More than forty years after the Voting Rights Act of 1965, can the United States Justice Department trust voting jurisdictions with long histories of discrimination to make their own laws? As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case involving Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, The New Yorker’s Jeffery Toobin discusses the modern…
DetailsEach year, after the publication of the Global Integrity Report, we ask our field staff — some 274 researchers and journalists located around the world — what they thought about our online collaboration and methodology. This is what they said, unedited and anonymous. Global Integrity is the field staff – they’re 95 percent of the…
DetailsThe Global Integrity Impact Challenge is seeking proposals for projects that use Global Integrity’s diagnostic tools to fight corruption. The best proposals get a US$1,000 prize and a chance to pitch the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) for funding to implement their ideas. This post lays out everything you need to know to submit a…
DetailsTwo developments illustrate the Pentagon’s ongoing efforts to control the media conversation on war and war spending. First, the leak of the NATO “master narrative” on the war in Afghanistan details exactly how and where military commanders are instructed to shade the truth. On the other side of the ledger, the Obama administration is requiring…
DetailsEastern and Central Europe continues to perform relatively well on the Global Integrity Index despite widespread perceptions of weak anti-corruption and good governance mechanisms in the region. In this post, we look why the anti-corruption policies are so good while daily public experience of corruption remains discouraging. In Eastern and Central Europe (ECE), popular and…
DetailsDéo Namujimbo, Global Integrity’s reporter in the Democratic Republic of Congo, recently received top prize in the French Plume d’Or awards. This competition recognizes the work of Francophone journalists around the world, especially honoring those who work in extreme and dangerous situations. Congratulations to Déo, his six fellow Congolese recipients and the rest of the…
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