackson Songs Were Actually Sung by Someone Else 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

It is thought that Morgan was ready to expose corruption in Scotland Yard by giving information to the News of the World. Untold: Britain's dirtiest murder cover-up has become a must-listen podcast 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

“It evolves into a meditation on the war on terror, the European refugee crisis, and corruption in the developing world without ever releasing its tight focus on Dadaab.” The 10 most important books of 2016 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

The play touches superficially on war and empire, capitalism and corruption; Donald Trump is mentioned, awkwardly. ‘One Discordant Violin’ Review: In Search of Soul-Stirring Art 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Tagoe draws comparisons between two of society's least empathetic institutions, the world of high finance and the prison system, in order to prove that bullying, coercion and corruption are endemic in both. The Thing About Psychopaths – review 2013-03-10T17:40:12Z

Currently in the middle of an expansion plan, the theatre has staged provocative plays, using drama to challenge power, corruption, conservatism and traditionalism. Juliano Mer-Khamis obituary 2011-04-11T18:02:15Z

He expressed his opposition to religious parties who try to silence art and political opponents and praised Iraqi youth who paid a high price for revolting against their corruption. Iconic musician seeks to rebuild Iraq through music 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

Smog, police corruption, and of course the Ku Klux Klan. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

And while the films show Baron Cohen's range as both a comedian and a dramatic actor, they are unified by the use of humor as a way to actively subvert and challenge corruption. Sacha Baron Cohen trolls Rudy Giuliani yet again, culminating a year of cinematic resistance 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

The career felt like one long wrestling match with corruption. Art Review: ‘Chinese Gardens,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-08-16T21:59:52Z

Mbue, the author of “Behold the Dreamers,” explores greed, corruption and personal sacrifice in her new novel, set in a fictional African village. 16 New Books to Watch For in March 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

GS And the case just got moved from Florida to here that was also crucial, because there were a lot of cases that, due to the corruption of the Florida system, had not been pursued. Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Nor was that the worst of it: the subsequent blizzard of investigations and inquiries added corruption and the bribing of policemen to the paper’s rap sheet. Mucky paps 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Like “Dreams of Flying,” which merged themes of Wall Street corruption and environmental apocalypse, “Yellow Hour” pushes topical fears into creepy, Götterdämmerung fantasy. Theater Review: Adam Rapp’s ‘Through the Yellow Hour,’ at Rattlestick 2012-09-28T02:00:00Z

But the depictions of violence, rage, corruption and dissipation have the feel of historical set pieces. | 'Who Do You Love': Leonard Chess: Starting Rock ?n? Roll, Sort Of 2010-04-09T00:03:00Z

Maddow advocates more stringent rules on Western companies aiding foreign corruption. Rachel Maddow Takes On the Oil Industry 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

“Billions” confidently plays with power’s favorite consorts: corruption, wrath and my personal favorite, pettiness — the drug that makes people take certain slights too personally and too far. "Billions" is better than "Game of Thrones" at studying power, hate and corruption 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

Pacino stars as Frank Serpico, the socially conscious “hippie” cop who rises quickly to become an undercover officer, only to discover rampant corruption and extortion among New York’s finest. The Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Here, portrayed with electrifying duplicity by Mr. Suchet and Ms. Wanamaker, they’re more like the Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth of Middle America — guarded, watchful and consciously poisoned by their own corruption. London Theater Scene Echoes Economic Woes 2010-07-20T21:34:00Z

And in a climate rife with corruption, foul play of all kinds is still commonplace. | 'Khodorkovsky': Mikhail Khodorkovsky Documentary - Review 2011-11-29T22:44:05Z

It means not smiling and looking away, or “agreeing to disagree” when confronted with lies, corruption and human rights abuses. What would Jesus boo? As Christians, we should be troublemakers too 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Journalists at the fictionalised Baltimore Sun battled with endemic corruption, budget cuts and their proprietors' and politicians' desire to maintain the status quo. Six to watch ? shows set in newsrooms 2011-07-19T11:21:54Z

Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to go after corruption and excess among the elite, a prime source of public discontent as the gap between the poor and the wealthy continues to grow. China bans tainted stars from TV, movie screens 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

The Peruvian converts were fleeing not persecution or pogroms but abject poverty, fueled by government corruption. One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

Subway cars blossom with graffiti; the radio news wearily tallies each day’s shootings and stabbings; crime and corruption hang in the winter air like smog. 'A Most Violent Year,’ With Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Besides, there is violence and corruption at every point in the supply chain as drugs move from producers to users. Dark net markets: the eBay of drug dealing 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

At the same time, she assailed the ANC for corruption and mismanagement in power and echoed concerns of her hero, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, that the poor and sick were forgotten. Heidi Holland 2012-08-22T11:56:32Z

Detlev Glanert's Caligula, based on Camus's play and given its UK premiere at the Coliseum last week, tackles another aspect of authority and corruption. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z

Prosecutor Alberto Nisman investigated the attack, and potential ties to government corruption, for nearly two decades, before he was found dead in his apartment the day before he was to reveal his findings. What's new on Netflix in January, from a "Ghost Bride" and RuPaul to BoJack's last ride 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

A decade later, 2015’s brilliant “The Big Short” permanently altered his trajectory from go-to comedy guru into one of Hollywood’s most astute chroniclers of political and economic corruption. Adam McKay went from Ron Burgundy to Dick Cheney, and it actually makes perfect sense 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

“Well, one way to solve that issue of image is to get rid of the opportunity for corruption, the opportunity for abuse.” Illinois House bans legislative scholarships 2012-03-21T23:39:00Z

“I was interested in doing something about corruption,” he added, “because it seems to me corruption destroys the will to live and saps hope.” Katie Leung Stars in ‘One Child’ by Guy Hibbert 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

“But it all hurts me, all the lies and manipulation, all the stealing, corruption. It’s all an insult to common sense.” Actor brothers take center stage in Serbia’s street protests 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

“The SAT was thought to democratize and objectify what would otherwise have been a chaotic and arbitrary process of selection open to favoritism and corruption,” he says. Books of The Times: Application Adventure: A Dad?s College Essay 2011-03-03T16:59:43Z

Living in Los Angeles, he was privy to the glamorous Hollywood era and saw the corruption at first hand. Partners in crime fiction 2011-07-22T08:00:02Z

Like Fela, Femi aimed his political ire at African corruption, his songs criticizing despots and dictators for destroying the continent's potential. At Metro Femi Kuti carries on his father's music and mission 2011-05-01T15:02:00Z

And so, for a bit of flattery and a few modest bribes, PT Sir slides comfortably into a morass of political corruption — all for the greater good, of course. Review | Megha Majumdar’s ‘A Burning’ is blazing up the bestseller list and emerging as the must-read novel of the summer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

The desert blooms with melodrama and film noir, and the streets teem with cynicism, conspiracy and corruption. Movie Review: In ‘Omar,’ the West Bank Is a Backdrop for Betrayal 2014-02-20T23:28:48Z

George Ryan, who was sentenced to 61/2 years in prison after his corruption conviction, was freed by the appeals court pending appeal. Blagojevich attorneys consider prison, appeal 2011-12-09T06:01:00Z

The past three months have seen the renowned Easter festival engulfed by allegations of corruption which forced the resignation of one director and coincided with the apparent suicide attempt of another. Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after ?1.8m corruption scandal 2010-03-26T18:52:00Z

Cicero confronts corruption head-on in a case against Verres, a former governor, accusing the courts of showing preferential treatment to “any man, no matter how guilty, if he has sufficient money.” These books lead to Rome 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

Yes, the corruption inside government may be obscene. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z

He has his eye on her — then again, she has been assigned to secretly investigate him as part of a federal corruption probe. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Cardinal,’ ‘The Ranch’ and ‘The Great British Baking Show’ 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Much of what passes for scandal in the current administration is primarily a breach of an unwritten code of behavior that usually prevents serious charges of corruption. Is this Washington’s golden age of grift? Or politics as usual? 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Greed and corruption are themselves the magnetic fields that pull together would-be players — white, Latino and African-American. Review: ‘Superfly’ Adds Bling to an Old Tale 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

His founding of South Korea’s biggest church was a symbol of the postwar growth of Christianity in the country before that achievement was tainted by corruption and other scandals. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

And I want to know has making "Baltimore Rising" and making "The Slow Hustle" changed your stance on a current state of corruption? HBO's "The Slow Hustle" director: "We're all carrying some level of mass grief as Black people" 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

The creators of HBO documentary The Jinx turn their attention to corruption in American cities. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Weibo is thought to employ at least 100 staff for this 24-hour operation, though it also sometimes pushes back the boundaries – most recently by encouraging its 140 million registered users to report cases of corruption. Radiohead appear to launch microblog in China 2011-07-06T16:10:27Z

Edwin Edwards will star on a new cable TV show alongside the woman he married after his release from federal prison on a corruption conviction. Ex-La. gov convicted of corruption gets TV show 2013-01-04T20:29:11Z

It is beset by corruption, nepotism and an often scant regard for the rule of law. Baghdad, Iraq: 10 years after Saddam 2013-03-17T00:05:30Z

In a Brazil that has been roiled by corruption scandals and power grabs, culture writer Silas Martí examines the events that are leaving the nation’s artists unmoored. Essential Arts & Culture: Deciphering Civil War telegrams, summer of Shakespeare, a conductor's fiery performance 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z

Dispatching his distillations of history and religion to men of discernment, he hoped to open up a new, virtuous cultural space opposed to the corruption epitomised by Mazarin, Richelieu's successor as chief minister. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z

He inveighs against corruption only sparingly, because he’s so blessedly busy. Michael Connelly’s ‘The Burning Room’ Revisits Harry Bosch 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

One of the major motifs of “Twin Peaks” has been the corruption of youth. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 5: Vegas Baby 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

“It seems that unless a commentator or television program, channel, or newspaper reflects exactly the complainer’s worldview, it must be guilty of bias or corruption,” she said. J.K. Rowling Calls Donald Trump ‘Offensive and Bigoted’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Values clash and negotiate — Christian and Muslim, urban and rural, tradition and modernity — and corruption and religious extremism are constant reminders of political instability. | 'Position Among the Stars': ?Position Among the Stars,? From Indonesia - Review 2011-09-14T22:08:25Z

Same goes for his most recognizable refrain, “sheeeeeeeeeit” — in the age of pervasive corruption and ever-more-shocking political scandals, it is as poignant as it was when “The Wire” concluded back in 2008. “Wire” actor on his famous catchphrase: “I still say it” 2013-09-05T14:40:00Z

Louis XIV also charged Le Brun with directing the complete makeover of the previously modest château of Versailles, where France's own aristocratic corruption would one day sink the royal ship of state. 'Woven Gold: Tapestries of Louis XIV': Splendid pomp and circumstance at the Getty 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

His 1963 novel, The Time of the Hero, which drew on his military school experiences and exposed the corruption he encountered there, catapulted him onto the literary scene. Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature Goes with a Well-Known Name 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z

"I will exercise my right as commander in chief to fight all forms of corruption," he said. APNewsBreak: Jean seeks dual citizenship for Haiti 2010-08-15T01:34:00Z

As with book banning in Texas, Friedmann contends it’s a pretext: “They don’t like our content regarding misconduct and corruption by prison officials.” Battling censorship behind bars 2013-05-07T13:00:00Z

Fifty years after the Watergate break-in, Dean is the star of “Watergate: Blueprint for a Scandal,” a new CNN special on the conspiracy and corruption that took down Richard M. Nixon’s presidency. John Dean, Watergate’s golden boy, is back in the spotlight 50 years later 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Belzer felt that so much of the world's suffering derived from our collective refusal to acknowledge the corruption all around us. "He did not suffer fools": Honoring Richard Belzer, the stand-up conspiracy theorist 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

The endemic corruption — both at the upper echelons of government and in the state-owned energy company, Naftogaz — did not inspire confidence in Europe that the gas flowing from Russia to Ukraine could be counted upon. How a D.C. lobbyist tried to stop Putin’s pipeline before war started 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z

We see him answering questions put to him by a crusading judge, Sérgio Moro, an arrogant man with an Eliot Ness profile and widespread public recognition for his handling of big corruption scandals. The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

He spoke of public trust and public cynicism, the obligations of the electorate in a state where corruption is the norm, and the responsibilities of those who hold public office. Kass: Long prison term a stern warning 2011-12-08T06:01:00Z

Blood Despite Kinship “Aurangzeb,” Atul Sabharwal’s dark fable about corruption and family ties, begins with a quote from Horace: “Deep in the cavern of the infant’s breast, the father’s nature lurks, and lives anew.” Movie Review: ‘Aurangzeb,’ Directed by Atul Sabharwal 2013-05-19T21:55:53Z

There's a lot about Chicago corruption, neighborhood loyalty and Republican-Democrat conflicts, too. Ward Just's novel 'Rodin's Debutante': converging lives, loose ends 2011-03-09T23:49:04Z

Mr. Beltracchi and three others were convicted this fall of forgery and corruption relating to 14 works that sold for $45 million. ArtsBeat: Convicted Art Forger Says More of His Works Are Out There 2012-03-06T22:04:52Z

In his homily, the pope urged Filipinos to shun "social structures which perpetuate poverty, ignorance and corruption," a theme he stressed when he held talks with President Benigno Aquino on Friday. Pope Manila Mass drew record crowd of 6-7 million: Vatican 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian If the events of the past week seem on the surface to be about systemic corruption in British public life then there is also an ulterior process at work. The News of the World closes as media's tectonic plates shift 2011-07-11T15:03:15Z

But might this qualify as a kind of soft corruption? Soderbergh on Hollywood: 'It's not crooked – it's the most transparent industry going' 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

At Blagojevich's December sentencing, Zagel scolded the two-term governor for ripping the very fabric of Illinois government apart — then handed him one of the stiffest sentences for corruption in Illinois history. Blago ex-chief of staff to be sentenced today 2012-03-28T17:54:00Z

The group says it fights against police corruption and lawlessness. Russian artist gives his Havel prize to group accused of killing police 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

But the way that Mutrux shows it, the real target of the authorities wasn’t corruption; it was rock and roll. Movies Click: A Rarely Screened Rock-and-Roll Classic 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

The moral is that power corrupts, and corruption is fun. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Shot in glorious sepia, it exposes the corruption and hypocrisy of the period. Aleksei Balabanov obituary 2013-05-19T17:18:05Z

But the gates are not finished, the project is mired in corruption and the flooding continues to get worse. Travails of a modern city 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

“The past generation saw corruption and impunity as normal,” Mr. Estrada said. Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Reflects Mexican Drug War 2012-01-15T04:27:18Z

Yet Loznitsa’s is a deeply cynical outlook, one that is most apparent in his narrative features, like “Donbass,” a grim satire about corruption and propaganda in the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. What Does It Mean to Live in Ukraine? Filmmakers Offer Their Answers. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The film is a follow-the-money story in that greed and blatant disregard for citizens' wellbeing prompted such widespread corruption. "Collective" is an urgent exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Walker is best known for the astonishing corruption investigation that ended his political career, but Miller makes a fair case that Walker actually accomplished something in office. ‘Supreme City,’ by Donald L. Miller 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The couple had heard of Mexico's cartel killings, casino firebombs, bribery and corruption. Cancun: Spring break on despite tourist unease 2012-04-03T16:44:07Z

For Ellroy, the war years become a kind of laboratory for a merciless examination of madness, corruption and unrestrained greed on the part of powerful white men “riding the zeitgeist for all it’s worth.” Review | James Ellroy continues his examination of the corrupt and powerful with ‘This Storm’ 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Other window displays by a number of artists protest at corporate greed and art-world corruption. Back in business at the Liverpool Biennial 2010-09-20T20:30:00Z

The scars of Katrina — and of the neglect and corruption that followed — are still evident, and the alienation of poor, black citizens is painful and profound. ‘Black and Blue’ Review: A Cop Thriller for Our Age of Dread 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Once this corruption takes place, that man no longer wants to tell the truth: he wants to tell lies that please and awe. Greg Baxter's top 10 memento mori 2010-07-21T11:15:00Z

The Wire was intricately, unforgivingly plotted, capturing the prosaic nature of police procedural work, the brutal dynastic politics of drug kingpins and the corruption and grubby compromises of civic life. ‘Progress is painfully uneven’: Baltimore, 15 years after The Wire 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

In this reality and the tale's speculative version, the corruption of patriarchal governance is inevitable, part of a ceaseless cycle of lording over others by seizing control of wealth. A Second Civil War and too many plotholes plague "DMZ," HBO Max's latest dystopian adaptation 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Reuben and his crew came in with guns blazing, targeting the deep corruption in the San Francisco police force, including payoffs to cops by the skin trade moguls in North Beach. David Talbot on “Tavis Smiley” 2012-05-21T19:31:00Z

The station has provided a platform for opposition leaders and reported on allegations of official corruption, including during Olympic preparations. How Russia hits back at slights over WWII victory 2014-02-10T14:06:15Z

Reese got ensnared in a tangled web of promising leads and dead ends — as does King’s book, which can get bogged down in the morass of Lake County’s unrelenting racism and squalid corruption. A True-Crime Mystery From the 1950s, Fueled by Racism and Corruption 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Romania joined the European Union in 2007, but remains its second-poorest state, with entrenched bureaucracy and corruption that date back to those times. Ceausescu's bunker offers a window into Romania's communist past 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

His focus is not on bad people doing bad things, but on how incentives across a range of institutions have created corruption, with deleterious consequences for the nation. Two Leading Intellectuals Analyze What Ails America 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Book Bunk’s work comes amid heated conversations about urban design and about how corruption and colonial systems continue to shape the way public infrastructure and spaces are designed and who gets access to them. Turning Nairobi’s Public Libraries Into ‘Palaces for the People’ 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

More recently, a front-page article in The Times told the story of a Reno, Nev., family whose adoption case stalled when allegations of corruption shut down the system. Motherlode Blog: An Adoptive Parent Won't Take the Blame 2012-12-10T17:36:50Z

The film also addresses, by extension, police corruption, white nationalism, and advocates for the killing of cops. "Standoff at Sparrow Creek": Michigan militia men unravel in this claustrophobic thriller 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

In doing so, Lynch combines the worlds of “normality” and corruption into one. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

Rangers tragedy didn't involve such levels of corruption as far as I can remember. Michael Richards revisits his racist rant … and the bonuses of being Brucie 2012-10-02T15:01:48Z

“High Tech Low Life”: Two bloggers report on everything from pollution to corruption in China, thereby exploring evolving censorship regulations in the country and pushing the boundaries of free speech. Monday TV Picks: ‘Breaking Pointe’ on the CW 2013-07-19T22:55:14Z

And when I watched it live, I didn’t think about the decadence of Nazi Germany or the corruption of that family or any contemporary parallels. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

The expansionism "is shown to be characterised by corruption, fraud, people-smuggling, endemic secrecy, cosying up to execrable regimes, and the brutal exploitation of its own and other countries' labour forces on a global scale." Book reviews roundup: Family Secrets, A Hologram for the King and China's Silent Army 2013-02-08T18:50:01Z

But they did not succeed in making those descendants reproduce that violence and that corruption and that bestiality. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

If Americans cared more about soccer, we might be more familiar with the corruption and bribery scandals within FIFA, the organization that holds the World Cup. Must-see morning clip: Inside the “cartoonishly evil” organization of FIFA 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

And it is steeped in the smell of disgust with red-white-and-blue corruption in the age of the Vietnam War. | 'That Championship Season': The Champs Reunite, Bearing the Nation?s Scars 2011-03-07T03:01:04Z

The public would be divided down racial lines, but the jury, predominantly black, would believe the defense’s tale of corruption and the perception of OJ as a victim. The People v OJ Simpson: episode five – it's story time, with Johnnie Cochran 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Is it really meant to be a convincing story of innocence and corruption that tackles moral values and spiritual choices? Was "Showgirls" actually a failure? "You Don't Nomi" revisits the craptastic cult film we can't quit 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z

“I was shocked, honestly I was shocked. I couldn’t believe the level of corruption in our health care system,” said Ursuleanu. Oscar-nominated Romanian film reveals health care failings 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

So when there’s a second sniper killing of a cop, he suspects a link to the victims’ secret investigation of corruption in their department. Hate Thy Neighbor. Or Maybe Just Kill Him. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Members of law enforcement aren’t any more bullet proof than the citizens and suspects they police, and are just as subject to scrutiny and corruption as any larger-than-life villain. The good cops of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" are a scathing critique of destructive policing 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

“Gosford Park,” like “The Remains of the Day” and “Atonement,” limned the grandeur of a fading aristocracy with glints of delusion and corruption. Critic?s Notebook: ?Downton Abbey? Stokes Flames for Season 2 - Review 2012-01-06T17:33:23Z

Kuwait's parliament - the most politically empowered in the Gulf - is currently in limbo over disputes between the ruling family and lawmakers that include claims of widespread corruption. Kuwait drama on war unity contrasts current feuds 2012-08-16T12:25:15Z

He goes after child labor, police corruption and the whole gamut of criminality infecting New York. Review | Teddy Roosevelt and his pet cougar leap into action 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Set in the tiny fictional town of Vinci, the story rests on a similar web of corruption. 'True Detective' turns cautious at the beginning of Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Or, in some cases, she was already teetering into corruption, as we see in “Twin Peaks” and “Veronica Mars”; the death of a fallen golden girl began each TV series. Megan Abbott on Cheerleaders in Pop Culture 2012-07-27T15:27:38Z

Their series examines corruption and abuse of power in Russia two decades after the end of communism. Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z

State media has frequently referred to drug use as a form of moral corruption that is damaging to society. Jackie Chan's son arrested in China on drugs charge 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

Former mayor Martin O’Malley – now a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination – denounced the series for what he felt was an unfair depiction of crime, corruption and policing. The Wire cast reunites to give voice to stories of Baltimore's riots 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

He was fed on lies, mythologies, the accreted mendacity of a white culture that will not confront its own erosion and its own corruption. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Denselow surveyed major areas – agriculture, trade, the economy, oil, corruption, education, music, and the flourishing Nollywood cinema – succinctly and with some really good interviews. Radio review: Africa at 50 2010-09-27T05:45:00Z

In the fabulously entertaining “The Seven Five,” Dowd and a colorful rogues gallery of colleagues, dealers, DEA agents and Internal Affairs guys recount stories of the extent of Dowd’s corruption. 2015’s wild and wonderful documentaries: These true stories are infinitely weirder than fiction 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

The comedies offer insight into love; the rest, into the corruption of power. It’s Time to Turn the Page on the Trump-Shakespeare Comparisons 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

I was truly miserable in New Orleans, which is rotted through with two of the facts of life I find most unbearable: Public corruption and humidity. The show I never wanted to watch, until I had to 2011-04-29T18:20:00Z

He brings this past into a kind of balance: He shows how to hold it, all together, in one eye — a people and a place in all their promise and corruption. Revisiting a Utopian City With Fondness and Fury 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

Making information public and opening up decision-making can reduce corruption, increase compliance and lead to fair and effective policies. Illuminating dark seas: Why fisheries management must be more transparent 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

So a shining city with segregation and crime and corruption and all the political themes that I'm interested in but on a much broader canvas. Book Talk: South Africa's Beukes revisits America in 'Broken Monsters' 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

“Now, with your camera, I’m exposing myself. My corruption, my mendacity, my hypocrisy.” Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

Through the Harwoods' turbulent marriage, Roffey explores the harsh legacy of slavery and colonialism, along with the disappointments and corruption that follow. Marriage shows shift in Trinidad in Roffey's novel 2011-05-02T11:49:12Z

But how about terror in the Mideast, violence and corruption in Mexico, starvation and genocide in large swaths of Africa, the economic and immigration crises in Europe, and on and on? Feedback: Cats and dogs making the scene 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

She said a prevalent belief in harsh punishment is often used to excuse corruption and inefficiency in the justice system. Singing to Be Heard, Behind Bars in Mexico 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

"My Kind of Town" is billed as a "thoughtful and passionate examination of corruption, responsibility, and the culture of law and order." TimeLine to produce 'Enron,' 'My Kind of Town' 2011-02-24T05:47:02Z

The festival has been hit by a corruption scandal. Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after ?1.8m corruption scandal 2010-03-26T18:52:00Z

In Rich Like Us, two women discover the corruption of their elite social milieu. Hari Kunzru: my hero, Nayantara Saghal 2012-07-20T21:55:13Z

“The mechanism” is Mr. Padilha’s term for a sweeping corruption and kickback scheme that, he argues, seized control of democracy in Brazil almost from its return in 1985, after a 21-year military dictatorship. Brazil’s Jaw-Dropping Corruption Scandal Comes to Netflix 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

As this presidency's corruption has deepened, its episodic themes and seasonal arcs have also evolved to portray the steady dissolution of the presumed bulwark against injustice that is supposed to be provided by the law. "The Good Fight" dreams up a Hillary Clinton timeline we've all wondered about 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Castle takes a break from teaching his daughter the finer rules of poker to get stuck into a case that points towards major police corruption. TV highlights 14/12/2012 2012-12-13T20:00:01Z

Then he lays a scoop on her plate, involving an impending execution and political corruption, that he knows she won't be able to resist. His Girl Friday: No 13 2010-10-18T10:41:00Z

Owen’s dealings with the shipping company introduce some hefty topics — capitalism, nepotism, corruption, democracy — that vibrate throughout the story without ever developing into an argument. Review: ‘In the Heart of the Sea,’ It’s Man vs. Leviathan 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

When Philip, Elizabeth, and Tuan have dinner with the dissident family, the father, who’s just arrived from the Soviet Union, tells appalling stories about Russian corruption and food shortages. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Through him, Liss explores such pertinent issues as political corruption, financial panics and anti-Semitism. Book review: ‘The Day of Atonement’ by David Liss

He filed false police reports saying that I was engaged in some sort of corruption with judges. Troll-fighter Carrie Goldberg: "I became the lawyer I needed" 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

The book’s last chapters race breathlessly through important events of the past few years, including China’s huge investment in Africa and the theft and corruption in Nigeria, without pausing to analyse, explain or conclude. The unlucky continent 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Add a selfish attitude toward the immense wealth from oil and consider the potential for corruption. 'Crude Awakening': An inside view of Alaska 2011-11-02T21:10:04Z

Playing a plantation owner in “Django Unchained,” he savored the sulfurous corruption of an older ruling class. Movie Review: DiCaprio Stars in Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ 2013-12-24T20:02:17Z

Indeed, Cohen seemed to take special relish in enumerating everyday corruption in “Everybody Knows,” rolling his shoulders like a boxer readying an uppercut. Concert review: Leonard Cohen at Akoo Theatre 2012-11-24T07:58:00Z

Much of “Silence” seems inhibited by Scorsese’s devotion to the subject, as if it risked corruption by the intervention of cinematic hedonism. Martin Scorsese Tests His Limits in “Silence” 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Reporters are crusaders after truth and scourges of corruption, for sure, but they are never squeaky clean. Film: The Newspaper Picture: A Genre Explored at Film Forum 2010-04-08T21:41:00Z

Album preview: MGMT's Congratulations More top stories Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after £1.8m corruption scandal Paul Morley showing off ... Salzburg Easter festival hopes harmony will be restored after ?1.8m corruption scandal 2010-03-26T18:52:00Z

When Conflict Spills Over Cloistered Walls The worldly and the unworldly collide in “Apparition,” Vincent Sandoval’s meditative drama about the limits of faith and the corruption of innocence. Movie Review: In ‘Apparition,’ a Philippine Drama, Nuns Face Civil Strife 2013-07-09T18:21:34Z

Leaders he linked in songs to corruption remain close to the levers of power in this oil-rich but poverty-stricken country. New Nigeria museum fetes late Afrobeat singer Fela 2012-10-16T11:31:05Z

His 90-minute routine delivered a witty critique of problems from food queues and medicine shortages, to government corruption and skewed courts. Venezuelans find solace in comedy amid economic travails 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Broadly adhering to a vérité style, Li builds a case that active civic engagement in China inevitably leads to trouble — or else further corruption. ‘Lost Course’ Review: When a Village Fights Back 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

As detailed in the series, the woman who was once a darling of the Republican Party became a pariah as soon as she began insisting publicly on the president’s corruption. In ‘Gaslit,’ a Victim of Watergate and History Finds Rescue 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

The detective solves murders and exposes deceit and corruption. Unearthed Raymond Chandler Story Rebukes U.S. Health Care System 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Now, he thinks, ”there won’t be a revolution, the system will simply collapse under the weight of its own greed, corruption and bigotry.” Sixto Rodriguez, Secret Rock Star Behind Searching for Sugar Man 2012-08-21T12:00:30Z

Both these series elucidated problematic elements of our judicial system: the power of money and clout in The Jinx; potential racism and corruption in Serial. How The Jinx and Serial Strain the Ethics of Crime Reporting 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

New technologies are typically framed as accelerators for the sexual corruption of girls, but here their risks are linked inextricably to great rewards. The Lustful Middle School Girl Rises 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

Its intentions are, to some degree, corrective: It mocks some of the popular corruptions of faith so as to invite the audience to reflect upon what real faith might be. Review: ‘Don Verdean,’ a Sendup of Ambitious Pastors and the Lure of Religious Relics 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Blagojevich was convicted on federal corruption charges in a second trial in July and was sentenced last month to 14 years in prison. Kirk faces long recovery from stroke 2012-01-24T03:03:00Z

You find yourself trying to shake these thoughts from your head: scepticism is far preferable to the sheer melodrama, the vast nexus of collaboration and corruption it implies. Rose McGowan: 'I won't be free of Harvey Weinstein until he's dead – or I am' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

The incompetence, corruption and brutality of many postcolonial leaders had become apparent by the end of the 1960s. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z

Especially season two of "Treme," which was dominated by crime, the threat of random violence, and local government's culture of corruption and indifference to individual suffering? Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z

The world to which he refers is that of "It" or "The Body," in which innocence and corruption travel hand-in-hand. Faith and magic get a 'Revival' in new Stephen King novel 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Putin’s current assertiveness, Conradi shows, harks back to the tumultuous ’90s, when the authoritarianism, corruption and crony capitalism we associate with contemporary Russia took root. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Pressure mounts when the state launches a criminal probe into reports of widespread corruption in the small industrial town of Vinci on “Night Finds You,” Episode 202 of HBO’s “True Detective.” 'True Detective' recap: State launches probe into Vinci corruption 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

Many critics accuse him of trampling over Israel’s democratic traditions as he clings to power while on trial for corruption charges and pushes for emergency powers under the guise of battling the coronavirus crisis. Israeli artist takes aim at Netanyahu with life-size statue 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Although set in an unnamed African nation, the story speaks to the plight of extremely poor people in all countries riddled with corruption and violence. Review | Ishmael Beah’s memoir revealed the realities of child soldiers. His fiction shows the humanity of homeless kids. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

It made two main points: The podcast intimated there’s corruption in Woodstock’s town hall, but never followed through with any evidence. 'Pretty accurate': S-Towners are proud to be podcasted – except for a few things 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

His reforms are aimed at pleasing a public long frustrated by local corruption. China's airing of 'V for Vendetta' stuns viewers 2012-12-20T06:43:09Z

As brutal and fast-moving as the first, the focus is now on the corruption inside the force. This week's new films 2011-08-12T23:07:30Z

Pope Francis ushered the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics into Christmas on Wednesday, urging them to allow God to enter their lives to help combat darkness and corruption. Pope, on Christmas Eve, urges world to be open to God 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

He took on the corruption and injustice that plagued his post-Depression society. What if superheroes aren’t really the good guys? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

The influx of industrialist money brings both philanthropy and corruption. ‘Manhattan’ and ‘The Knick’ Return to a Forward-Looking Past 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Garcia Marquez suffered a strong official backlash to his story about how government corruption contributed to the disaster recounted in "Story of A Shipwrecked Sailor." Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87 2014-04-17T20:36:08Z

“But I am critical of how it is allocated. Not enough resources are invested in public infrastructure, and there is too much waste because of corruption, lack of urban policy and obsolete construction standards.” In Kazakhstan, a Shimmering Skyline on the Steppe 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Academy award-winning director Alex Gibney typically dedicates years of effort and research to producing his powerful and often shocking documentaries about corporate greed and government corruption. "They knew better": Alex Gibney on Big Pharma & the opioid epidemic in "The Crime of the Century" 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

It was Ai's political activism highlighting corruption in the aftermath of the 2008 quake that drew the ire of Chinese authorities and lead to his detention in April 2011. Correction: Italy-Biennale-Weiwei story 2013-05-29T15:50:20Z

It's not exactly really ripe for a big juicy corruption scandal. Troll-fighter Carrie Goldberg: "I became the lawyer I needed" 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

The two men belonged to Morocco's pro-democracy February 20 movement that last year brought tens of thousands into the streets protesting corruption and calling for political reform. Morocco hosts world's artists, imprisons its own 2012-05-26T09:31:03Z

Hollywood actor George Clooney launched an initiative on Monday to track down and help bring to justice those funding and profiting from Africa’s deadliest conflicts, in a bid to fight corruption in war zones. George Clooney seeks to expose those who fund and profit from wars in Africa 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

The perks of power and patronage were unveiled as corruption and personal gain. The tale of Marion Barry, king of D.C.

Using actors and elaborate sets, Mr. Filizadeh presents the story of the ruler’s life as a phantasmagoria of kink and corruption, and the Shah himself as a shameless, let-it all-hang-out clown. 3 Knockout Art Shows to See in Los Angeles Right Now 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

In most of the schools I was at, the lessons weren’t good because of local government corruption; sometimes, I felt I was just wasting my time. 'My worries are not over': diary of a 16-year-old Afghan refugee 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

“Immigrants, Detroit’s car industry, power and corruption — it makes you realize how important this work is.” ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ Returns With Its Brazen Politics Intact 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Clooney presented thriller "The Ides of March", in which he stars alongside Ryan Gosling and Philip Seymour Hoffman in a popular take on corruption in U.S. politics. Venice film festival wins on points, lacks knock-out 2011-09-09T13:29:02Z

Instead, in each distinct yet eerily similar story, it’s clear that unquestioning cooperation is required for corruption to prosper. Everything is terrible: How to watch “The Big Short,” “Making a Murderer” and “Concussion” without losing your mind 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

The toxicity of politics and corruption wends its way through the story as well, and Justice lays out what he believes is wrong with the justice system without being preachy. Review | Robert Justice is using fiction to shed light on the reality of wrongful convictions 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Journalist and gadfly Anne Royall turned a muckraking eye on the corruption of Jackson-era Washington — and, for her troubles, nearly got ducked in the Potomac. Book World: ‘Empire of Mud,’ by J.D. Dickey

“Most interesting” because his scenes are animated by a story of corruption, by the idea that the very infrastructure of the young country was literally shaped by venality. TV Weekend: AMC?s Hell on Wheels Gives ?Em, At Best, Heck 2011-11-04T14:34:56Z

He inspired reform-minded Saudis to stem chronic corruption and combat increasing Islamic militancy, but faced problems at every step. Ghazi al-Gosaibi obituary 2010-08-24T17:43:00Z

The book’s main target is the corruption of Italy’s ruling class by decades of neoliberal economic policies. ‘Ferocity’ Brings Florida Noir to Southern Italy 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

As a member of his flock and family, I was more than just sheltered — I was actively warned against the corruption of the outside world. Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church: We were “true believers,” everyone else the enemy 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

At least one classic movie provides a brilliant primer in exploring larger-than-life political corruption as well as the structural, genuinely democratic forces we need to fight it. Perspective | Trump’s exit may be too late to save the presidential movie 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Their task — exposing police corruption — expands on one of James’ enduring themes: the porous boundary between cop and villain. Adam Woog’s 10 best mysteries of 2013 2013-12-04T22:02:39Z

Cronyism, corruption and backward laws stymie the prosecution's case. 'Silenced': Haunting Korean tale of school abuse 2011-11-03T19:59:04Z

The "four book rule" had a lot of you incensed and AggieH caught the whiff of corruption; a conspiracy to hold back Robinson and "fix it for Capote"... The Great American Novelist tournament: the final 32 2012-07-23T15:19:53Z

What follows is a blackly comic portrait of the insidious corruption of power in which Roote finds himself increasingly cornered. The Hothouse – review 2013-05-09T23:06:09Z

There are still killings related to corruption and politics almost every day – not on the same scale, not civil war any more, but a steady drip-drip. Baghdad, Iraq: 10 years after Saddam 2013-03-17T00:05:30Z

Isaac Wade displays virtuosic range as a warmhearted housekeeper and as young Miles, whose apparent “corruption” hints at sexual victimization. Just in time for Halloween: An ingenious twist on an old-school ghost story 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

In a valedictory act of patriotism, McCain has clarified his principles, reviewed his mistakes, and called out the corruptions of the President. Remembering John McCain 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z

Too often, it must be said, they invited this; corruption, including bent umpiring, ball-tampering and, more recently, the blight of match-fixing, has been increasingly evident in Pakistani cricket, as in Pakistan. Batting for survival 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

He sang about election violence, corruption, unemployment and poverty. Sunil Perera, outspoken Sri Lankan singer, dies at age 68 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

With Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar - a director known for offbeat humor - as a producer, the darkly comic film has a serious undercurrent that speaks of corruption, the class system and the little guy being squeezed. Revenge comedy a hit in Cannes, fashion biopic cold-shouldered 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z

After that, waves of corruption, incompetence, media influence, human rights abuses and injustice closed over the Larranaga family's heads. The Crimson Petal and the White and Innocent! Paco & the Struggle for Justice: TV review 2011-04-07T07:00:00Z

Russia’s “Leviathan,” about a family man's struggle with government corruption, also was nominated. Oscars 2015: Foreign language film nominees led by 'Ida,' 'Leviathan' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

But as we learn in the “A Song of Ice and Fire” books, there might be some corruption at the Citadel. ‘House of the Dragon’: Who Is Otto Hightower, and Why Does He Matter? 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

And then we did an episode for the World Cup in Brazil, and we correctly predicted bribery and payoffs and corruption – and we were just making that up too. The Simpsons' Matt Groening: 'President Trump? It's beyond satire' | First Dog on the Moon 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

I see many similarities to what’s been happening today, with the entrenched corruption on Wall Street, its casino culture and bankster schemes that my father warned about. Superman: Forged by bullies! 2012-06-16T20:30:00Z

Collinson maintains that Snow Bear's Amlothi was probably a corruption of this Gaelic name, used to describe part of the grinding sea – a motif underlying the text's theme. Was the great Dane Irish? That is the question 2011-03-03T00:01:02Z

This David and Goliath legal drama, based on a true story, exposes the corruption and kickback schemes threatening the lives of millions of health care workers. ArtsBeat: Hello, Ozzy: Tribeca Lineup Adds Ozzy Osbourne and Carol Channing Documentaries 2011-03-14T16:00:16Z

It was a truly diabolical sight, the very symbol of moral corruption. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z

He quickly made two other highly regarded films with Mr. Kato, “Opium Heights: Hell Squad Attack,” about corruption in wartime China, and “Sentence: Eighteen Years.” Noboru Ando, 89, Mobster and Film Star in Japan, Dies 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

In any era of systemic corruption and malpractice, whistleblowers naturally emerge. 'We didn't ask permission': behind an explosive NYPD documentary 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

However, he rebels against their venality, immorality and general corruption and pays a terrible price for his decency and probity. The Light Thief ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:41Z

They’re camouflaged in the places you’d least expect to find them, much like the corruption and sin that the Gemstone family is frantically trying to conceal. What the megachurch tells us about evangelicals in HBO's "The Righteous Gemstones" 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

But Leviathan, a retelling of the Book of Job that hinges on a small-town mayor’s corruption, was paid for in part by Vladimir Putin’s Ministry of Culture. Everything You Need to Know About the Best Foreign Film Nominees 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Murder and corruption drive AMC's "Dark Winds," which was recently picked up for a second season, but the bright coming-of-age celebration in Episode 3, "K'e," provides a needed respite from all that. Empowering "Dark Winds" Navajo women: "As Native people, our continuing existence is a radical act" 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

