The U.S. Treasury expects millions of companies to name their owners Elizabeth Meehan - October 12, 2022 Will the Corporate Transparency Act cut down on illicit financial dealings? That’s the plan.
Why China’s wealthy elites have so much at stake in Hong Kong Andrea Binder - August 20, 2019 The semiautonomous territory attracts a lot of China’s private wealth, it turns out.
Ukrainians are protesting corruption — and using a new approach. Here’s how it works. Grigore Pop-Eleches and Robertson Graeme - January 5, 2018 [caption id="attachment_67842" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Protesters hold the Ukraine flag and
How today’s despots and kleptocrats hide their stolen wealth Jason Sharman and Alex Cooley - November 14, 2017 [caption id="attachment_66191" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Yang Xiuzhu is escorted from a
Iceland’s government has collapsed because the prime minister’s father wanted to “restore” a child molester’s “honor.” What is going on? Janet Johnson - September 26, 2017 [caption id="attachment_64038" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Bjarni Benediktsson of the Independence Party
Why are Crimean Tatars so hostile to Russia? Noam Lupu and Leonid Peisakhin - September 5, 2017 [caption id="attachment_63182" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Ukrainian, Crimean and Crimean Tatar flags
WikiLeaks strikes again. Here are 4 big questions about Vault 7. Brandon Valeriano - March 8, 2017 WikiLeaks is once again in the news with a massive
No, the Pirates didn’t win Iceland’s elections. Here’s what happened instead. Oddný Helgadóttir - October 30, 2016 [caption id="attachment_48631" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Birgitta Jonsdottir, right, of the Pirate
What Russia’s Olympic ban means for Vladimir Putin Kimberly Marten - June 20, 2016 Russia is the first country in the history of the
Things are heating up in eastern Ukraine. Here are three reasons why. Samuel Ramani - May 30, 2016 [caption id="attachment_41239" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Members of a volunteer battalion and
A Financial Times columnist says that taxes have nothing to do with fairness. Here’s why he’s wrong. Henry Farrell - April 12, 2016 [caption id="attachment_38987" align="aligncenter" width="908"] U.S. IRS 1040 individual income tax
For research, we pretended to be crooks and terrorists and tried to buy shell companies. The results were disturbing. Jason Sharman - April 7, 2016 People across the world, including world leaders, have been variously
Here’s what the research reveals about the violence in Nagorno Karabakh — and how ‘freezing’ conflicts can backfire Nelli Babayan - April 7, 2016 [caption id="attachment_38748" align="aligncenter" width="908"] A soldier of the defense army
The Panama Papers made Iceland’s prime minister resign. Here’s why. Oddný Helgadóttir - April 6, 2016 Iceland may be a small country, but it makes a
The question behind the Panama leak: Why aren’t international rules stopping offshore tax evasion? Leonard Seabrooke and Duncan Wigan - April 5, 2016 A lot of people are upset about the release of
Here is what the “Panama Papers” tell us about the President of Ukraine Zoya Mylovanova and Tymofiy Mylovanov - April 5, 2016 [caption id="attachment_38524" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine's president, speaks during