Political corruption

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37-46	March 2008 Article Vote Machine: How Republicans hacked the Justice Department: How Republicans hacked the Justice Department By Scott Horton SEE ALSO: Alien and Sedition laws, 1798; Attorneys general; Career as U.S. president; Corrupt practices; Siegelman, Don; Elections; Executive power; False imprisonment; Bush, George W.; Imprisonment; 2001-; Officials and employees; Political corruption; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); Selection and appointment; United States. Dept. of Justice PDF TEXT IMAGES
28	January 2008 Readings/Article Scare trade By Kevin Casas Zamora and Fernando Sánchez SEE ALSO: Commerce; Correspondence; Costa Rica; Free trade; Arias Sánchez, Oscar; Political corruption; Referendum; Arias, Rodrigo PDF IMAGES
63-69	January 2007 Article Republic or empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States By Chalmers A. Johnson SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Democracy; Executive power; Bush, George W.; Imperialism; Keynesian economics; Military Industrial Complex; Military policy; 2001-; Political corruption; Powers and duties; Representative government and representation; Republicanism; United States. Congress PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	January 2007 Notebook/Article Uncle Sam By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Democracy; Bush, George W.; Military Industrial Complex; 2001-; Political corruption; Powers and duties; Uncle Sam (Nickname); United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
67-73	August 2006 Article The minister of civil war: Bayan Jabr, Paul Bremer, and the rise of the Iraqi death squads By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Jabr, Bayan; Career as Coalition Provisional Authority administrator; Career as Iraqi interior minister; Coalition Provisional Authority; Collaborationists; Death squads; Insurgency; Iraq; Iraq War, 2003-; Bremer, L. Paul; 2003-; Officials and employees; Political corruption; Postwar reconstruction; Shiites PDF TEXT IMAGES
23-24	June 2006 Readings/Article Green zone SEE ALSO: Coalition Provisional Authority; Correspondence; Corrupt practices; Iraq War, 2003-; Philip Bloom; Political corruption; Reconstruction; Stein, Robert J.; Trials (Burglary); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF TEXT IMAGES
27-35	March 2006 Article The case for impeachment: Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as member of U.S. Congress; Causes; Bush, George W.; Iraq War, 2003-; Conyers, John; Military leadership; 2001-; Political corruption; Powers and duties; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
9-11	December 2005 Notebook/Article The simple life By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Corporations; Corrupt practices; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; 2001-; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
7-9	August 2005 Notebook/Article Moving on By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as Deep Throat; Political corruption; Press and propaganda; Truthfulness and falsehood; Felt, W. Mark; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 PDF TEXT IMAGES
31-38	July 2005 Article The great American pork barrel: Washington streamlines the means of corruption By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Lobbyists; Political corruption; United States. Congress; Waste in government spending PDF TEXT IMAGES
7-9	July 2005 Notebook/Article Be prepared By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Corporations; Corrupt practices; Democracy; Individualism; Journalistic ethics; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
45-56	December 2004 Article Meet the new boss: Man vs. machine politics in Brooklyn By Christopher Ketcham SEE ALSO: Brooklyn (New York, New York); Career in politics; O'Hara, John; Steffens, Lincoln; Political corruption; Views on political corruption PDF IMAGES
26	October 2004 Readings/Article Block the vote! SEE ALSO: Raymond, Allen; McGee, Chuck; Corrupt practices; Elections; Political corruption; Telephone in politics; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
9-11	January 2003 Notebook/Article When in Rome By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Abuse of administrative power; Political corruption; Roman influences PDF IMAGES
31-32	March 2001 Readings/Article How it's done SEE ALSO: Assassination; Ethics; Government and the press; Honhadze, Heorhii; Kuchma, L.D. (Leonid Danylovych); Political corruption; