Tag: kleptocracy

• Superyachts and private jets: spending of corrupt super-rich revealed

  October 24, 2019

  The multimillion pound spending habits of corrupt members of the global super-rich – including 421 luxury homes, three superyachts, seven private jets as well as elite private school fees and… more ›

• ‘We’re at War’: A Covert Social Media Campaign Boosts Military Rulers

  September 8, 2019

  CAIRO — Days after Sudanese soldiers massacred pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum in June, an obscure digital marketing company in Cairo began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert… more ›

• Asian billionaires embark on UK spending spree as pound nosedives

  August 23, 2019

  China’s president, Xi Jinping, and David Cameron famously sealed their countries’ “golden era” friendship in 2015 over a pint of Greene King IPA at The Plough at Cadsden, a five-minute… more ›

• What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery

  August 19, 2019

  If you want to understand American politics in 2019 and the strain of reactionary extremism that has taken over the Republican Party, a good place to start is 2011: the… more ›

• What Does Putin Really Want?

  June 26, 2019

  This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. On a warm late-May afternoon, I took a taxi to the outskirts of the Russian capital to the Moscow State Institute of… more ›

• ‘It’s totally unfair’: Chicago, where the rich live 30 years longer than the poor

  June 24, 2019

  Walking down 69th Street in Englewood, Chicago, near where she grew up, Michelle Rashad gestures to a rundown retail shop, across from a long open lot. “At this store, there’s… more ›

• The Self-Destruction of American Power

  June 16, 2019

  Sometime in the last two years, American hegemony died. The age of U.S. dominance was a brief, heady era, about three decades marked by two moments, each a breakdown of… more ›

• This Is What It Takes to Be in the 1% Around the World

  May 19, 2019

  Since the financial crisis, income inequality has garnered increasing attention from economists, politicians, and journalists, and perhaps no income level has been cited more than the so-called 1 Percent. Yet… more ›

• Who owns the country? The secretive companies hoarding England’s land

  April 19, 2019

  Multi-million pound corporations with complex structures have purchased the very ground we walk on – and we are only just beginning to discover the damage it is doing to Britain.… more ›

• Red redemption

  April 4, 2019

  The Kremlin is expanding its outreach and influence in Africa. Russia is boosting its military sales and economic cooperation across Africa, entering the continent’s emerging nuclear energy market and expanding… more ›