Editorial: It’s Past Time to Prohibit Personal Enrichment by Office Holders

Livingston: Government corruption is educating future generations

by Gaylord LivingstonLet’s stop pretending the kids aren’t watching.They’ve seen members of Congress openly trade stocks on insider information with no consequences. They’ve watched Supreme Court justices accept lavish gifts from billionaires while ruling on cases that directly affect those same benefactors. They’ve heard a former president brag about dodging taxes and face dozens of felony charges—while still being a leading candidate. And thro…

Editorial: It’s past time to prohibit personal enrichment by office holders

So many Americans seem to reflexively believe their elected officials are corrupt — at least two-thirds of adults, according to a recent poll by YouGov — it sometimes seems as if such suspicions are a requirement of citizenship. It certainly doesn’t help, though, when the president and lawmakers do less and less to avoid the appearance of wrongdoing or commit acts that, by any reasonable standard, defy the responsibilities of holding elected off…

A stark example of transnational corruption

Corruption is one of the most pervasive and corrosive challenges to governance, economic growth, and human rights worldwide. It diverts public funds from essential services, deepens inequality, and erodes trust in institutions. Nowhere is this more evident than in cases of grand corruption, where high-level officials manipulate state resources for personal gain with impunity. Recent […]

It is not surprising that the European Commission operates this way, because if we look at the past ten years, we see that it is a network of corruption.