Nicolas was already a figure of some notoriety as a former Belgian intelligence officer who in recent years had made dramatic accusations of government corruption. Myriam Ullens, Philanthropic Baroness With a Disputed Fortune, Dies at 70 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

“Usually, the media will expose police corruption,” says Jukes. Untold: Britain's dirtiest murder cover-up has become a must-listen podcast 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Liberia is the worst hit country where poverty, corruption and civil war have left a weak health system unable to cope with the exponential spread of the disease. Gay community under attack in Liberia over Ebola outbreak 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

He published more than 20 books, which ranged from lyrical accounts of the desert landscape to hard-edged investigations of political corruption, Mexican drug cartels and professional assassins. Charles Bowden, author of probing, lyrical accounts of the Southwest, dies at 69

The younger Biden was a director of a Ukrainian energy company at the time his father, the vice president, was beseeching Ukrainian officials to crack down on corruption. How a conservative columnist helped push a flawed Ukraine narrative 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Even if Lula were guilty of corruption—something that is never proven beyond a reasonable doubt—there is an unseemly vindictiveness in Moro’s treatment of the former President. The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

His alarming, riveting exposé portrays a multibillion industry plagued by violence, corruption, deprivation and incompetence. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

"It's always helpful to look at history," said Blagojevich, who was sentenced this month to 14 years in federal prison for corruption. Politics wreaked havoc on retirement code 2011-12-16T03:20:00Z

The film is a meditation on whether it’s possible to raise a child in this country, completely aside from any corruption. ‘Graduation’s’ Cristian Mungiu on ‘compromise as a personal choice and corruption as a social phenomenon’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Each story is told with a grim honesty that manages to veer from cliches about India's poverty and corruption. London Indian film festival shows subcontinent cinema in confident mood 2013-07-22T16:58:10Z

"The film is quite a scathing portrait of corruption, but you have this idealist who overcomes it. Capra admitted to me that he thought 'Mr. Smith' was his best film, not 'It's a Wonderful Life.' " Film's golden year, 1939, included 'Gone With the Wind,' 'Wizard of Oz' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

The film is by no means stellar; characterization remains rough, and the central ant-infestation metaphor of slow, inevitable corruption weighs down the picture with obviousness. 'The Maid's Room' adds suspense to class tensions 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Though ostensibly about the past, the series reflected the decade in which it was produced, depicting political corruption, inter-generational tension, conflict between men and women and a polite kind of class war. The new Upstairs, Downstairs is more period than drama 2010-12-27T12:00:00Z

Its criticisms of patriarchal authority, bureaucratic corruption and superstition in rural India are sharp and unsparing, but its political themes are embedded in a humanism that is at once expansive and specific. ‘Fire in the Mountains’ Review: The Mother of All Struggles 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

But because it glosses over or romanticizes the vigilante ruthlessness at the heart of lawman sanctity, the movie shrivels in comparison with the great studies of municipal and police corruption in the City of Angels. Gangster Squad: Heroes as Violent as the Villains 2013-01-11T18:15:43Z

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group that generally supports the Justice Department against politicians charged with corruption, took the unusual step of criticizing the prosecution of Edwards. John Edwards' trial to begin on Monday 2012-04-22T22:18:00Z

It introduces you to brutality and corruption in a country at the center of the United States’ war on drugs. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Fighting Terror and Corruption in Colombia 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

Not only Western influence, but also three centuries of Ottoman rule — the period when the fabric of most Arab cities was created — is seen as a form of corruption. Critic?s Notebook: Preserving Heritage, and the Fabric of Life, in Syria 2010-12-26T22:35:14Z

The surrealistically easy money they dispense, Neuman stresses, is actually a “resource curse” that all too often encouraged government profligacy, business corruption and civic complacency in the 20th century. The Disaster That Is Venezuela 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Malone isn’t just an epically brutal detective with sociopathic tendencies, he’s a product of a system in which corruption is the air cops breathe. After 'The Cartel,' Don Winslow's cop novel 'The Force' is sneakily subversive 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Amid a widening crackdown on corruption, China’s wealthiest citizens are increasingly seeking a better life abroad. As war on corruption mounts, China’s rich flee to America 2014-02-09T22:00:00Z

There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitation at home and abroad; corruption and money and privilege occluding the arteries of democracy. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

A play whose subject is corruption and whose language is pungent. Women Beware Women; Bingo 2010-05-01T23:11:00Z

In itself it's an extraordinary story, exposing incompetence and corruption, dodgy coppers and Colombian drug cartels, and to this day its protagonist remains behind bars – which is why Stafford Smith wrote the book. Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity' 2012-07-08T19:00:02Z

And an F.B.I. investigation of corruption in global soccer has cast a shadow over Qatar’s hosting of the tournament. 5 Books to Read About Qatar Before the World Cup 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z

He kept well away from any proper satire about the real meat of it all – corruption and abuse. Frankie Boyle puts his money where his mouth is – and Justin Bieber's life is a comedy 2012-12-18T16:01:23Z

Jokes fly about corruption, Maduro, and Ortega’s own precipitous fall from power. Laughing in crisis, Venezuelan acts out dissident Ortega's tale 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

His Marlowe is a lumbering, melancholy figure, not so much cynical as bored by the endless corruption and duplicity he encounters. ‘Marlowe’ Review: The Adventures of a Worn-Out Gumshoe 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

He is ranting about Coca-Cola and Pepsi, and says their network of corruption and collusion is killing Americans. Mr. CrossFit vs. Big Soda: A profane fitness guru’s wonky war with the soda industry 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Rod Blagojevich returns to his home after being sentenced to 14 years in his corruption trial. Blago judge: New trial request 'harebrained' 2011-12-19T17:49:00Z

In modern Hungary, the corruption and dishonesty of the governing Socialist party paved the way for Orban. Can It Happen Here? Madeleine Albright Examines Fascism Then and Now 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Thompson goes to Uruguay to find the puzzlingly hard-to-locate referee, but ends up uncovering more than he expected about the corruption, violence, and poverty of the world that produced Suárez. Weekend Reading: Soccer Violence, Nazi Hipsters, and More 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Gazing on his precisely arced diagrams of corruption and glad-handing feels like looking at some unfathomable astronomical phenomenon, too complex to be understood, alarming but awesome. How Conspiracy Theories Shape Art 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

It concerns a goldfish farmer contending with regional corruption in Iran. Summer Movies 2022: Here’s What’s Coming to Theaters and Streaming 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Reading them is like walking through a hotel room with an ultraviolet light: you start to see linguistic corruption and defilement everywhere. Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 2012-04-11T16:53:05Z

He plays Billy Taggart, a private detective in over his head, uncovering political corruption that goes right to the top. Mark Wahlberg: 'I've been hustling my entire life' 2013-02-17T20:00:03Z

His Falstaff, a Rabelaisian mountain of self-regard and corruption, should be anchored in a potent tale of casting aside foolishness in favor of duty. Review | The Folger turns one of Shakespeare’s histories into a problem play 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

She is one of a growing number of Nigerian holiday-makers keen to explore their country, one whose unenviable reputation for violent crime and corruption largely deters international travelers. Nigerian millennials fuel domestic tourism 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

There’s this kind of collision of a particular kind of politics and also law enforcement issues, lots of debate surrounding over-policing and corruption. "Proven Innocent" and the power of social justice TV: "Audiences aren't dumb. They're fascinated" 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

What is comic about suicide bombers and I.E.D.’s, or a nuclear-armed Pakistan, reeling from corruption, violence and chronic dysfunction? Books of The Times: Battle-Zone Absurdity and Adrenaline-Fueled Folly 2011-03-14T22:57:21Z

Leading his six-piece backing band through a roadhouse shuffle called “Lawless Times,” he rattled off a partial list of modern ills: police brutality, banking malfeasance, government corruption, online music piracy. Review: John Mellencamp, Still Defiant, at the Apollo Theater 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The all-star "American Hustle," about 1970s corruption which earlier Thursday received 10 Oscar nominations, was named best comedy film, with Amy Adams winning best comedy actress. '12 Years a Slave," 'American Hustle' win big at Critics Choice awards 2014-01-17T04:22:43Z

It’s bad enough that the six-episode series, beginning Thursday night on SundanceTV, is about violent crime, police corruption, racial tension and mental illness. Television Review: ‘The Red Road’ Debuts on SundanceTV 2014-02-26T20:22:49Z

Rankings are calculated using a number of factors including crime, healthcare, climate, corruption and censorship. Seeking a liveable city? Try Melbourne, skip Lagos and Damascus 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Movies, in contrast, are where we can unite in our hatred of politics and allow ourselves to dwell in a fantasy republic where the common good is served, corruption is vanquished, and reason prevails. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Campaign,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis 2012-08-10T03:56:14Z

Some of his later films play like inferior copies of his earlier classics; his last cop corruption thriller "Night Falls on Manhattan" was listless and redundant. Sidney Lumet, 1924-2011: He made movies for grownups 2011-04-09T22:45:00Z

The internment policy makes the systemic injustice impossible to ignore, and Hirabayashi becomes a lone citizen fighting government corruption in an increasingly dark saga. Review | When U.S. citizenship is anything but self-evident 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

And that challenge draws Noah into a world of poverty, drug use and police corruption that are totally alien to his privileged life as a university professor. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Clara is so opposed to authority that many critics see her character as a metaphor for the resistance to endemic government corruption in Brazil. Sônia Braga: ‘The Oscars only have four spaces for best actress – one is always reserved for Meryl Streep’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

I mean, the corruption that exists in the establishment is mind boggling, we really clock it. MC5’s Wayne Kramer on why Trump is “very much so like Richard Nixon” 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Yet this injustice does not deter her from exposing their faults: wife-beating, corruption, bigotry against Jews, Gypsies and Romanians termed "Wallachians". Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z

But the outgoing administration was marked by corruption and allegations of insider dealing with contractors, which helped propel Lopez Obrador to the presidency July 1. Mexico vote cancels partly built $13 billion airport 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The novel, depicting a peasant uprising and corruption, was banned in China. Chinese Nobel winner: Politics a great challenge 2012-12-07T18:30:17Z

The last three hundred years have proved democracy to be the best of governments when it works well, the worst when bedeviled by divisiveness, disorganization, chaos, and corruption. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Benjamin Voisin plays Lucien, a young poet from the provinces who is all too happy to savor the corruptions of the capital. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

For good measure it also introduces an overall seasonal arc meant to explore the political corruption. "Tommy" is bracing and earnestly woke, maybe even too much for CBS' audience 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

In the decades that followed independence, Bangladesh wavered between civilian and military rule and its citizens grew accustomed to endemic political corruption, unexplained disappearances and murders, and vigorous street protests. A Daughter of Bangladeshi Revolutionaries Makes Sense of Life After War 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

In “The Designated Mourner,” Shawn, who plays Jack, partly recapitulates that trauma, though the character’s infidelity with Peg is one of the smaller indicators of corruption. From the Schlump With the Shiv, Two Plays Turned Podcasts 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z

Twice, she said, she fought against the decay, the rampant bureaucracy, the corruption: first as the dean of the ballet institute and then briefly as the first director of the new opera house. A Ballerina’s Story, Once Upon a Time in Egypt 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

In this rarely seen Ibsen drama about ambition, corruption and redemption, Mr. Rickman plays the title character, a former banker who was convicted of embezzling funds. The Week Ahead: Jan. 9 ? 15 2011-01-07T17:43:18Z

The film focuses on Trejo's character, Machete, a renegade who's fighting against corruption in the United States and Mexico. Robert Rodriguez unveils `Machete' at Comic-Con 2010-07-23T12:01:00Z

He also addressed Haiti's infamous corruption by saying that he wants to pay people a minimum wage and pay public servants on time. APNewsBreak: Jean seeks dual citizenship for Haiti 2010-08-15T01:34:00Z

As with so many others who go to Hollywood with big dreams only to find that fame is beyond their reach, Elms is unprepared for an industry so consumed with exploitation and corruption. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

For one thing, and this may surprise you, but everything the Democrats are doing in the effort to impeach Trump is meant to cover up their own corruption. How One America News sells an altered reality 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

But the influx of drug money also led to corruption and match-fixing and violence inside and outside the stadium. Film examines Colombian soccer's Faustian bargain 2010-04-26T19:42:00Z

Crime fiction, which often connects low-level crime to high-level corruption, can help us understand the operations and effects of a Trump presidency that unabashedly favors strongmen of all kinds. Viet Thanh Nguyen: By the Book 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Jane Corbin follows him across swamped Sindh, tracing a journey that reveals not only the scale of this recent catastrophe, but Pakistan's wider problems: poverty, corruption, and the blight of fundamentalism. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

Cellini's more than three-week trial, defense attorneys repeatedly questioned Levine's credibility, highlighting his history of drug abuse and his guilty plea to corruption charges. Cellini jurors: The tapes told the tale 2011-11-02T12:30:00Z

This episode of Boardwalk Empire was definitely theatrical, and like Webster’s The White Devil, rife with vengeance and corruption. Boardwalk Empire Watch: Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? 2011-12-05T14:41:07Z

His last film, “Rajneeti,” a sort of “Mahabharata” meets “The Godfather,” set in present-day Bhopal, was about corruption in a dynastic ruling family. | 'Aarakshan': A Battle for India?s Soul 2011-08-12T12:21:08Z

When he felt the corruption in the New Orleans Police Department, he was astonished and felt for the first time like an outsider. In solving his own son's murder, "The Pharmacist" also took on the opioid epidemic 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

“The corruption investigations resulted in a collective shrug; the impeachment proceedings failed to pass; and the economy remained white hot, which apparently was all that mattered.” The First Lady Asks an Unknown Reporter to Write Her Biography. Why? 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

The institutions that are viewed as leading to women’s progress — progress in your terms and my terms — become targets of attack, and the West, broadly speaking, is viewed as a major source of this corruption. The war on female sexuality: Is globalization to blame? 2013-01-05T23:00:00Z

In Essos In a callback to his days as the Hand of the King, Tyrion is again running a “grand old city choking on violence, corruption and deceit,” and has Varys at his side. Is He Really Dead? And Where Does 'Game of Thrones' Stand for Season 6? 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

It’s a tale that unfolds over 13 episodes with sly, convoluted twists on family politics, class and New Jersey corruption. | 'Lights Out': With a Life on the Ropes, Seeking Redemption in the Ring 2011-01-10T23:08:16Z

Once a friend introduced him to a lobbyist who had gotten into trouble: a guy named Jack Abramoff, who was about to be imprisoned in a 2006 corruption case. Webb Hubbell, writing his way to reclamation

As Saunt meticulously documents, combing through government records and contemporaneous testimony, Indigenous people were caught in the teeth of a vast bureaucracy that combined penny-pinching austerity with terrible management, corruption and chaos on the ground. ‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

The home-style meals made by women who have lived through economic crashes, earthquakes, and decades of political corruption, offer a brief sense of belonging in a miniature portion of bananas tossed in cream. The enduring comfort of comida corrida 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

He understood, as Corbett wrote in a fine memoir about Guston’s late work, that “the human reality of American corruption and political violence is not simply a matter of us and them.” Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Because much of his message is an important one: Secrecy promotes corruption. When is transparency too radical? Never, says Julian Assange — and that’s crazy. 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

As is always true with political money, there is no easy way to delineate where ideology ends and where self-interest and corruption begin. ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare's work was a rich stew of new twists on old stories, experimental poetry and folk tradition, clever ways of commenting on state violence and corruption without ending up in the Tower. Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain? 2012-05-19T11:00:01Z

Yet as Nigeria approaches a critical presidential election next year and corruption still pervades life, no one mentioned it in the air-conditioned comfort of the hotel ballroom where the ceremony took place. Singer 2 Face wins MTV Africa artist of the year 2010-12-12T01:16:00Z

That slap parallelled a slap in the first episode, when a younger, more naïve Alicia had slapped her husband for his cheating and corruption, and for leaving their family exposed with his lies. Goodbye to “The Good Wife” 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

He’d assigned them to investigate last year’s scandal involving a slew of leaked confidential Vatican documents and letters that purported to show corruption and internal conflict within the Holy See. Did a gay blackmail scandal bring down the pope? 2013-02-22T19:56:00Z

A combination of a lack of statistics, corruption claims and international indifference meant they were barely reported on. Big picture: Floods, by Gideon Mendel 2013-01-04T22:59:35Z

It deals with corruption and cruelty, the pain of mothers separated from their children and an unquenchable spirit of goodness. The Orphan of Zhao – review 2012-11-09T01:02:50Z

Engaging the entire community in decision-making processes would help to prevent this corruption. South Africa’s small-scale fishers have been marginalized since apartheid 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

For a long time — going back at least to the Al Capone era — Chicago and Illinois have been known for high levels of public corruption, Simpson said. Chicago area tops in public corruption: study 2012-02-15T15:31:00Z

Post-Frank: Rachel's gone, leaving her ex Lisa in despair, hooked on heroin and desperately trying to convince the media she has proof of Underwood’s corruption. The Most Shocking Revelations From House of Cards Season 5 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

He followed it up two years later with the Los Angeles Police Department corruption tale "Rampart." Oren Moverman hopes 'Time Out of Mind' spotlights homelessness 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The January 16 event took place three days after a former publicist filed a lawsuit accusing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association of corruption, and Gervais wasted little time belittling the group during his monologue. Gervais says NBC wants him to host Globes again 2011-02-02T03:42:49Z

I’ve gotten to know a lot of the industry personalities that Gamergate has targeted for bizarre charges of “corruption” and “nepotism” since this mess started. I’m not “that creepy guy from the Internet”: How Gamergate gave the geek community a bad name 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s an ironclad example of how corruption is engendered by the system,” said Gibney. The Innocence Files: a shocking Netflix series on wrongful convictions 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

In "The Cartel," Winslow tells a version of the power, corruption and extreme violence of the narco-trafficking world. The 'El Chapo' escape: When real life mimics fiction 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

From the president down to the policeman on the street, government is characterized by cronyism and corruption. The guide Jennifer Lopez should have read before she sang in Turkmenistan 2013-07-01T16:23:08Z

The squalor and vigor, the glory and corruption of the Republic in action have all too rarely made it onto the big screen. Movie Review: ‘Lincoln,’ by Steven Spielberg, Stars Daniel Day-Lewis 2012-11-08T13:00:00Z

Twenty-seven years ago I wrote a pamphlet called 'Trouble in Nigeria', which was about corruption. Chinua Achebe: A life in writing 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

Turns out she fled her previous job in Philadelphia after setting off a corruption investigation against a colleague, and now his former partner, her nemesis, has found her in Wyoming. ‘Longmire,’ a Crime Drama on A&E Starring Robert Taylor 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

Both the writer and his troublemaking character are seasoned ironists, expert connoisseurs of corruption. Books of The Times: ?The Master Blaster? by P. F. Kluge 2012-03-25T21:54:42Z

Both allude to the endemic racism that’s rooted deep in American power, and both movies link racism to official corruption. “Superfly,” Reviewed: A Classic Remade for a Gun-Mad Age 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Referees are trained to ignore the crowd, and there’s no evidence thus far of corruption at the tournament. Brazil's Home-Field World Cup Advantage? The Refs 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

Some time later, just as the Rajneesh movement was imploding in a cloud of its own corruption, Anne left too. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

Riddled with guilt, he's drawn into a web of corruption and professional intrigue that wraps itself around the local criminal justice system. The Place Beyond the Pines – review 2013-04-13T23:07:32Z

The retrievers’ purpose is to protect the local powers that be, who might be punished by the central government if there are too many credible reports of corruption or unfairness. | ?Petition?: In China, You Can?t Fight City Hall 2011-01-14T00:04:43Z

It's hard to get a sense of the scale of deprivation in the flats, nor do we witness the worst excesses of council corruption. Kora – review 2013-05-28T17:12:04Z

The perceived inaccessibility of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with its extreme poverty, ongoing conflicts, corruption and lack of basic public facilities, provides a barrier to musical tourists. Congo, where rumba meets r'n'b 2011-03-22T18:51:50Z

But WikiLeaks hasn’t received the attention that a few years ago made it arguably the top source for exposés of government and industrial corruption. Julian Assange and The Fifth Estate: Wiki Wacky Who? 2013-09-08T20:27:10Z

The former governor is set to begin a 14-year sentence for corruption Thursday at a federal prison in Colorado. Blago leaves home for Colorado prison 2012-03-15T11:31:00Z

Cicero made his name, for example, as a young Roman lawyer with his series of speeches, in 70 B.C., that attacked the shocking corruption of the former governor of Sicily, Gaius Verres. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

Those wrongful actions might refer to witness coercion and intimidation, racial profiling, unwarranted force, abuses of power and corruption and other examples. Are crime shows slowing justice reform? Here's the insidious storytelling bias miseducating viewers 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

But “Supernotes” situates itself as neither memoir nor exposé, and so the enormity of that central secret — allegations about international corruption and U.S. culpability — is undercut by blurriness about where fact ends and fiction begins. ‘Supernotes’: The CIA asked for his help — but then threw him away 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Once he rises to the top of the heap, Stark — allegedly based on real-life politico Huey Long — bathes daily in a swamp of corruption, including casual infidelity. Sex sins of mighty are old hat in literature 2011-06-15T22:06:00Z

The Government Inspector New adaptation of Gogol’s satire about corruption in czarist Russia; for ages 12 and up. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 15-22: 'Bright Star,' 'In the Heights' and more 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

The “Mission: Impossible” and “Jason Bourne” franchises are both about renegades escaping government entrapment; “The Wire” and “The Shield” express suspicion and disillusionment about corruption and dysfunction in public institutions. Our post-Snowden TV paranoia: “Homeland,” “Quantico” and privacy inside the surveillance state 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Cupidity and corruption perform, year after year, their reverse magic. Review: Mischa Berlinski’s ‘Peacekeeping,’ a Portrait of Haiti 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

In January 2011, Beijing’s prestigious People’s University began offering a master’s degree in how to investigate corruption. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z

Based in Charleston, S.C., it follows a young lawyer’s descent into a black hole of police corruption. Plenty of new shows to check out this spring and summer 2014-04-25T18:58:31Z

The film records the destruction of houses and temples, the mistreatment of migrants and corruption and mismanagement of local officials and contractors. Zhang Zanbo: A Chinese Documentary Filmmaker Returns to His Roots 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

It’s another black-humor genre piece, a neo-noir set in an alternate New York where crime and corruption are a little more ubiquitous and a lot more romantic than in real life. ‘Ultra City Smiths’ Review: New York Neo-Noir, With Plastic Dolls 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Far better than the glossy film adaptation that followed it, Paul Abbott’s taut, twisty corruption drama felt like the perfect political thriller for the New Labour age. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

They are the human heart in a parable of greed and corruption, not revolution, making beasts of men. NoViolet Bulawayo Allegorizes the Aftermath of Robert Mugabe 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

Twain, then 29, wrote humorously about miners, cops and corruption. Lost Mark Twain newspaper stories recovered by UC Berkeley scholars 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

He also said the scandal and corruption did not play a role in his resignation. Reading the Signs When a Couple of Papal Pals Get to Talking 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Sandra voices this idea late in the season, when her editor wants to ax a portion about police corruption from her exposé. Review: HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ Works a Vibrant Hustle in the Naked City 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Apocalyptic scenes of poverty, corruption and violence greet us. ‘Big Men’ follows the flow of a Ghanaian oil discovery 2014-04-17T20:37:25Z

“No more corruption,” a local told me later, “but less skiers.” Skiing Kosovo, Abandoned Lifts and All 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Moore has had a front row seat to all of this corruption as a Baltimorean. "It's not a enough to indict individuals; we have to indict systems": Author Wes Moore on racism 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

In the 1990s, artists like Marilyn Manson, who has a minor role in the final chaotic scenes of “Lost Highway,” also confronted audiences with imagery of decadence, corruption and social decay. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

The undertow of sexual corruption, innocence bespoiled and generic neurosis leaves you gasping for air. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z

Cuba’s rules and regulations are constantly in flux, followed with extreme corruption and a prosperous black market that locals must depend on to live their daily lives. A recipe for Cuba's national dish, ropa vieja, or rags, from the new book "Cuban Flavor" 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Lawlessness, political corruption and family intrigues all combine to reveal a raw, bloodthirsty and blistering side of the country that few in the west will otherwise see. Gangs of Wasseypur – review 2013-02-21T22:10:01Z

But when one of his fellow professors is arrested in the classroom, and when one of his students urges him to help her battle corruption, well, it’s not long before he’s in the game. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

But they also paint a grandly scaled portrait of political corruption on both sides of the border, particularly in the States. When American Filmmakers Try to Cross the Border 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Although corruption was one of the main themes of “Baron Noir’s” first season, the screenwriters chose to avoid it in the latest one. On TV, France’s New President Is Young, Centrist and Female 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

Steer jobs and cash to friends and fam, They, too, get rich off Uncle Sam; Constant corruption, no interruption; Plunder D.C. Style Invitational Week 1314: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

This classic neo-noir — in which the rich get richer, the disenfranchised drown, and corruption is rampant — is a staunch reminder that the world we live in is a scary, scary place. The Best Movies For Getting Over Your Ex 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

It's the perfect vantage from which to peer down on a rats' nest of corruption, a climate where the drug dealers, cops and politicians are locked together in a depraved konga line of backhanders. Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within ? review 2011-08-11T20:50:00Z

The journalist and human rights activist Azimjon Askarov is serving a life sentence on charges that are seen as politically motivated, and corruption is still a problem, but is improving. The guide Jennifer Lopez should have read before she sang in Turkmenistan 2013-07-01T16:23:08Z

And given that Sistema is a branch of the only government in which music education is a constitutional right, Dudamel is inevitably associated with a Venezuelan regime accused of corruption and human rights violations. Diplomatic Dudamel leads a fervent Beethoven charge at Disney Hall 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

I don’t mean corruption in the City Hall way, I mean, like rust. Queens of the Stone Age, Redefining Itself to Renew Its Sound 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

She is more determined than ever to get to the heart of this realm of corruption, and the rest of the book digs deeper and deeper into an elaborate crime scheme. Review: In John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler,’ a Serious Woman and Serious Crime 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Set in the inner circle of a crooked provincial government, Wang's novel depicts politics, corruption, and intrigue in a dirty race for mayor. 2009-12-31T18:18:00Z

But corruption, as “Cartel Land” shows, fails to convey the extent of the problem: in a place like Michoacán, there is no accountable government; no public trust exists that can be broken. The Missing Story of the Drug War 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

Stubbs, best known as an animal painter, created the little 1791 watercolor portrait here of Warren Hastings, first governor-general of India under British colonial rule, while Hastings was being prosecuted for corruption. Art Review: ?A Passion for Drawings,? Charles Ryskamp?s Bequest, at Frick 2012-02-23T23:27:54Z

Whitman wrote that “probably every spear of grass rises out of what was once a catching disease,” and Earth “grows such sweet things out of such corruptions.” The essential compost pile

The streaming series' 13-episode first season, released earlier this month, chronicles Matt Murdock's struggle to erase graft and corruption from the neighborhood where he grew up. Netflix renews 'Daredevil' for second season 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

In less than two hours, a film that started off criticizing art as a commodity lands on a profoundly more nihilistic view: Art is a corruption, a taint, a kind of virus in society. Perspective | Netflix’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a revenge fantasy against elites — making it perfect for the age of Trump 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Completed 2009 Beyond the Beltway, “K Street” has become slang for lobbyists and, for some, political corruption. 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

To the film-makers, corruption is a process of decay and erosion. Portrait of a country 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

But a military coup at the end of the 60s led to two decades of misrule and corruption, and then to civil war. The World's Most Dangerous Place by James Fergusson – review 2013-02-04T08:00:01Z

Line of Duty, a five-part series, features an officer investigating alleged corruption within a police serious crime unit. Cardiac Arrest creator Jed Mercurio to make BBC2 police drama 2011-03-15T18:14:29Z

The Chicago area logged the most public corruption convictions of any federal jurisdiction in the United States during the past 36 years, according to a report released today by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago area tops in public corruption: study 2012-02-15T15:31:00Z

Axelrod was an impressive political reporter, drawn to colorful characters and hints of corruption. Political consultant David Axelrod delivers in revealing 'Believer' 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

There has been some suggestion online that Burris has been working secretly to bring the corruption of Vinci’s officials to light. True Detective: season two, episode six recap – Church in Ruins 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Here they take a similarly irreverent approach to politics, spotlighting hypocrisy, corruption and incompetence in government while also taking joy in purely ludicrous moments like Rudy Giuliani’s melting face. 8 Podcasts to Help Make Sense of Post-Trump America 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

Fleck is beset with a host of personal issues, but the world “out there” is a powder keg of lawlessness, inequality, corruption, cuts and all-round despair. ‘He is a psychopath’: has the 2019 Joker gone too far? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

But dark information about corruption and female infanticide emerges and the waters are muddied. Who should win the Costa? 2011-01-25T16:23:35Z

But even if you managed to banish this source of amicable corruption, there’d be another — at school, on the playground or, my personal favorite, the profane, drunken fan in Row 12. Carolyn Hax: Parental guidance suggested, but don’t go overboard 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

The cinema, seen as emblematic of corruption, “westoxification” and the decadence of the ousted Pahlavi regime, was consigned to oblivion. How Iran's 'filmfarsi' remains the biggest secret in cinema history 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

And its tableau of political corruption feels even more relevant today than it did in 2015. The Second Season of ‘True Detective’ Wasn’t as Bad as You Think. Here’s Why. 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

He has threatened to shut down newspapers like the Washington Post that dare to criticize him by exposing his likely criminal behavior and naked corruption. When a cartoonist becomes a hero: Rob Rogers on losing his job for making fun of Donald Trump 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

Michael Hershman founded Transparency International, an NGO combating corruption and money laundering. What it was like to be 18 and investigating the president during the summer of Watergate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Dr. Smile delivers a speech in defense of corruption, which he views as a form of efficiency—applying grease to squeaky wheels. Salman Rushdie on Corruption and the Opioid Crisis 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

It quickly became apparent, however, that Trebek and the “Jeopardy!” team weren’t going to address corruption or inequity any time soon. “Jeopardy!” features a “stay woke” category, entire internet cringes 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z

The very concepts of art, culture and creativity are debased by Hall's unquestioning reruns of the philistine corruptions of Thatcher-Blairspeak. Letters: There's more to life than gross domestic product 2010-04-01T23:05:00Z

The new book will follow on from the tale of murder, corruption and family secrets told in the original trilogy and feature its central players. Dragon Tattoo sequel to be written 2013-12-17T17:59:41Z

The visitor is buying Pacifico’s land and wonders aloud to his captive audience about why Italy puts up with corruption. Review: ‘The Creation of Meaning’ Views an Economically Torn Italy in Echoes of Earlier Days 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

And gender is not any barrier to this corruption, either. On “Succession,” Shiv weaponizes womanhood 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

The results recall Colby Caldwell’s series of digital abstractions based on a corrupted computer file, but in Dana’s work the corruption is intentional. In the galleries: A painter’s progress revealed 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

A brief tour of recent history helps too, by establishing how Zelenskyy differs from the previous oligarchs who earned Ukraine's government a reputation for unfettered corruption. Sean Penn's "Superpower" renews Zelenskyy's relationship with Hollywood to sell the politics of war 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z

Her stories, which are often set in West Africa, use the framework of fantasy to explore weighty social issues: racial and gender inequality, political violence, the destruction of the environment, genocide and corruption. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

These worldly garments are evidence of the long history of corruption in Catholicism that led to Martin Luther and the reformation. The Costume Institute Takes On Catholicism 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Bernstorff says she hopes the coordinated events bring attention not just to the Iguala tragedy but also to the greater issues of government corruption and police violence worldwide, particularly against men and women of color. A poster exhibit stopping in L.A. gives voice to Mexico's missing 43 students 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Now," he continues, "when you get that sort of authority, in any set-up, the potential for corruption is wide open. 'This wretched church' 2010-04-19T07:00:00Z

Before the poisoning and before his name was dominating global headlines, I knew that he was this opposition guy who was sort of funny and meme-y and was trying to fight corruption in Russia. The Dangerous Challenge of Making a Film About Aleksei Navalny 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Also worth thanks is that after nearly 50 years of thinking about it, Geoffrey Ward decided to share his family story, one that reveals how deeply rooted financial corruption is in the nation's history. 'A Disposition to Be Rich': a financial scoundrel in the late 1800s 2012-05-16T18:48:05Z

The film points to a number of holes in his conviction and suggests widespread corruption in that country. Tribeca documentaries examine bullying and toxicity 2011-04-24T14:08:49Z

She was charged with blasphemy, corruption of youth and disrespect for the Islamic Republic when she was arrested in October 2019. Instagram star nicknamed 'zombie Angelina Jolie' freed from jail on bail: report 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

And she does her most artful work in conjuring the corruption and ambient menace of Lagos, as Korede perceives it. Helping Out Family Is Taken to Extremes in ‘My Sister, the Serial Killer’ 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

“They think money corrupts in politics, and they’re looking to stop that … ‘corruption,’” Kelly says. Jon Stewart smacks down Megyn Kelly for hypocrisy over GOP corruption 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The Wire avoided victories, preferring to show corruption, failure and decay. The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We tore the cover off a city and showed the American dream was dead’ 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

There was, however, a powerful sense of isolation and a good deal of nonchalant corruption. ‘Sepa: Our Lord of Miracles’ Review: A Prison in the Amazon Jungle 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Oliver also mocked China’s “Belt and Road” initiative, its ongoing crackdown on corruption, and moves to censor online images of the cartoon bear Winnie the Pooh, said to resemble Xi. China's Weibo blocks comedian John Oliver after Xi Jinping roasting 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

While the Western media concentrated on the politics of reform, many on the streets were protesting as much about bread prices as corruption. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z

Skewering the international financial system, with its rampant corruption and irrational exuberance, is familiar literary fodder. Susan Minot’s ‘Thirty Girls,’ and More 2014-02-26T21:15:54Z

In a letter dated 1526, he wrote, “This corruption and depravity are so widespread that our land is entirely depopulated.” An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

But we see its effects in action, as all-powerful men brazenly run roughshod over courtrooms, proving that oligarchical corruption is officially codified into the judiciary. "The Good Fight" dreams up a Hillary Clinton timeline we've all wondered about 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Highlighting corruption, Africa’s leadership crises, and popular resistance to tyranny, the novel brings women characters to the fore — partly in response to criticism of their backseat role in earlier works. Remembering Chinua Achebe 2013-03-22T17:48:00Z

Nonverbal and experiential, this and “Beautiful Monster” explored corruption and power dynamics. Review: A ‘Punk Ballerina’ Turns to Film and Fashion 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

He remains energetically and profitably exasperated, committed to exposing corruption, the abuse of language, the exploitation of people and assorted foolishness of all kinds. In Alan Bennett’s Diaries, Life’s Pleasures Alongside Civic Outrage 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

It will also include stories about "the effects of witnessing corruption and violence" in Medellin, Colombia, where Juanes grew up, as well as "the regret and remorse surrounding his father's death." Colombian superstar Juanes writes 1st book 2013-01-24T19:40:09Z

“This is precisely the reason for the investigation. There are many elements that lead us to believe there is a system of corruption, not only with one official, but a general system.” The Billionaire Who Bought Trump’s Mansion Faces Scrutiny in Monaco 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Morrison died only days after two mass shootings, which are not only a regular fixture of American life, but also a recurring reminder of our political paralysis and the corruption of our democracy. Perspective | Obituaries are the only redemptive news anymore 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Parts of Yonkers are already becoming newly vernal, although the city has a reputation still marred by government corruption and school budget and desegregation battles. Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers Is Being Tended Once Again 2012-07-19T21:45:31Z

Lionel is the little guy who sticks his nose where it doesn’t belong and sniffs out the corruption of the big shots — the racism, petty cruelty and sexual depravity underneath the grand conspiracies. ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Joo is an idealist who tries to fight the deceit and corruption around him but is soon lured into the chaebol's schemes, becoming an unwitting henchman. Raw, gritty film takes on Korea's powerful chaebol 2012-06-13T05:15:55Z

But what’s more surprising than the corruption of Consilience is the quick collapse of this potentially insightful novel about unbridled capitalism. Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’: A satire of unbridled capitalism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Republicanism was often used to describe a language of dissent – aimed at arbitrary government, against political corruption or anyone who put their own interest before that of the public. 'There is now a republican movement': anti-royal campaigners get organised 2013-07-19T17:59:00Z

World War I has just ended, but evergreen themes abound: environmental catastrophe, mine safety and corporate corruption. New Books by Ivan Doig, Ayelet Waldman and Lily King 2010-07-14T22:50:00Z

In the haunting “Dream of Ding Village”, an HIV epidemic caused by contaminated blood plasma shows how corruption ripens into tragedy. Build, and they will come 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

For two years, the N.G.O. had worked to produce a new record that compiles punk songs from the eighties and nineties protesting corruption and repression. Reviving Venezuelan Punk, the Music of Revolution 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z

With his ebony mask, the flowing black cape, and that ominous breathing, this fallen knight is the embodiment of evil and corruption. Star Trek v Star Wars: Star Trek v Star Wars: fans weigh in on the timeless debate 2013-05-17T13:50:00Z

They revealed the inevitable psychic corruption of humans owning humans, brought out the sexual component of oppression in any form and implied a country still shaped by the original sin of slavery. Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

In a stinging rebuke at the time, the veteran judge accused Blagojevich of eroding the public trust and spoke of a need for tougher penalties to curb corruption. Blagojevich judge urges students to keep the faith in public officials 2012-04-20T11:00:00Z

Following protests by millions, Park was ousted from office in March 2017 and is now serving a decades-long prison term for corruption. Bong’s ‘Parasite’ focuses on plight of South Korea’s poor 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

A once prominent Greek socialist politician who held nearly a dozen ministerial positions over two decades but later fell from grace, was convicted and imprisoned in one of Greece’s highest profile corruption trials. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The sections that focus on corruption, show biz, and Trumpworld are much stronger, especially in the second episode, which comes out this Friday. “Public Official A,” Reviewed: The Sins of Rod Blagojevich Are the Sins of Our Time 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

So now Paul’s dead, a victim of both government corruption and his own homophobia. “True Detective” recap: A shocking death, a burning empire and a moment of comfort for Ani and Ray 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

And in Bogotá, Colombia, traffic police were replaced with mimes in the hope of supplanting corruption and violence with playful street theater. Art Review: Noguchi Museum Features Art as Urban Planning - Review 2011-12-08T23:42:53Z

The film looks into how several meat packing plants transformed into Covid super spreaders, all thanks to corporate corruption coupled with Trump's blatant disregard for public health guidelines. “Food, Inc.” sequel premieres at Telluride Film Festival, 15 years after the acclaimed documentary 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

But despite its light tone and slightly enforced happy ending, the comedy is a thin crust covering a dark world of criminality and corruption. Sugar Daddies – review 2013-03-12T18:58:22Z

What if the Roman Empire — with all its decadence, corruption and power-grabbing rulers left unchecked by an oddly docile Senate — never really ended? In the Met Opera’s ‘Agrippina,’ the Roman Empire Never Ended 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

He's proof that this apparently slight movie expansion understands the stealth with which corruption asserts itself. Making "Cobra Kai" great again: The series returns with a parable about the peril of bipartisanship 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

A husband executes his wife on the flimsiest evidence of infidelity, and corruption invades the highest places so that rulers use authority for sexual advantage. One Thousand and One Nights ? review 2011-08-22T12:34:36Z

“Timon” hardly represents Shakespeare at his most subtle or dramatically engaging, but the title figure can singe the eyebrows with his exhausting execrations against society and its corruptions. | 'Timon of Athens': A Dinner of Water and Stones for Those Friends Who Don?t Come Through 2011-03-02T03:01:04Z

This month, the European Union promised a €105m conservation fund, and protection to ensure it is not diverted into bureaucracy or corruption. British Museum to showcase relics from Pompeii and Herculaneum 2013-02-24T15:21:57Z

More than those films, “The Irishman” suggests a world outside of lives dedicated to greed, brutality and corruption — a world lost to its characters but not to De Niro, Pacino and Scorsese. Scorsese, De Niro and Pacino on time and ‘The Irishman’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

“We must not hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.” Can Spain’s monarchy be saved? It’s up to King Felipe VI and his commoner queen. 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

I don't mean the events that led to the riots, or the police corruption; I mean the testosterone-misogyny cocktail that courses through the veins of 99% of the male characters. TV review: Life of Crime 2013-05-11T07:00:39Z

This autumn will see the launch of Force, about a policeman who, stymied by corruption and procedures, takes the law into his own hands: India's own Dirty Hari, if you like. Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood's social conscience 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z

“Despite some trust-busting,” Vidal writes, “he never took on the great ring of corruption that ruled and rules in this republic.” Civil war at the cineplex: “American Sniper,” “Selma” and the battle over American masculinity 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

It circles back to this terrible, despairing idea of looking back nostalgically and looking forward, and feeling that there is a cycle of corruption and futility. Why the bleak film classic "Chinatown" is our new reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

When the cinema opened within a month of the pacification, Elite Squad 2 – a tale of police fighting, gangs, militias and corruption on the streets of Rio's favelas – was not on the programme. Rio's first favela cinema brings normality to a once-brutal district 2012-10-09T16:45:59Z

Their descriptions, it turned out, uniformly reflected weariness with government corruption, Vladi­mir Putin’s long tenure, effectively 15 years, and a lack of personal opportunity they perceived amid the country’s financial struggles. Into the Baltic Sea, but out of the Cold: Revisiting Berlin and St. Petersburg 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

The last season dangled the prospect that the corruption that AC-12 has been sniffing out could be very close to home. Partridge, politics and period pomp: the must-see TV shows of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

The judge said he was expressing no view as to whether the concerns of either side were supported by proof of improper political influence, corruption or other misconduct affecting the Ecuadorean proceedings. Maker of film 'Crude' ordered to turn over footage 2010-05-06T23:46:00Z

And unfortunately, in Wayne's case, it was a fertile field for corruption. Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

He has said he exposes public figures where he believes there is some hypocrisy and corruption. Max Clifford: The fallen king of spin 2014-04-28T14:09:34Z

The final chapter is an exhortation to better governance, in which he examines corruption, ethnic bigotry, state failure and the steps Nigeria must take to rehabilitate itself. There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe - review 2012-10-05T21:55:01Z

In 2011 California lawmakers made a strong push to disband the city and absorb it into greater Los Angeles County, citing decades of corruption. The Real Town Behind 'True Detective' Season 2 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

In a live broadcast about corruption, calls out Putin, and basically accuses him of corruption. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

By simply describing Abdul’s experiences at the hands of India’s criminal justice system, she reveals a degree of casual corruption that would stun even the most jaded cynic. Books of The Times: Katherine Boo?s First Book, ?Behind the Beautiful Forevers? 2012-01-30T23:08:37Z

Underneath the giggles, there are actually some points in here, about hypocrisy, injustice, greed and corruption. TV review: The Revolution Will Be Televised 2012-08-22T21:30:02Z

His 1977 film "Man of Marble" was censored by Communist officials angered by its portrayal of political corruption in the early 1950s Stalinist period, shown through the fall from grace of a Stakhanovite bricklayer. Polish film director Wajda dies aged 90 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

“The Ambassador” is both a satire of European cynicism and an exposé of African corruption, but a crucial element of social or ethical concern is missing. Movie Review: ‘The Ambassador,’ Directed by Mads Brugger 2012-08-28T20:47:59Z

From this one-act bagatelle you may not guess Molière's original intent: to skewer the corruption and ignorance of the medical fraternity he knew — his frequent satirical target. Review: Intiman's 'Doctor' is in, with raucous results 2010-09-14T04:01:00Z

Those are the things that hobbits embody, and inherently why they’re able to withstand the corruption of the Ring for longer than humans. Elijah Wood on ‘The Lord of the Rings’ at 20 and Being Frodo to Fans Forever 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

In the former camp, there’s Steven Spielberg’s Pentagon Papers drama The Post, a tale of journalists battling government corruption, hurried through production so that it could be in multiplexes before Trump’s first year was over. Richard Linklater on Last Flag Flying: 'We're not meant to kill. We're not cut out for it' 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z

With each mile he takes northwards, the poverty and corruption worsens and Theroux's spirits sink even further. The Last Train to Zona Verde by Paul Theroux – review 2013-06-01T14:00:01Z

This radiochemical shift from purity to corruption leads into the book's first — and most disturbing — chapter. A boatload of ideas are packed into Simon Winchester's literary cruise across Pacific Rim's recent history 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

She's chief again, and she is up against huge political obstructions, fiefdoms, networks and corruption, where the system that she had done so well with long ago has been run into the ground. There are some mysteries Patricia Cornwell, crime novelist and creator of Kay Scarpetta, can't crack 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

An episode touching on police corruption, sexual hypocrisy and a revelation rooted in the past is the best in the series so far, even if its resolution verges on the hokey. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 26-30 November 2012-11-26T07:00:00Z

But it’s a dark, bitter milkshake that “Riverdale” concocts, built on the suspicion that any town this squeaky clean must be hiding decay, corruption and secrets. Review: In ‘Riverdale,’ Archie Is Hot and Haunted 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Decades of systemic corruption and widespread apathy in Romania’s health care system created many difficult-to-watch scenes in “Collective.” Oscar-nominated Romanian film reveals health care failings 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

They are, at best, a mess and, at worst, moral cesspools, polluted by greed, lust for power, political corruption and a system built on what one character refers to as “toxic masculinity.” Review: In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

The alert reader will also get an introduction to New Jersey politics and its reputation for corruption. Review: `The Jersey Sting' tells of FBI raid 2011-03-23T18:12:14Z

The film addresses political corruption, media monopoly and corporate power. Filmmaker cries censorship as Italy political documentary blocked 2013-02-01T20:39:03Z

It turns out that he imagines the world may be “overrun by corruption, ignorance and perfidy.” Boardwalk Empire Watch: Get Me a Wet Towel 2012-10-15T12:00:44Z

As a consequence, the system legislates for malpractice, if not outright corruption, by police and prosecutors who believe they are merely doing whatever it takes to deliver justice. Clive Stafford Smith: 'The jury system in this country is utter insanity' 2012-07-08T19:00:02Z

Zelenskiy spent a huge portion of his campaign lambasting traditional politicians for alleged corruption, the topic of the viral video that put his TV character in office. New Ukrainian leader’s campaign had pages from sitcom script 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Warren was inspired by the demagogic Louisiana governor Huey Long, but Stark’s populist methods and the corruption of his confederates don’t seem utterly remote from our own day. Review | Fans of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy will want to read these historical novels next 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z

This idea, too, goes back to the Founders – not that they sought businessmen, but they did seek men of property and of standing, because of the fear of corruption. Trump, Fiorina and why the “CEO president” rarely succeeds: “Politics is not just something one can pick up” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

The corruption of innocent flesh — by hickeys and herpes and worse — might be a heavy-handed metaphor, but when it’s rendered this gorgeously, who can complain? Review: ‘Kill Me Please,’ a Summer of Murder and Teenage Kicks 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t help that the story, which involves an undercover investigation into gunrunning and the strong possibility of police corruption, recalls the far superior BBC series “Line of Duty.” Review: ‘Black Work,’ a Mystery and Drama with Sheridan Smith 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

This was the biggest congressional corruption scandal ever, at least at the time. Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z

But I'm afraid he's also preaching an inescapable historical gospel on how the vanity and corruption of powerful empires lead them to learn the same painful lessons, over and over again. "Centurion": Trapped in the Roman Empire's Vietnam 2010-08-26T01:30:00Z

“It often took a right-wing, populist approach to exposing corruption.” Robert Whiteman?s Quest to Save Liberty Magazine 2010-04-16T22:50:00Z

Freitas promised his mod squad a free hand in going after city corruption. David Talbot on “Tavis Smiley” 2012-05-21T19:31:00Z

Similarly, witnessing occasional low-level corruption that is one part of Russian reality prompted many questions and a sort of world-weary maturity as they saw their parents being morally tested. Even the boys wore woolly tights 2012-11-17T00:05:17Z

In Serbia, connections count for everything - a hangover from socialist Yugoslavia and the rule of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, whose regime rewarded corruption and favored party apparatchiks over professionals. The minister, his mentor and the fight against a suspect system in Serbia 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

I love The Wire, but do not love gangs or police corruption. Downton Abbey, I Am Too American to Love You 2013-01-04T18:45:35Z

Statistical analysis of the winners and losers over the years yields strong evidence of systemic corruption and the fixing of fights. | 'Freakonomics': A Best Seller as 4 Films Tied Together With Talk 2010-09-30T22:59:00Z

Tessa is wealthy, unfaithful to her husband, and the gradual realization of the depths of the drug company's corruption parallels her own deepening sense of justice, purpose and service. 5 unsung whistleblowers on screen 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Along the way he meets Bagado, a smart and able policeman, whose skills aren't valued in a country where corruption is the currency of officialdom. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

Over seven seasons, the juicy drama “Scandal” shifted from a scandal-of-the-week format to a dark examination at the widespread corruption that underlies the government. Don Draper, Eleven, Selina Meyer lead AP roles of the decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

MANILA, Philippines — Six years and 52 million YouTube hits later, Filipino inmates who danced to "Thriller" inside a prison courtyard are getting their stories told in a movie drama about redemption and corruption behind bars. Philippines' dancing inmates inspire prison film 2013-04-03T12:16:04Z

With each episode, Sud and her writers demonstrate a sharpened skill for pace and revelation, along with gracefully subtle ruminations on corruption, racial profiling and — more profoundly — the very nature of morality. Review | It’s hard to stop watching ‘Seven Seconds’ — and that’s still the surest sign of a good TV show 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

But it was just carelessness — when they brought her in for questioning, it became clear that the commodities corruption was so widespread that she just took it for granted. ‘The Americans’ Season 5, Episode 11: You’re a Monster 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

Government conspiracy and Islamic terrorism are treacherous topics in a country where corruption is widespread and Hindu-Muslim tensions acute. Indian Soap Operas, Ruled by Mothers-in-Law 2012-12-25T22:38:41Z

Revelations of widespread illegal behavior at the top-selling Sunday publication rocked Britain's establishment with evidence of media misdeeds, police corruption and too-cozy links between the press and politicians. At inquiry, Rupert Murdoch defends 50 year record 2012-04-25T13:22:06Z

MPs expenses, police corruption and cheque-book journalism also figure in the play, tickets for which only went on sale last week. Warm reception for hacking play 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

She also criticizes him for a litany of faults, from wantonly tolerating government corruption to unnecessarily micromanaging government decisions. Books of The Times: ‘The Wrong Enemy,’ by Carlotta Gall 2014-04-09T20:24:47Z

In their filing on Monday, they cited other instances of violence against tourists in Cancun, citied drug violence in the region and called the Quintana Roo state "a cesspool of political corruption." Producer charged with killing wife fights case 2011-06-14T00:38:09Z

Believing herself the Everyman destined to correct the corruption of the elites, she intends to sneak into Cleveland and share her poetry. Review: Poets Vie for the Golden Ticket in ‘Really Really Gorgeous’ 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

But even if he is corrupt, how far does the corruption reach? ‘Arbitrage’ and the Rich and Troubled Bad Guy 2012-09-02T07:27:26Z

Previous subjects have included the Clintons’ alleged corruption, Washington corruption, Occupy Wall Street’s corruption, Sarah Palin and Democrats disillusioned by Barack Obama. 'How to stop an out-of-control president': the Trump films that may swing the midterms 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

In his latest novel Christopher Buckley takes his mordant wit from inside the Beltway to the Holy Roman Empire of 1517, where hypocrisy, mendacity, corruption and greed are just as rampant. Six New Books, Including One by Christopher Buckley 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Dudamel believes many of the problems in Venezuela are due to a lack of discipline, political corruption and the need for vision. Gustavo Dudamel speaks out about Venezuela 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Things, however, quickly grow murky once another more convoluted puzzle of corruption, greed and betrayal is added to the mix. What to watch on Netflix in January, from a "That '70s Show" spinoff to a nonlinear heist drama 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z

In Iraq, widespread youth protests continue calling for reform of the electoral system and an end to corruption. Revisiting the Arab Spring, in Letters to the Editor 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

I remember an Indian journalist friend once going on a rant about how corruption was the only antidote to terrorism. Salman Rushdie on Corruption and the Opioid Crisis 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

The system is neatly organized to enable corruption and structured to prioritize the dominant over the downtrodden. Seeing ourselves in “Orange Is the New Black” 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

But there's this confluence between a real-life event and the insane oligarchy and corruption that was existing in Hollywood. Why the bleak film classic "Chinatown" is our new reality 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

“Drugs, corruption — it’s happening all around us,” Mr. Mendoza said recently at his studio in Mandaluyong, a city that is part of metropolitan Manila. Filipino Filmmakers Shed Light on the Forgotten. They Hope It Can Last. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

A better conclusion might have been "State provision is burdened by inefficiency, but reliance on the private sector is liable to be tarnished by corruption and inevitably leads to the exploitation of the poor." Shakespeare's best 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

The unsolved killings in “Red Riding” and the portrait of Northern masculinity, brutality and corruption suggest a terrible sins-of-the-father burden borne by a beleaguered society. 2010-01-30T16:59:00Z

Based on the Book of Job, Leviathan tells the story of a man battling endemic corruption across the church and state and modern-day Russia. Cannes 2014: Winter Sleep takes Palme d'Or in ceremony of upsets 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

It is an extreme example of what is happening all over Russia, where historic cities are almost defenceless against development, corruption and obliging local governments. City of wood 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

They had a sense of play and ambition that tested the elasticity of a series that blended stories of government corruption with the paranormal. Rewatching the X-Files: my 50-episode binge 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

His novels are made up of cops, lawyers, crooks and bureaucrats, outdoing one another in corruption, hypocrisy and folly, in the Boston area. David Mamet on His Inspirations for ‘The Anarchist’ 2012-11-18T04:30:01Z

But with its second run, it became something much bigger, a breathtakingly sleek meditation on cruelty, corruption and how not to dispose of your super-duper top-secret business documents. The 50 best TV shows of 2019: No 1 – Succession 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

They said in unison: “We the people demand a democracy free from the corruption influence of big money and voter suppression. We demand a democracy where every vote is counted and every voice is heard.” Rosario Dawson arrested during pro-democracy sit-in at US Capitol 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Jiang's picture, a huge hit in China, has also received attention for its subtle criticism of Chinese corruption. 'Bullets,' 'Confessions' top Asia film nominations 2011-01-20T12:46:05Z

Though Abramoff served 3 1/2 years in federal custody for fraud, corruption and conspiracy, Spacey says "the most surprising thing to me was how charming and very funny he was and is." Spacey's star impressions highlight "Casino Jack" 2010-12-16T19:16:04Z

It’s hard to tell what the current government, elected on a promise to repudiate the corruption of the old regime, may mean for Passikudah. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The jovial “Bulla fulminante,” for example, wittily addresses the topic of papal corruption. Music in Review 2011-01-24T23:22:42Z

She: Zoe is an ex-New York cop, fed up with the corruption of the police force and now a successful private eye, not at all happy at being protected. A Roundup of the Season’s Romance Novels 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

“And how to be true to oneself, resist corruption.” Recounting a Life of Disobedience 2010-05-21T11:30:00Z

“The surrealistically easy money they dispense, Neuman stresses, is actually a ‘resource curse’ that all too often encouraged government profligacy, business corruption and civic complacency in the 20th century. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

A family drama and an ethical thriller, Mr. Mungiu’s film is an indictment of the everyday corruption that festers not only in Romania, but everywhere selfishness has become the supreme social value. The Best Movies of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

It is a tale of corruption, murder and madness that exposes the dark side of human nature, prompting the poet T.S. Murder by candlelight at London's new Jacobean theatre 2014-01-14T18:43:00Z

With Ray and Frank dead, and Ani forced to abscond to Venezuela, the corruption investigation is again buried. True Detective: season two, episode eight recap – Omega Station 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

The other components are known knowns, which by definition are at least familiar: filth, political corruption, increasing population density and mobility. Review: ‘Pandemic’ Explains How to Host the Perfect Pathogen Party 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Yet I always tried to distinguish between the individuals and the faith, between institutional corruption and spiritual value. I quit the Catholic church: I’m not giving up my faith, but I’m losing my religion 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

But this month, a gritty movie about police corruption in Rio de Janeiro's shanty towns overtook Dona Flor's total and seems set to soon pass the 11 million mark. Gritty police film a hit in Brazil 2010-12-14T09:19:34Z

Additionally, because the criteria are set after data becomes available, there may be opportunity for CMS decision-makers to select criteria in such a way as to reward favored plans, creating opportunities for corruption. Medicare Advantage Reform: Detaching Pay from Performance 2012-05-17T20:09:18Z

The most visible sign of the corruption afflicting Baghdad is the state of the pavements. Baghdad, Iraq: 10 years after Saddam 2013-03-17T00:05:30Z

To that end, “American Dharma” is a tragic portrait of ideological corruption coming to terms with itself. “American Dharma” review: Errol Morris’ Steve Bannon doc is the most disturbing movie of th... 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Most of “The Taste of Money” takes place in the austere, palatial home of a family whose wealth, influence and corruption approach Borgiaesque dimensions. Movie Review: ‘The Taste of Money,’ Directed by Im Sang-soo 2013-01-25T01:23:02Z

His erotic playroom, by contrast, is both orderly and overstuffed, a hidden Old World of decadent refinement, as if resonating with the menace and the thrill of absolute power and absolute corruption. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Omega experienced a sharp drop in sales in 2015, which it linked to China’s economic slowdown and the government’s continuing crackdown on corruption and high-priced gifts. At Omega, a New Factory for Orders from China 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

That show told the story of a history teacher who was catapulted into national fame after a video of him ranting about political corruption shot by a student went viral. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z

It’s a contemporary if shopworn story of good and evil, decency versus corruption and one man fighting the machine when topsy-turvy and not. Movie Review: ‘Headshot,” Directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang 2012-09-27T21:57:00Z

In their depiction of the travails of the regular guy, Capra's films don't just inveigh against the corruption of the world, they celebrate a positive idea of how that world might be. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z

But did the level of corruption that Abramoff represented become the new normal, in a sense? Jack Abramoff, Eliot Spitzer: A tale of two swindlers 2010-05-06T16:01:00Z

In 1884, voters disgusted with Gilded Age corruption made him president. The first celebrity first lady: Frances Cleveland

Paek’s characters acknowledge the scarcity of electricity, corruption among government officials and a societal need for “becoming intellectualized in scientific technology and the arts.” A Novel From North Korea Offers Glimpses of the Everyday 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Beck's page included the message "YouCantCornerTheDorner" and an image of a woman protesting police corruption. Celeb credit files frozen after data posted online 2013-03-13T15:45:08Z

One day they discover a leather bag whose contents will bring them into conflict with the brutal local police force as they find themselves unlikely whistleblowers in a city rife with corruption. Stephen Daldry and Richard Curtis pick up Trash 2011-04-06T10:19:36Z

In November 1974 he returned to Ghana to work as a civil servant, but faced with "a debilitating combination of stultifying corruption and bureaucratic inefficiency" he resigned. Interventions: : A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan – review 2012-11-15T08:00:04Z

It takes on some big themes: democracy, decentralisation, corruption, inequality, the failings of the educational system, and radical Islam, as well as the ghosts of hundreds of thousands slaughtered as Suharto took power in 1965. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Zelenskiy said he wanted to change Ukraine’s global image so that people did not associate the country with corruption. Who needs an Oscar? I'm popular in U.S. now, jokes Ukrainian leader 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

The real scandal dates back to 1978 and an F.B.I. investigation into political corruption that found agents posing as wealthy sheikhs anxious to buy off public officials. Movie Review: ‘American Hustle,’ With Christian Bale and Amy Adams 2013-12-12T20:37:43Z

“The Whistler” refers to a whistle-blower who secretly calls attention to corruption. Review: In John Grisham’s ‘The Whistler,’ a Serious Woman and Serious Crime 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

