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April 25, 2024
Casey Michel
How Paul Manafort Turned Trump Against Ukraine
Amid rumors that the oft-disgraced fixer might be making a return to Trump's orbit, it's worth revisiting his role in fostering the former president's animus toward the war-torn nation.
March 15, 2024
Casey Michel
How Viktor Orbán Conquered the Heritage Foundation
Once the redoubt of Reaganism, the think tank has taken to promoting Trump’s favorite strongman.
February 13, 2024
Casey Michel
The American Consulting Firms That Live in Fear of Their Murderous Clients
What keeps companies like McKinsey in the business of whitewashing the regimes of bloodthirsty dictators? Increasingly, it’s the consequences of crossing them.
August 2, 2023
Sarath Ganji
The Corruption of Sportswashing Comes Home to Washington
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund has changed the game by sinking its hooks into three U.S. sports franchises.
June 1, 2023
Matthew Duss
The Bad Thing Henry Kissinger Did That You Don’t Even Know About
It may not be up there with East Timor, but the practice of turning vast global contacts into wealth has been horrible for American democracy.
October 10, 2022
Jason Linkins
The United States of Plutocracy
As if dodgy oligarchs and shifty tax cheats didn’t have enough help hiding their ill-gotten gains, your state government may have stepped up to join the con.
August 4, 2022
Casey Michel
The Kleptocrat Who Bankrolled Rudy Guiliani’s Dive for Dirt on Biden
Fresh reporting illuminates the role that Dmitro Firtash played in funding the operation that would end in Trump's first impeachment.
June 27, 2022
Casey Michel
Congress Takes Aim at Think Tanks and Their Corrupt Money
A new piece of bipartisan legislation seeks to purge This Town of foreign influence peddling—all of it.
May 12, 2022
Casey Michel
Ukraine’s Corrupt Oligarchs Are Looking Toward the West to Rehab Their Reputations
Some of the grifters who paved the way for the Russian invasion of Ukraine want to be seen as being on the right side of the war.
April 27, 2022
Casey Michel
Representative Steve Cohen Wants to Build a New Weapon to Fight Kleptocrats
British lawyers have long helped corrupt oligarchs protect their ill-gotten loot. The Tennessee Democrat wants to hold these enablers to account.
April 20, 2022
Casey Michel
Jared Kushner’s Saudi Scam Is the Swampiest Thing He’s Ever Done
Trump’s son-in-law may be the hot new player in Washington’s seamy influence-peddling game, but he’s following in the footsteps of many of the Beltway’s major players.
March 16, 2022
Timothy Noah
The Oligarchs Can’t Depose Putin—but Let’s Put the Screws to Them Anyway
They’ve had it coming for a very long time.
February 22, 2022
Casey Michel
Vladimir Putin’s Empire of Delusions
In a lengthy screed, the Russian dictator made it clear that his ambitions are to restore his nation’s status as a colonizer of Europe.
February 15, 2022
Casey Michel
How the West Botched Ukraine
It wasn’t the drive to bring security to Europe that led to the brink of war. It was providing corrupt autocrats with secure havens for their stolen loot.
January 26, 2022
Casey Michel
Azerbaijani Kleptocrats Have Been Getting Their Money’s Worth in Washington for a Long Time
Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar’s not the only lawmaker illicitly involved with the regime, he’s just the one who (maybe) got caught.
January 12, 2022
Casey Michel
The End of America’s Kazakhstan Delusion
Long sold as an island of stability in a sea of chaos, the nation has collapsed into misrule, requiring swift action against its kleptocratic rulers.
December 27, 2021
Casey Michel
It’s Put Up or Shut Up Time in the Fight Against Global Corruption
Biden ended 2021 advancing some much needed measures to battle foreign kleptocrats. Next year, he can win the war.
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