This decades-spanning fable of power and corruption turns out to be something much less clear-cut than the familiar David-and-Goliath tale of a sociopathic corporation and the lives it steamrolls. The 10 Best Books of 2021 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

As Sen. Falstaff, whose plot to woo and fleece the Windsor wives gets foiled, OSF veteran David Kelly oozes homophobia and corruption while raking in the guffaws. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z

About 12 hours after being released from custody, Avenatti returned to his combative form Tuesday and went on the offensive, accusing Nike of “rampant” corruption. Avenatti charged with fraud as he testified in related case 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

In either case, they might equally have cited their father's analysis of the corruptions of Labour values. David and Ed Miliband on sibling rivalry 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

It long belonged to descendants of the politician Abraham Oakey Hall, who served as mayor of New York from 1869 to 1872 before leaving politics under a cloud of Tammany Hall corruption accusations. Need a Reason to See the Winter Antiques Show? Here, Feast Your Eyes 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

One held a small shrine to Friedrich Nietzsche, while others took on questions about nuclear disaster, corruption and inequality. Art: Art Reaches New Heights in Alps 2014-01-31T17:50:24Z

The show's tone is a curious mix of deeply serious – they don't shy away from the corruption which afflicts so much of Italian life – and occasionally funny. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #15 – Montalbano 2012-08-13T10:31:04Z

Through Costa’s lens, we see Lula charged with corruption, and it’s difficult not to conclude that he, too, has been singled out for political persecution and wrongful treatment. The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

“This is a moment in time that allows us to see this societal corruption. It’s like a scourge on humanity and it’s happening right now.” How ‘Leaving Neverland’ puts Michael Jackson’s cultural legacy and $2 billion empire in jeopardy 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The politics here in Chicago are weighted down by corruption and hardball politics, and we don’t always focus on what’s really important. ‘City So Real’ Makes Chicago the Lead in a National Drama 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

While we participated in a corrupt system, we didn't cause the corruption. Motherlode Blog: An Adoptive Parent Won't Take the Blame 2012-12-10T17:36:50Z

Several episodes later, when the lead cop on the case talks about feeling helpless in the face of accusations of corruption, it hits you that his complaint is the same as Bailey’s. The Case of the Artist and the True-Crime Documentary 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

The official corruption in Nigeria astounds our unnamed narrator. Books of The Times: ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ by Teju Cole 2014-03-25T20:21:54Z

“With one keen glance, we’ve perceived the whole/Perverseness and corruption of his soul,” Esparza recites, no longer as Tartuffe but as himself. Review: When ‘Tartuffe’ Meets Trump, It’s Revolutionary 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

The two of them join forces — Holly helps, too — in a convoluted caper that involves mistaken identity, air pollution, political corruption and a handful of grisly murders. Review: ‘The Nice Guys’ Pairs Gosling and Crowe as Slapstick Detectives 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Don Siegelman, a former governor of Alabama, was charged in a corruption case and repeatedly painted himself as the victim of a government conspiracy, Goldstein said. Hard time looking likely for Blagojevich 2011-12-07T03:48:00Z

Sometimes you had to take on corruption in a deadly serious fight, sometimes you had to laugh at it. Does Shakespeare work better outside Britain? 2012-05-19T11:00:01Z

And continued dysfunction in the courts and corruption among politicians mean that there is no guarantee that justice will ever be served. Television Review: Lawlessness and Need Survive in Shaken Haiti 2011-01-10T22:59:12Z

In Atlantic City, corruption is the normal state of affairs, but when the wheels are properly greased, it stays beneath the surface. "Boardwalk Empire" finale recap 2010-12-06T13:30:00Z

The other extreme, however, leads almost inevitably to corruption and autocracy. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

And all the time, McDonagh's disorders lead him into increasingly sinister compulsions and hallucinations, and the rising floodtide of addiction and corruption threatens to engulf him utterly. Film review: Bad Lieutenant 2010-05-20T20:30:00Z

But the prospect of Oscar winner Rachel Weisz as a troubled Nebraska cop who stumbles onto corruption in Bosnia offered enough incentive to get me into a chair. The Whistleblower: Rachel Weisz Against the Sex Trade 2011-08-04T16:15:00Z

She has been restrained in her criticism of Putin himself, while at the same time calling for more open government, fair elections and an end to the corruption that pervades Russian society. Russian It Girl's path from parties to protests 2012-06-14T16:31:18Z

Their fragile partnership is complicated by the rampant corruption and apathy of Mexican authorities and the violence of powerful borderland drug cartels. 10 summer TV shows worth watching 2013-05-31T22:38:09Z

So Dr. Smile’s defense of corruption is that it is a part of his culture. Salman Rushdie on Corruption and the Opioid Crisis 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Zummo is best known for the macabre tableaux that reveal his fascination with corruption and death: small theatres where lifelike figures lie contorted, dying of plague while bodies decompose around them. Secrecy by Rupert Thomson – review 2013-03-23T15:00:01Z

“Otherwise corruption sets in. You get stuck in certain patterns, and a certain kind of performing language that keeps you from a kind of sense of discovery or danger or mystery.” Willem Dafoe: 'With success comes certain things that corrupt you' 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The result – titled The Mayor's Secretary, and concluding with the mayor's execution for corruption – does not appear entirely fictional. Wang Xiaofang exposes world of Chinese bureaucracy 2011-02-25T19:19:44Z

There’s an air of corruption around the whole operation, of youth being exploited cynically by the old. Fake It When You Make It: The Sad Sex of The Americans 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

I promise these aren’t spoilers, and anyway the so-called plot of “The Nice Guys” isn’t really the point, but both movies are about high-level corruption and damaged parent-child relationship in the upper echelons of power. Abbott & Costello go to “Chinatown”: Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling’s “The Nice Guys” is an irresistible, idiotic ‘70s bromance 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

It also enables a populace to expose corruption. The right’s religion lie: Science, sex and the truth about God and politics 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

As veteran director Krzysztof Zanussi once said about the incompetence and corruption of the state: “Because basic goods were in short supply, people turned to immaterial goods – film, art, religion and human solidarity.” Poland's world-beating new film-makers: 'We have a common enemy' 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

In the film, Biff’s political sway leads to difficult times for the people, turning Hill Valley into a town filled with crime and corruption. Back to the Future writer: bad guy Biff was based on Donald Trump 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

There is no revolt going on among Europe’s Muslims; rather, there is a small, circumscribed class of youngsters who have latched onto an insane corruption of Islam as the most nihilistic game in town. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Swinton won her Oscar for this corporate-shark role in a twisty, clotted legal corruption thriller – one of her more conventional outings, if truth be told. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

There is murder, blackmail, corruption, and worse, all served with a strong shot of black comedy. Auteurs assemble! What caused the superhero backlash? 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

But when it comes to reflecting on the impact of online sex on our offline lives, there needs to be less sniggering and fewer accusations about social corruption. What effect has the internet had on our sex lives? 2011-02-06T00:05:46Z

But this is 1999, when a real-life scandal in the Rampart precinct exposed the corruption and brutality of many policemen against the neighborhood's predominantly Hispanic citizens. Crazy Cops in Toronto: McConaughey and Harrelson Go Splendidly Sicko 2011-09-14T14:25:00Z

President Jonathan reminded funeral attendees of the author's criticisms of politicians and corruption. Chinua Achebe funeral celebrates revered Nigerian author 2013-05-23T17:37:10Z

Juggling court cases, political campaigns, Chicago corruption and corner-office showdowns, “The Good Wife” was also about marital ruin, female desire, frantic parenting and the millennial-boomer divide. ‘The Good Wife’s’ mission accomplished: Alicia has triumphed. 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

It’s a filthier, morally malnourished post-frontier of land disputes, rapacious development, bureaucratic corruption, tribal animosities, endangered resources, working-class poverty, tax-free casinos, drug abuse and anti-federal sentiment. Review | A gruff Kevin Costner has a hard time corralling ‘Yellowstone’s’ wild herd of subplots 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Anatomists held public dissections to expose the telltale traits of moral corruption in the internal organs of criminals and convicts. Review: ‘Anatomy Theater,’ an Opera, Puts Convicts Under the Knife 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

The babalawos recommended santeria devotees wear white, avoid the excessive consumption of alcohol, and pay attention to possible acts of corruption. Cuba's Santeria priests forecast prosperity in New Year's prophesy 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

But his true subject is power and corruption, and the Abramoff affair delivered both. Film: Alex Gibney?s ?Casino Jack and the United States of Money? 2010-04-24T02:39:00Z

The next Spotlight investigation concerned financial corruption in charitable organizations. “Spotlight” and Its Revelations 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

This variation on a long-standing conundrum of the media age — “Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?” a Reagan administration official accused of corruption once asked — surely has dramatic potential. Review | A new play asks: Should the Internet let you erase your past bad acts? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

In The Guardian, Michael Billington described Peake's Hamlet as "caustic, watchful, spry and filled with a moral disgust at the corruption she sees around her". Plaudits for Maxine Peake's Hamlet 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Damian Lewis is a hedge fund titan, and Paul Giamatti is his nemesis, a United States attorney crusading against corruption, in this series, whose creators include Andrew Ross Sorkin of The Times. What’s on TV Thursday: Roman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost Writer’ and Gustavo Dudamel 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But the portrayal of a decrepit Timelord race, all ceremony and corruption, did not square with fans' ideas of the heroic myth. The Deadly Assassin: Doctor Who classic episode #8 2013-06-14T09:00:00Z

That’s particularly true of “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” Shostakovich’s ferocious depiction of Russian society out of joint, with crime and corruption rampant. A Trio of Dangerous Women in a Met Opera Week to Remember 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

The idea also started from my idea about this relationship between compromise as a personal choice and corruption as a social phenomenon. ‘Graduation’s’ Cristian Mungiu on ‘compromise as a personal choice and corruption as a social phenomenon’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

But between the local bureaucracy and the corruption, she said, it was an arduous fight. Adventurous. Alone. Attacked. 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

"The problem for a democracy is how to get rid of the pitiful vanities of partisan talk and voting and the corruption of party machines without silencing opposition criticism," he muses. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z

"Corruption, it's all corruption," she told her children, fluttering her hands like two birds taking flight. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z

And the third is that our efforts to dismantle this scourge on humanity are totally disorganized, a drop in an ocean of corruption and greed. If We Can’t Measure Slavery, Does It Exist? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

A less obvious factor is the crackdown on corruption. As war on corruption mounts, China’s rich flee to America 2014-02-09T22:00:00Z

But it's also an agent of corruption and cynicism that Jacob embraces and Masha approaches with wariness. Jacob's Folly by Rebecca Miller – review 2013-07-25T09:00:00Z

There is one side plot that hints at police corruption and another about a couple Paul is counseling. Television Review: Gillian Anderson in ‘The Fall,’ on Netflix From BBC2 2013-06-10T21:44:49Z

As the story narrows into a cat-and-mouse game played by Robert and Jorgen after an accident, "Terribly Happy" becomes an allegory of human frailty and corruption, of loneliness and the need to belong. 'Terribly Happy': a wickedly entertaining Danish thriller 2010-04-22T21:14:00Z

The unanimous three-judge opinion Wednesday grants the rapper born Robert Williams a new trial because of new evidence of alleged police corruption. Meek Mill’s conviction thrown out, granted new trial 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

But the book shows the single day, the single stroke of fate, that may determine his entire future if the systemic corruption that pervades “The Border” has its way. ‘The Border’ Is a Stunning and Timely Conclusion to Don Winslow’s Drug-War Trilogy 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

Journalists are killed for myriad reasons: for reporting about official corruption or organized crime, or simply for saying something unpopular. Charlie Hebdo killings highlight the increasing targeting of journalists 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

More than just an exposé of widespread corruption or an exercise in cathartic vengeance, “Highway Patrolman” ends with Pedro rejecting a system he can’t beat. ‘Highway Patrolman’ Bends the Thin Blue Line 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

His diaries—quirky, digressive, indiscreet—chronicle his attempts to build cultural relations in a police state filled with fear, corruption and red tape. Love story 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

After we started filming, things went so fast it was a rollercoaster of revelations and corruptions. "Collective" is an urgent exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

She also learns about wife-beating, bullying that led to a teenager’s suicide, and widespread political corruption in her less-than-idyllic home town. A chilling look at crimes against women in ‘A Good Killing’ 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

But why have artists, bloggers and filmmakers suddenly become so obsessed with the corruption of these beloved figure? Why We're So Obsessed With Distorting Disney Princesses 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

All those Depression-era gangsters perceived by the public fighting against big banks and the corruption of government. Bonnie and Clyde's guns, personal items on the auction block 2012-07-15T00:06:04Z

Dancers split into factions, rumors floated of financial corruption and a casting couch — and finally a top-down cleanup. ‘Bolshoi Babylon’: Ballet’s dark side meets Kremlin politics 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

Racist, provincial ideas earn his angry unmasking as he sings, shouts and shakes a fist at corruption and ignorance. The best new poetry books for March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

But they treated the HFPA's longstanding corruption as if they were in on the joke, if they touched upon it at all. "I'm here 'cause I’m Black": For the Golden Globes' TV return, Jerrod Carmichael tells on the HFPA 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

Born in Naples, a city familiar with corruption and organized crime, Mr. Rosi often drew on his own life in his films. Francesco Rosi, Giant of Italian Cinema, Dies at 92 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

It was a decade of extremes: of unprecedented hedonism and artistic freedom, but also of bloat and corruption. Made in Heaven; Cruising, Clubbing, Fucking: An Elegy – review 2012-06-30T23:05:46Z

The images it features contrast starkly with the realities of life in Mexico where corruption and organized crime fuels intense poverty. Rich Kids of Mexico City flaunt wealth on Instagram account 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

Stupidity, corruption and violence are set against the potential freedom of America that Fonda and Hopper represent. Peter Fonda obituary 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

“They stole a few elections/Still we the people won/We voted out corruption and/Big corporations,” she sings on the title track in march-friendly meter over martial drums. Is Ani DiFranco's Which Side Are You On? An OWS Rallying Cry? 2012-01-10T17:10:54Z

We also talked about its identity of a self-made-man kind of city, and its history of corruption and violence. Kelsey Grammer, the Boss of Chicago 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z

To those caught up in the crisis, these years were like an extended Day of the Dead, a time of skulls and candles, corruption with promise of resurrection. ArtsBeat: After a Flap, a Work Draws Attention 2010-12-09T20:09:00Z

“Scandal after scandal, the levels of corruption and lying at the top of the government, and it feels like it’s almost completely unchallenged,” Dowse said. Dry Cleaning: It’s Spoken Rock ’n’ Roll, but We Like It 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z

The rich are worshiped and demonized, and money itself is both the measure of success and the source of corruption. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

The play, which details all the ills of Tunisia under the now defunct regime, with its nepotism and corruption, economic hardships and police surveillance, was ignored by the official media. Amnesia - review 2011-02-15T13:59:01Z

Buscemi stars as a politician maneuvering his way through 1920s corruption, violence and romance. 'Boardwalk' lead role is Buscemi's dream come true 2010-08-08T04:17:00Z

The drama tells the story of a mother who tries to use her social position to save her son from prison and features bleak scenes of bribery and corruption. Lawmaker: Romania Movie Does Not Deserve Oscar 2013-09-25T13:11:58Z

She campaigned to eradicate polio, undermined the Taliban's "gender constraints," indulged in a family feud and faced corruption charges. 'Bhutto': A fascinating documentary about the late Pakistani leader 2011-03-03T21:01:04Z

Wherever you look, it’s almost a journalistic view of the corruption of Roman society. A Monteverdi Master Returns to His Roots With a Rare Trilogy 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

This season trades in the Louisiana bayou and the occult for a fictional California town called Vinci and focuses on corruption in the transportation industry. Here's What to Expect From 'True Detective' Season 2 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Many cite the Chinese ruling party’s corruption as a spur for seeking a freer climate elsewhere and even say that Africa is a lot less corrupt by comparison. Empire of the sums 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Q: The theme of corruption is integral to this film, which is set in contemporary Romania, and “4 Months,” which takes place in 1987. ‘Graduation’s’ Cristian Mungiu on ‘compromise as a personal choice and corruption as a social phenomenon’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

He notes the apparent paradox that Trump — like many fascist politicians — rode to power in part by attacking government “corruption,” yet practices it even more brazenly himself. Is Donald Trump a Fascist? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

And then spiralled in with what happened to him there is violent activism, organised crime, police corruption, illegal immigration, xenophobia, you name it. Giant Otters of the Amazon; Spiral – review 2013-02-10T08:00:06Z

What is certain is that within German intelligence a combination of inefficiency, corruption and, in some instances, willful blindness to the truth, worked to the Allies' advantage. ArtsBeat: The Spy Game: Ben Macintyre Talks About 'Double Cross' 2012-08-01T18:12:24Z

Photograph: 20th Century Fox My favourite TV programme of all time is, easily, Arrested Development, the brilliant show about the fall of a once powerful family, brought down by their own weaknesses, corruption and self-centredness. Riven by factionalism, the Republican party looks hell-bent on self-destruction 2012-08-28T19:08:50Z

He promised to break with decades of corruption and misrule. Pop star reborn as statesman vows renewal in Haiti 2011-04-07T22:22:51Z

“For forty-five years, all my years in Canada, from the day I went out and bought my first sixteen-millimeter camera, I exposed corruption, mendacity, and hypocrisy in government and business,” Leo tells the director. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

It’s an exciting, fast-moving portrait of a formidable hero doing battle with an all-too-believable onslaught of corruption, violence and rampant ignorance that threatens the little home town he loves. ‘The Redeemers,’ by Ace Atkins 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

It is complete anathema to release a film about corruption in Hollywood in Hollywood.” Child abuse documentary Hollywood 'didn't want you to see' goes viral 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

But the people attacking Sarkeesian have been emboldened lately by #GamerGate, an online movement whose participants say they are targeting corruption in gaming journalism. What Is #GamerGate and Why Are Women Being Threatened About Video Games? 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

But Tammy Faye Bakker never really owned up to her part in the corruption behind the "prosperity gospel" she and her husband promoted. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

After the Soviet Union fell apart he went to Moscow, where he published a book about the corruption of the Russian state by big business. How I Taught My Son to Speak Russian 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

She explained that she wasn’t surprised that Ukrainians who had long benefited from corruption had sought to remove her, given that she had made anti-corruption efforts a priority. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The United States has poured $1.5 billion of aid into South Sudan despite widespread concerns over corruption. Clooney, Cheadle urge action to stop pilfering of South Sudan resources 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

The damage is real, wrote Media Matters’ Matthew Gertz: “If journalists incorporate Trump’s debunked allegations into the narrative of Biden’s campaign, it will likely create a false impression of corruption.” Perspective | Trump’s Ukraine-scandal strategy — counterpunch, confuse and con — depends on the media 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Like Baltimore, New Orleans is an urban center with enormous economic disparity, violent crime, municipal corruption, infrastructural decay and racial polarization. Magazine Preview: The HBO Auteur: David Simon 2010-03-17T14:56:00Z

Book bans gain traction in cultures that imagine themselves as upholding a barrier between the purity of children and the corruption of the world. Book bans reflect outdated beliefs about how children read 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z

"I've got a bad taste in my mouth," he says, as the depths of the Secret Service corruption are revealed. Natalie Haynes's guide to TV detectives: #15 – Montalbano 2012-08-13T10:31:04Z

‘I could wish that something of her piety were there to lessen your corruption. Poor vulgar shrew, I weep.’ Review | Escape reality with these delightful old-time thrillers. You’ll forget 2020 is almost here. 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

“Today, after Ben Ali, there is going to be less corruption,” she said. I.H.T. Special Section: Middle East: A Revolution Sallies Forth on the Tunisian Runway 2011-04-28T05:02:04Z

Chevron lawyer Randy Mastro called the raw footage a "treasure trove" and said it will expose "corruption and fraud and a travesty of justice going on right now in Ecuador." Maker of film 'Crude' ordered to turn over footage 2010-05-06T23:46:00Z

The hands-off policy puts Bloomberg News in the awkward position of passing on such critical stories as Trump’s unfounded allegations of corruption against former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Bloomberg News will avoid investigating Mike Bloomberg during his presidential campaign 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

“One, we believe in upholding American values; they are to be respected. And two, we believe in strong countries and strong neighbors. We are deeply opposed to the corruption in international bodies and organizations.” Bannon molded Breitbart into a far-right sledgehammer. How it will be wielded in the Trump era? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Here it is placed at the forefront of American life, as the exemplary, endemic, and ubiquitous mode of corruption. Highlights from the New York Film Festival: Martin Scorsese’s Colossal, Mournful “The Irishman” 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Ancillary to their investigation of these murders, there was all kinds of fraud and corruption going on in the Suffolk County Police Department. Deborah Norville on the Gilgo Beach murders and what happens next 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z

Former financier Bill Browder recounts his experiences in Russia under Putin after making light of the corruption in Russia. Washington Post bestsellers: August 13, 2017 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Benedict also hints that the burden of dealing with corruption in the Vatican was a cause. Reading the Signs When a Couple of Papal Pals Get to Talking 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Wearing a colossal blond wig, she sings a little but mostly talks politics: the plight of the American poor, corporate corruption, environmental degradation, failed leaders. Charles Atlas: ‘The Waning of Justice’ 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

In the 1980s, a lot of vampire films and books tackled disease and corruption – it was a way of talking about Aids. University conference sinks its teeth into vampire fiction 2010-04-05T23:05:00Z

The ambassador, Lutsenko alleged, was “interfering in his ability to prosecute corruption cases” and had even given him a list of defendants that he would not be allowed to prosecute, Solomon wrote. How a conservative columnist helped push a flawed Ukraine narrative 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

The philosopher George Santayana’s novel “The Last Puritan,” published in 1935, portrayed this coddling and deforming as a plutocratic corruption of the original Puritan, communal covenants of Harvard and Yale. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Beyond the drugs and gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson was a fierce opponent of corruption and the authoritarian tendencies of political leaders. New & Noteworthy 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Creators of television shows often use the convenient moral corruption of the worlds they’ve built to absolve themselves of responsibility for what they’re portraying. The “Outlander” torture chamber: A shockingly brutal rape transforms a hero into a victim, but at what cost? 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

We have corruption that’s stunning in its wealth and breath from the high offices of Congress down to the local dog catcher. MC5’s Wayne Kramer on why Trump is “very much so like Richard Nixon” 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Despite the story's globe-trotting nature, the mystery ultimately digs into the secrets that come with family and corruption. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

This included Opa-locka, a town marred by gang violence and political corruption whose residents she interviewed. How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

You inspire us to speak the truth, even when we are shouted down by the forces of corruption. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Dwelling as it does on booze, drugs, corruption, violence and murder, it offers a decidedly bleak picture of one of the world’s largest metropolises. ‘The Interior Circuit,’ by Francisco Goldman 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

What followed was the uncovering of a century of corruption, power and cover-ups around the family. What's new on Netflix in February, from a Reese Witherspoon rom-com to a doggy true crime docuseries 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

His “Elite Squad” movies, Brazilian blockbusters that starred Mr. Moura as an ethically erratic police commander, offered an entertaining but cynical — and controversial — look at corruption. Netflix Looks to ‘Narcos’ for a New Audience 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Like a negative image of Entourage where nothing has gone right instead of everything, the boys drift on the edge of the music scene, bumping into pomposity and corruption whenever they go in. Tragic, funny and weird: Donald Glover's Atlanta is a new high for TV comedy 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Breaking the story of Cook-Hawkins, “Fahrenheit 11/9” suggests that the layers of corruption and greed and the complete disregard for the welfare of Flint residents went well beyond the governor’s office. Lessons from Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Establishment Democrats sold out the voters 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

On previous installments, he has explained the importance of net netutrality and the corruption of the International Olympic Committee.  John Oliver will remain on HBO through 2017 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

He learned how to use the media to voice concerns about corruption, hit back at tycoons who tried to bully him, and to promote Russia as a vastly under-valued market. Red sky in the morning 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

At some level – not far below the surface – these films were consciously addressing issues that were on ordinary people's minds: war, corruption, drugs, America's "loss of innocence". Invasion of the dumbasses 2011-08-11T20:32:01Z

Serpico is easily in the top five films of this genre, placing Al Pacino in the role of Frank Serpico, another whistleblower who uncovers rampant corruption within the New York police department. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s surprisingly difficult to tell which corruption is happening in New Jersey and which is happening in New York — just ask Jon Stewart. Name that scandal! Jon Stewart shows that in the corruption contest between NY and NJ, everybody loses 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Lucas tells a gripping story of organised crime, big business, corruption and, of course, espionage. Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West by Edward Lucas – review 2013-02-15T17:41:01Z

The anti-corruption principles prohibit bribery, corruption, facilitation payments and hospitality gifts, and require members to engage in “only ethical business conduct” among other things. Why the travel industry’s ethics matter 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Current whereabouts unknown Here's how corruption kills children. Spiral III: The Butcher of La Villette - episodes one and two 2011-04-02T21:50:00Z

Nast was the scourge of “Boss” Tweed and his post-Civil War corruption scandal around Tammany Hall, the New York Democratic political machine. A Klansman with a megaphone: Steven Hull's sordid art laments troubled times 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

An organization called Information, which oversees everything, is overloaded with personal data and ripe for corruption. Best science fiction and fantasy of 2016 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

The first offerings run to the highly polemical, repeatedly hitting themes like the bankruptcy of liberalism, the corruption of warmongering foreign policy elites and the need for a moral framework to politics. Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

Between the scams, the corruption and the ubiquity of guns, he was blown away by what he found. Director Ramin Bahrani on His Housing Drama 99 Homes: It's a 'Thriller With a Humanist Heart' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Jurors convicted him over two trials on 18 corruption counts, including charges he tried to sell or trade the U.S. Blagojevich to speak before heading to prison 2012-03-08T13:22:00Z

“It was a very chaotic time in New York. I saw a lot of death, a lot of police corruption, a lot of gun violence. It was a very hectic environment.” Feel Like You’re in Prison? These Trainers Actually Were 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

For much of the rest of Lebanon, Tripoli’s artistic history is considered a relic of the past, overshadowed by crushing poverty, corruption, and migration. Closed for decades, theater returns to Lebanon’s Tripoli 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

So there’s a lot of similarities, political corruption, factions. Halloween horror translated for ballet: How 'Inferno' will turn Dante into dance 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Many of the victims were innocent civilians, including journalists and law-abiding officials who've been rendered helpless against rampant corruption at every level of police, military and political power. 'Murder Capital of the World': Sobering take on Mexico's drug war 2012-04-26T20:10:10Z

“It’s a film about women, about women learning who they are and becoming independent. It’s about empowerment, it’s a film about corruption and racism and violence, and it’s a heist film,” Debicki said. Female-led 'Widows' reinvents the heist film 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

That, combined with a fragmented public health system severely strained by funding cutbacks, corruption and a trend toward decentralization has diminished the capacity for STI treatment and prevention, according to Corrêa. Brazil should address Zika virus like an STD outbreak, researchers say 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

There are amusing sideswipes at the corruption and inanity of 21st-century TV, and a gleefully unsporting riff on drugs in athletics. Frankie Boyle 2010-04-20T22:00:00Z

“No, I think they’re looking to stop the corruption, not the ‘corruption,’” Stewart fires back, forming sarcastic air quotes around the word corruption. Jon Stewart smacks down Megyn Kelly for hypocrisy over GOP corruption 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

For someone such as Liss, who specializes in novels that mix low-life crime and high-level corruption, 1750s Lisbon, with its poverty, injustice and religious intolerance, is a gruesome treasure trove. Book review: ‘The Day of Atonement’ by David Liss

The biggest achievement of the revolution was to end the Gaddafi regime and put a stop to his family's corruption. One year after revolt, Libyans feel insecure 2012-02-17T11:12:00Z

She was charged with corruption of young people and disrespect for the Islamic Republic, according to the Guardian. Instagram star 'zombie' Angelina Jolie sentenced to decade in prison 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

“It’s not rocket science, it’s corruption,” said Lovell. 'A failure of our system': inside a damning take on the Great Recession 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

“The novel’s political intrigue and corruption, and the sadness that accompanies the sense of helplessness in the face of a great evil, is prescient.” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Rubenfeld’s novel bustles with kidnapping, knife throwing, gun fighting, poisoning, bank robbery, corruption. Books of The Times: Brimming With Clues That Are Hard to Link 2011-02-03T00:08:48Z

The growth of China’s economy has slowed, fake pieces have proliferated and the government’s crackdown on corruption has put a lid on the culture of luxury gift-giving, which encouraged frothy prices. A Shift in Focus for Asian Art Sales 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

The Fernández collection is meant to capture Cuba’s extremes of glamour, seediness and corruption before Castro. Antiques: Looking Back at Cuba and the Lower East Side 2014-04-17T20:23:16Z

The novels offer a strikingly intelligent, gripping, angry look at political and corporate corruption in Sweden and, by implication, throughout the Western world. ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ review: Lisbeth Salander hacks on 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Past seasons jumped into issues such as racial profiling, homophobia and corruption as fearlessly as a kindly comedy could while still fulfilling its obligation to make us laugh. A fond farewell to the "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" hero cops, who are ending this ride along just on time 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

Rather the novel presents Tarzan as Rousseau’s unspoiled child of nature, a literally noble savage free from the vices and corruption associated with advanced industrial society. Review | A look back at how Tarzan swung into immortality 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

This case went so cold for so long and it was mired in corruption and incompetence for so long. Deborah Norville on the Gilgo Beach murders and what happens next 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z

Her uncovering of institutional corruption in the prison was largely relegated to a B-plot last season, while the turf war between Red and Vee took prominence. Orange Is the New Black: season three refresher course 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

But in “1876,” the theme is corruption, the kind facilitated by the Senate cloakroom’s informality: “the practical tribune of the people prefers making himself easily accessible to those who want to give him money.” Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

Can one be nostalgic for the golden age of corruption? Amexica: on the frontline of the Mexican drugs trade 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Instead, they were looking at Romania’s health care system, and what they revealed was decades of deep-rooted corruption, a heavily politicized system scarily lacking in care. Oscar-nominated Romanian film reveals health care failings 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

“Around 40 percent of economic cases and nearly 80 percent of corruption and embezzlement cases involve naked officials.” As war on corruption mounts, China’s rich flee to America 2014-02-09T22:00:00Z

Their yearning for social and economic mobility is poignant, but also leads at times to cruelty, corruption and apathy. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

With “The Mechanism,” director Jose Padilha, best known for “Narcos” and “Elite Squad”, hopes to remind viewers that corruption in his native Brazil is not the fault of any particular politician or party. Narcos producer shows 'mechanism' of Brazil corruption in new series 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

He added that poor planning and corruption have benefited companies widely seen as Orban’s clientele, saying, “Not only present, but also future generations will pay the costs of another Orban pet project.” A Music Museum Opens in the Heart of Hungary’s Culture Wars 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

Berlin-based theater company Schaubühne was to kick off two performances of “An Enemy of the People”, which deals with issues including corruption and manipulation of the masses, in Nanjing in Jiangsu province starting Thursday. Tour of Ibsen play cut short in China amid cries for freedom 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Cash: “When you grow up with ugliness and corruption, you surrender to beauty whenever and wherever you find it.” A Beautiful Mind 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

For years, the area was defined by crumbling 100-year-old buildings, desolation, government corruption and poverty. Greetings (and Shopping) From Asbury Park, N.J. 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

Amorality on that scale may be overblown, but the essence of corruption on “Empire” rings true, he said: “Maybe 90 percent of people in the music business are awful.” SXSW Music 2015: An 'Empire' Writer Tries to Make His Way in the Real-World Music Business 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

These pieces will commemorate the comedian as a secular prophet who used humor to expose the perpetual corruptions of our civic institutions. Jon Stewart became our opiate: Time to confront Tea Party, 1 percent — without punchlines 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

She traced her own career rise, and praised journalists for unearthing stories of corruption and abuse. The Best and Worst of the Golden Globes 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

Resistance also rose because of corruption and economic policies that increased poverty. Democracies don’t bounce back post-dictatorship. "Argentina, 1985" shows how justice looks afterward 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

“We wanted to talk about the why of it: How does a system of policing both allow and encourage corruption?” ‘We Own This City’ Brings George Pelecanos Back to Baltimore 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

He knows now that The Master will bring about "a scourge," and a widespread "corruption of flesh and spirit." 'The Strain' recap: Setrakian and strigoi origins in 'The Runaways' 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Bribes and corruption would keep anyone from being brought to justice.” Books of The Times: Edwidge Danticat’s Novel ‘Claire of the Sea Light’ 2013-09-05T20:49:44Z

The mid to late nineteen-eighties were a dark time in Mexico City. A devastating earthquake in 1985 killed ten thousand people in the city and exposed deep government corruption. A Visit with the Artist Damian Ortega 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

He also would take over a country with a long history of political turmoil, corruption and poverty. Wyclef Jean says his Haiti candidacy a 'wild card' 2010-08-19T02:34:00Z

Unruly as his rhetorical strategies are, Ventura is ultimately quite convincing about the ineffectuality of the War on Drugs, and on the contradictions and corruptions of the Drug Enforcement Administration, a particular bugbear of his. Marijuana won big on election night: Four books to help process our new reality 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

He sang serious thoughts about poverty, corruption, mortality, faith and Tanzanian pride, and he called his music “ubongo beat” — “ubongo” is Swahili for “brain.” Remmy Ongala, Tanzanian Musical Star, Dies at 63 2011-01-17T04:17:29Z

We believe in systematic power and corruption that leads to this level of carnage. In solving his own son's murder, "The Pharmacist" also took on the opioid epidemic 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

“The Sporting Club” is a tale of decline and corruption at a Michigan resort; it is a social novel rather than a personal one. Thomas McGuane, winner of the upcoming Kirsch Award, on his path as a writer 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

A flamboyant businessman who was beloved by sports fans for leading French soccer club Marseille to glory but also dogged by legal battles and corruption investigations. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

There is no sense that the bird might rouse itself and fly away, or that the pixels might heal themselves and reassemble into the image they were before their corruption. In the galleries: A photographer’s accident yielded artistic results 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

I remember me and you, we've had so many conversations about corruption, about policing and what it looks like. HBO's "The Slow Hustle" director: "We're all carrying some level of mass grief as Black people" 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

The destruction, the corruption, the inflation of the New York bagel—its hole reduced to a mere pinprick, its taste made indistinguishable from a food-cart soft pretzel—is by now an established fact. Cynthia Nixon’s Cinnamon-Raisin Bagel and the Faux Food Faux Pas 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

It’s an in-depth—and also very cute—exploration of sexism, corruption, taboo, and the importance of art and humor as a force of love and acceptance. Be grateful for what was good: One dozen musicians share the art they loved the most in 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

He’s not just some guy in a uniform doing a job, and he is free of the corruption and compromise that bedevil the legally constituted authorities. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Other films have stuck closer to the tried-and-true tropes, plugging the recurring noir themes of corruption and deception into a more offbeat milieu. Trouble in paradise: The Beach Bum and a history of Florida noir 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

The concert series, held under the slogan “Education First,” aims to highlight Iraq’s decaying education system, which has suffered under years of conflict, government negligence and corruption. Iconic musician seeks to rebuild Iraq through music 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z

He said he was angry at Filin for what he described as corruption and favoritism at the theater. Bolshoi director: Acid attack dancer may keep job 2013-03-12T15:49:08Z

Shot on location around Los Angeles, the series examines issues of identity, corruption and truth, as focused through a noir lens appropriate to its themes. ‘I Am the Night’: Patty Jenkins and Chris Pine Explore the Black Dahlia Mystery 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

It was the time of the Arab Spring, which began in countries such as Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya as protests, initially peaceful, against corruption and oligarchy. Sebastian Junger’s New Documentary About Syria 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

In a country where a lawmaker has just used temporary presidential powers while his boss was away to pardon himself and 13 other MPs of corruption charges, this story has resonance. Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo, where paradise is a leaky canoe without a paddle 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

In your book, you describe the corruption, greed and gross mismanagement you saw while at the NRA. ‘The NRA has blood on its hands,’ says ‘Inside the NRA’ author and former strategist 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

As important, the factory also functions as a metaphor for the region’s history of economic catastrophe, and its mob and political corruption. A Mobster’s Tale in ‘Salvo,’ With Saleh Bakri 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

The NFL might be a terrifying juggernaut of shady business management, union disparagement, outright corruption and nearly infinite rivers of cash. I love-hate football! 2014-02-02T16:30:00Z

The architectural imperfections of medieval architecture have nothing to do with intentional corruptions to their design. Washington National Cathedral goes under the microscope

The Borgias represent a low point in the Renaissance church when corruption and greed defined the papacy. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z

The series dove into the corruption within the for-profit prison pipeline in the fourth and fifth seasons. “Orange Is the New Black” and the chilling truths of deportation and incarceration 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

But “Every Day” is filled with instances of casual corruption, passport issuers and toll collectors who expect small bribes in exchange for doing their jobs. Teju Cole’s ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’ Comes to the U.S. 2014-03-19T21:01:25Z

There were arson attempts on the theatre in 2009, over a production of Animal Farm that took George Orwell's satire of the corruption of socialist ideas and spun it into a critique of Palestinian politics. Juliano Mer-Khamis obituary 2011-04-11T18:02:15Z

In each case, a fool, perhaps even a buffoon, demurs before the corruptions and compromises of life. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z

Communist Party leaders have said that corruption threatens their rule, and the president, Xi Jinping, has begun the deepest anti-corruption campaign in decades and has also recently announced a drive to improve justice. Katie Leung Stars in ‘One Child’ by Guy Hibbert 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

The privilege becomes evident as the book unleashes its vision of interlocking corruptions among the spectacularly decadent elite presiding over Asia’s oldest democracy. Sex Goddess, Celebrity and the Best Hope for Her Country 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

The corruption case resulted in the former Secretary, Albert Fall, going to jail. Downton Abbey Recap: Comings and Goings 2014-02-17T03:15:42Z

But it's equally worthy to grasp the extent of the perverse trickle-down effect corruption has in this world, and for some of us, that takes a pause for discussion and a hard think. When it comes "Better Call Saul," we should be in no hurry for it to end 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

And that understanding—even though it’s about depressing corruption—actually feels pleasurable. The Art of the Impeachment Podcast 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Check them out if you like a gripping story of corruption, crime and politics, and a flawed hero whose worst enemy may be himself. Lit life | Norwegian author Jo Nesb? writes another chapter in the history of Nordic noir 2010-03-15T04:01:00Z

It takes on the struggles with identity, race, gender, politics, corruption, greed, and, yes, disgusting surgical procedures, that have been a part of this country since its foundation. The Knick: scalpel-sharp second season cuts away at Mad Men's status 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Each of the writers Mona meets is convinced of the unique importance of his work, yet even the palatable ones seem to suffer from the same underlying corruption. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

In other words, the show questions the security state, reveals the horrific collateral damage of America's drone programme, and pointedly demonstrates how such unaccountable power can lead to corruption. Homeland is not Islamophobic despite what some critics claim 2012-12-24T00:05:34Z

But it didn’t evidently enable him to document the kinds of brutality, corruption and craziness such places often harbor. Danny Lyon’s Camera Seeks Truth in Marginalized Lives 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The charity claims that political corruption in Malaysia is a “major driver” of deforestation, with local politicians handed lucrative logging contracts as bribes. Leonardo DiCaprio urged to repay donations to Malaysian rainforest fund 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z

From the beginning, Line of Duty has always taken a Game of Thrones approach to its main characters: making it clear that nobody is safe in its vicious cat-and-mouse game of corruption. The best TV episodes of 2017, from The Deuce to Line of Duty 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Like the much less good Broken City, it's a cynical tale about the sweet smell of corruption in the city that never sleeps. Arbitrage – review 2013-03-03T00:05:29Z

Season 1's prime adventure is steeped in themes of corruption, xenophobia, conspiracy, and ethnic cleansing. In these darkest of times "Star Trek: Picard" is a humane light from a distant, possible future 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

The following year, he returned to his preoccupation with corruption and the police, directing and co-writing the factually based Prince of the City. Sidney Lumet obituary 2011-04-10T16:59:14Z

Poisonous political corruption dominated the conversation as the year began with tensions surrounding impeachment. Wait, that happened this year? A reminder of the TV events that 2020 erased from our memories 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Machismo, corruption, violence, corporate exploitation, histrionic nationalism and the ravages of imperialism. Astrid Hadad, 'Lady Gaga of Nixtamal,' is part of thrilling start to PST's performance fest 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

“My dad was giving so much of himself and not getting much in return, and up against all this corruption, ” Bush said. Cori Bush marched on the streets in Ferguson. Now she’s about to take her seat in Congress. 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

Fugard, born of English and Afrikaans parents, suggested that playwrights are wary of criticising delicate themes like Muslim extremism or black corruption, adding: "That's part of the problem." Athol Fugard berates dramatists for failing to confront injustice 2010-08-30T14:59:00Z

It talked about the mental corruption of someone by a larger geopolitical industry. How Elvish, comics and rowdy astrophysicists helped Eric Heisserer write 'Arrival's' Oscar-nominated script 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Anonymous Saudi Twitter accounts tell tales of royal corruption. After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies by Christopher M Davidson 2012-12-28T22:55:04Z

Moore had spent most of his career exposing corruption, deception, abuse and exploitation, this film took a completely different angle. “Michael Moore in TrumpLand”: A film whose surprising healing power is needed now more than ever 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

They were livid about corruption, poor public services and billions of dollars of public money being spent on the World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, which are also to be held in Brazil. Ruffato writes Brazil 'as I see it', and it's not pretty 2013-10-16T15:30:54Z

Mambéty’s furious vision links the subjection of women to a corrupt legal system, economic oppression, and overarching, unredressed patriarchal misrule—and depicting the inner corruption and depravity that the system creates. What’s New on Streaming: Three Cinematic Tales of Patriarchal Misrule 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

In the 1990s, several designers were swept up in the so-called Clean Hands investigation into corruption among Italian politicians and business executives. Dolce and Gabbana May Face a Criminal Trial for Tax Evasion. 2011-03-23T19:20:12Z

When the first instalment of an eight-part LA Times article on Vinci’s corruption lands on his desk, his immediate response is to have Ray terrify the reporter into shelving the rest of the piece. True Detective: season two, episode one recap – The Western Book of the Dead 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

“It has a tight libretto, with no fluff. And the whole idea of being powerless, of political corruption, of a teenage girl facing hard choices — it’s something everyone understands.” A Fascist-era ‘Rigoletto’ returning to Seattle Opera 2013-12-31T23:10:37Z

Central to this protest was the role played by social media in urban India where women had long been frustrated by corruption and rising crimes. Women’s fight against sexual harassment didn’t start with #MeToo 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

I wish this weren’t so, because while Walker benefited from immense corruption, he also created the Department of Sanitation, expanded the subway and improved parks and playgrounds — a complexity that seems worth probing. Review: ‘Tammany Hall’ Votes the Party Line 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

"That is what corruption sounds like," the prosecutor said, her voice suddenly rising. Ill. powerbroker convicted in shakedown trial 2011-11-01T17:52:22Z

He embodies all sorts of archetypes: He is the prize winner with a Pulitzer for ferreting out City Hall corruption in Chicago. Dean Baquet, from New Orleans reporter to executive editor of the New York Times

“He obviously takes pride in his work and the corruption he enables; most bartenders are stylish and a little bit evil. Poor Lloyd doesn’t know the difference between bourbon and Tennessee whiskey, though.” Joe Turkel, the Spectral Bartender in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 94 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z

I think we’re seeing the end result of representing very, very corrupt people is that corruption seems to spread out and infect you, but also people try to use you against that. 'Good Wife' creators talk about going behind bars for Season 6 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

And, although Mike Bartlett's Earthquakes in London at the National was a bit unwieldy, it was also a big, expansive epic about climate change and corporate corruption. Year of the great performance 2011-02-07T14:26:28Z

Meanwhile, her political rivals whipped up false charges of corruption – widely regarded now as sheer political calculation – and began calling her “Ju-Liar Gillard”. Why do we love a trainwreck? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

Through corruption and through lack of resources for enforcement, environmental and labor protections that we take for granted in the United States are easily subverted in Mexico. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z

Mr. Attenborough recounts a particularly delicious example from his 1998 series, “The Life of Birds,” one that revealed shocking moral corruption among hedge sparrows. | ‘Attenborough’s Life Stories’: ‘Attenborough’s Life Stories,’ on ‘Nature’ on PBS 2013-01-22T22:01:06Z

He provides an unaltered copy of each photo for comparison, and the differences range from minuscule shifts in color, to the striations of digital corruption, to flat-out dissolution. Julien Bismuth tinkers with the DNA of his images at the Box 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

That still-unsolved mystery becomes a plot point for Nathaniel Rich in his new novel, “King Zeno,” about a jazz player in that city 100 years ago, development, corruption and race. Books: Susan Straight and David L. Ulin take on innovative memoirs and more in books 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

Then again, I grew up in the 1970s in Dundee, exposed to almost mythical layers of corruption and malpractice in public life. What's the future of the Union? 2011-08-27T23:05:40Z

Due to rampant corruption at all government levels, there is nowhere to turn for protection and help. 40 years ago, I fled South America for freedom. I am one of the lucky ones 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

It’s just one of 340 ongoing probes by his office into corruption, fraud and waste. ‘It’s John against the world right now’

The artists' role in the demonstrations "is more important because they have not been discredited, while politicians have been, by their former government jobs, suspected corruption and so on," said political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky. Russia's unlikely protest song rocks rally 2012-02-05T13:38:07Z

In today’s Guatemala, criminal gangs have privatized violence and corruption: Just like the dictators, they’ve left a trail of mutilated corpses and a terrified populace in their wake. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a restaurant story and a corruption story, but mostly it’s one of those cable TV series that tries too hard to be a cable TV series. AMC’s ‘Feed the Beast’ is served with a vintage Schwimmer, but still overcooked 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Jokes fly about corruption, Maduro, and Ortega’s own precipitous fall from power. Laughing in crisis, Venezuelan acts out dissident Ortega's tale 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

There is nothing new about updating Russian operas to the Russia of today, yet the current authoritarian leadership, filthy-rich oligarchs, pervasive corruption and threat of violence accord especially well with “The Tsar’s Bride.” Opera Review: Ivan the Terrible's Bride Under a Modern Moscow Sky 2011-04-26T14:30:04Z

“The Kitchen” also waves away the street-level significance of rampant police corruption—of which the gangs over all, and the three women in particular, are both instigators and beneficiaries. “The Kitchen,” Reviewed: An Engrossing Mob-Wife Drama That’s Relegated to a Table Read 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The sequel does away with the original movie’s pointed commentary on crime and corruption in the Dominican Republic, opting for a more generic revenge-movie approach. ‘La Soga Salvation’ Review: A Very Inferior Set of Thrills 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

Here, portrayed with electrifying duplicity by Mr. Suchet and Ms. Wanamaker, they’re more like the Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth of Middle America – guarded, watchful and consciously poisoned by their own corruption. London Theater Journal: Arthur Miller, Pinteresquely 2010-07-20T17:25:00Z

My nose twitched with the stench of Indira Gandhi's corruption as her gladiator, Shiva, slew Parvati-the-Witch and herded me into the vasectomy camp. Digested classics: the 20th century's greatest novels 2010-10-13T06:59:00Z

One is corruption, one is the circumstances in Los Angeles at that time and how they played into the outcome of this case. Edie Falco As an Attorney Ripped from the Headlines 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

And then it became a thing called Operation G-String, a corruption scandal that encompassed city officials, organized crime and the women earning 20 bucks a dance. Las Vegas was built by gangsters, and we celebrated those stories 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The glamorous favorite of the tyrant has fallen from her high perch, and it is rumored that further depths of corruption are waiting to be plumbed. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Amoral Clarity 2011-07-18T15:23:00Z

As King and Mother frequently remind their daughters, women’s bodies are inherently fragile and vulnerable to corruption. Three Sisters, an Island and an Apocalyptic Tale of Survival 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

But say his desire to avoid making enemies led to overlooking corruption in his administration, helping provoke the 2000 uprising. Documentary looks at life of Palestinian leader Arafat 2011-12-12T12:11:49Z

Early in his career, according to the movie, he indulged in the corruption that was endemic to Russian business and politics. | 'Khodorkovsky': Mikhail Khodorkovsky Documentary - Review 2011-11-29T22:44:05Z

What about film's themes of purity and corruption? "Holy Spider" examines a "serial killer society," in which Iranian sex workers are targeted 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Using this technique hooks into the deep level of emotional betrayal of Weinstein’s corruption. "Untouchable" Harvey Weinstein: Everyone agreeing with Dave Chappelle on #MeToo needs to watch 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

The Mexican corruption and impunity envelop us all.” Mexico’s Literary Prankster Goes to War With His Publisher 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z

As for debt and speculation, corruption and circumlocution, it would not surprise the author of to see that they are with us every day. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 3: Little Dorrit 2012-02-03T18:42:02Z

This has been a great week for him, a good month for African writers — and a terrible year, he says, for his country, blighted by pandemic and corruption. Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa’s gloom 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

The programme recently drew criticism for airing its investigation into alleged corruption at football's governing body, Fifa, just days before the vote to decide the hosts of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Jeremy Vine to step down as Panorama presenter 2010-12-13T00:04:00Z

Kendall's pathetic blindness his own hypocrisy reminds us of one of his tweets that Sophie had highlighted previously: "We must overthrow the culture of corruption that silences women." Succession's Kendall Roy is the perfect #Girlboss caricature 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

Russia is home for a while, but after 1989 it becomes an increasingly treacherous place, a land of poverty, corruption and brutal weather. ‘Flee’ Review: From Kabul to Copenhagen 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

He tracks cases of government torture, corruption and abuse, and insists “the revolution would come someday.” Newly Released Books Include ‘Chronicle of a Last Summer’ 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Yet he faces a grisly punishment if it's discovered on a trading post already rife with corruption and the vicious power struggles of a corporation staggering under debt. 'The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet': David Mitchell's Japan-set historical novel 2010-07-16T22:43:00Z

But the movie strongly implies that their feud was also a macho cockfight that began at a high-level meeting at which he offended Mr. Putin by bringing up corruption in the Kremlin. | 'Khodorkovsky': Mikhail Khodorkovsky Documentary - Review 2011-11-29T22:44:05Z

The moral rot and callous corruption depicted in “Angels Wear White” has a particularly bracing effect in part because, cultural specifics aside, the inhumanity on display is hardly alien. Review: ‘Angels Wear White’ Is a Searing Tale of Moral Rot in China 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

Plutocracy at its most sanctimonious: Louis Auchincloss’ “The Winthrop Covenant,” published in 1976, traced this corruption in intimate, poignant vignettes of old American families across generations. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

But it is a thought-provoking play about memory, its corruption and our insistence that technology help us outwit death. ‘Marjorie Prime,’ a Tender Comedy Starring Lois Smith 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Part thriller and part harrowing account of an outrageous, based-on-facts story of official corruption in the former Yugoslavia, "The Whistleblower" is a tense and shattering drama. 'The Whistleblower': a crusader's look at the world of sexual slavery 2011-08-18T23:22:06Z

Mark, a local boy, wears the cynicism of a someone steeped in the town’s crime and corruption. Movie review of Texas Killing Fields 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z

When he was arrested for corruption in 2001, the city’s capacity to produce staged opera looked vulnerable. China's First Lady of Opera 2010-03-04T16:16:00Z

The African National Congress, the party he led, is often accused of corruption, and a feeling remains, particularly among young South Africans, that Mandela may have been too accommodationist with white leaders. In ‘Mandela: The Lost Tapes,’ a Veteran Journalist Finds Himself 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

When Greenblatt meets with reporters at the Television Critics Association conference in Los Angeles this weekend, he'll be touting "Deception," a soap with glamour, murder and corruption that premieres Monday. NBC's Greenblatt rebuilds network long in disarray 2013-01-04T14:02:13Z

Yet her politically spiked statements underscore many issues that plague children who are growing up under a still-fragile democracy embroiled in corruption and surrounded by violent crime. | Jenny Holzer Takes On South Africa 2010-06-15T19:15:00Z

"Where there is easy money, there is corruption, no doubt," said Adams, who pleaded guilty to the charges. 'Airbender' tax credit shows how far states will go to woo filmmakers 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

They’re classic examples of film noir, French style, and they subtly but surely fling the corruption and the fear of the Occupation back in the faces of French viewers. An Essential Retrospective of the French Filmmaker Jacques Becker at the Newly Renovated Film Forum 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Satire, in contrast, is uniquely suited to cover the Trump team because it is designed to go after BS, faulty logic, abuses of power, larger-than-life personalities, corruption, vanity and outright lying. Why we need serious Trump jokes: From "SNL" to Colbert, comedians make sense out of impeachment 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

“The Poisoned City,” by the journalist Anna Clark, is comparatively drier but a more comprehensive chronicle of the crisis — with an eye for the institutional corruption and indifference that enabled it. Toxic History, Poisoned Water: The Story of Flint 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

As the frontman recalls, the band emerged in the 1970s during a time of global economic turmoil; closer to home, they also witnessed violent conflict in Northern Ireland, as well as religious and political corruption. "The original rage was intact": Bob Geldof on The Boomtown Rats' comeback, even during the pandemic 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

There's a villager driven to violence by official corruption; an amoral killer roaming the land; a factory worker driven to suicide. Iran's Farhadi and China's Jia make Cannes splash 2013-05-17T19:20:16Z

But, mired in crime and corruption, he faces a spectacular fall from grace. In pictures: Oscar best film nominees 2014-01-16T16:35:00Z

In Artaserse, there is a single tenor, cast as the murderous Artabano: the natural, broken voice is synonymous throughout with extreme corruption. Vinci: Artaserse – review 2012-11-14T15:31:00Z

The sickly sweet whiff of Catholic corruption enticed audiences a decade back; this time it's the equally worn groove of the gulf between rich and poor in the country. Has Mexico's film industry been helped or harmed by Hollywood? 2013-05-01T16:38:06Z

Rod Blagojevich be sentenced to 15 to 20 years in prison for his sweeping corruption conviction. Feds: Give Blagojevich 15 to 20 years 2011-11-30T16:09:00Z

He claimed on Twitter that Nike funneled “large sums” of money to elite student-athletes bound for top colleges and said the corruption reached the highest levels at the company. Avenatti charged with fraud as he testified in related case 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

That includes "Veep," a foul-mouthed but beloved adult comedy with an honest if not depressingly bleak outlook on the corruption and insincerity of American politics. How 9/11 helped define this generation’s new brand of patriotism 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z

He is disappointed, disillusioned and sometimes outraged by the evil and idiocy found on the Republican right and the thoroughgoing corruption of the political system. Fox News is half-right about Jon Stewart: How the brilliant satirist of the Bush years has been undone by his BFF in the White House 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Carlton said he was moved by images of a protester in Tunisia who set himself on fire to protest police corruption, setting in motion the uprisings known as the Arab Spring. ArtsBeat: New Song to Benefit Amnesty International 2012-05-02T20:26:17Z

But I sneaked unnoticed into the Everyman Library edition recently and, burrowing deep, loved the rich complexity, the wise and barbed exploration of corruption and the absurd irrationality of the human condition. How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

I mean, there's just so much high-level corruption in Newark. "Judas and the Black Messiah" filmmakers on exposing how the FBI hunted 1960s Black activiststs 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

That was always a deliberately dark show that turned corruption into an unhealthy fetish and stopped being interesting somewhere in its second season. Perspective | Are there ways to solve ‘Transparent’s’ Maura problem? Yes, plenty. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

To those already aware of widespread, systemic police corruption, this made her mysterious death while in custody seem almost too coincidental. Sandra Bland should be alive today 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

For those of us who admire Nabokov’s gifts, talking about “Lolita” can feel like being on a perpetual critical cartwheel of exaltation and apology: celebrating the novel’s artistry while decrying the corruption that artistry captures. Review | Was ‘Lolita’ inspired by a true crime? A new book offers tantalizing evidence it was. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

But O’Sullivan makes only a fleeting appearance, and the possibility that the corruption seeped deeper than two agents, and two brothers, is not raised in the film at all. Black Mass: the glamorization of Whitey Bulger muddles an already murky story 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Poverty, unemployment, inequality, corruption, paramilitaries and the age-old neglect of the countryside remain. Kidnap revisited: how I met my former captor 2011-01-26T08:00:02Z

The show’s antihero, Macheath, is a criminal among a rogue’s gallery of friends and business acquaintances relishing in the corruption and greed of 19th-century England, but with a wink to pre-fascist Germany. In This Show, Mack the Knife Is a Woman 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

You have to play it at the jugular: sex, violence and corruption in the church? Prima Donnas 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z

Loznitsa paints sprawling tableaus of cruelty, corruption, vulgarity and lies through a series of intimate vignettes. ‘Donbass’ Review: War in Ukraine, the Prequel 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Menstruation has been called a punishment from God, a sign of corruption and a deadly poison. Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z

And editors would insist it does not affect their taste or judgment, which is their currency, despite the fact that in many other businesses, gifting of this nature may prompt accusations of bribery and corruption. The Dispossession of André Leon Talley 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

Who would ever guess that Gandhi helped start an industry whose corruption now plagues us all? A New Book Argues That Generic Drugs Are Poisoning Us 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

"The Kills" has similar goals as "Gravity's Rainbow": to expose the greed and corruption that thrives in the economy of war. Richard House's 'The Kills' challenges what a thriller can be 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

When Victor meets with Léger around the film's midpoint, he tells a story that involves corruption, payoffs, and misconduct, including an effort to lie about what happened. Why Josh Hartnett became addicted to making indie films: "It just feels more honest" 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Around 95% of Thais are Buddhist, yet the numerous stories of monks arrested for multi-million-dollar corruption scandals, or photographed on private jets carrying Louis Vuitton luggage, conflict with the supposed spiritual rejection of materialism. The man with the exploding head: the director inspired by his medical condition 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

And this is an ambitious and complicated premise, spoofing presidential decision-making; cronyism, hypocrisy and corruption in the military; tyranny and extremism in the Middle East; and Republicans. Review: ‘The Brink’ Stars Tim Robbins as a Sex-Crazed Secretary of State 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Jonathan went on to read a passage that highlighted the political corruption and manipulation that had mired the African oil giant since independence. Chinua Achebe funeral celebrates revered Nigerian author 2013-05-23T17:37:10Z

Studio staged Burgess’s taut drama about lobbying and systemic political corruption in 2018, with Marti Lyons directing. Review | Audio adaptation of Beltway drama ‘Kings’ tantalizes but ultimately falls flat without a stage 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

Building up to the trial, Bulger's attorneys stated he would testify in what promised to be an explosive tell-all of murder, extortion and corruption. Whitey Bulger: An American crime drama 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Their ordeal is leveraged by Jimenez to critique the corruption within the police force and the uneasy power dynamics wielded against marginalized people. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

The show, which opens at the Waterfront Museum on Friday, follows Marty, a longshoreman in 1950 who fights against the union corruption that controlled Red Hook’s waterfront. 7 Decades Later, Arthur Miller’s ‘The Hook’ Comes Home to Brooklyn 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

A singer and musician who entertained generations of Sri Lankans with captivating songs, but won their minds and hearts with his outspoken comments against social injustice, corruption, racism and suppression of democracy. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

They all remembered a kind of slow corruption, what they called a tugging in the gut when they felt they might be doing something wrong. Alex Gibney: ‘Every business Trump touched withered and died’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

The first transcontinental was built with money from the government, which led to all sorts of corruption. 'Railroaded': Richard White's history of the messy, haphazard development of America's railroads 2011-06-01T21:51:05Z

Senate and discovers political corruption in the Capitol, earned 11 Oscar nominations and won for best story, the original screenplay prize of its day. Film's golden year, 1939, included 'Gone With the Wind,' 'Wizard of Oz' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

But they also knew that having honest outsiders try to fight the Goliaths of corruption, oligarchy, Russian imperialism and international pressures would never be easy. Why Zelenskyy's background in comedy really matters 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z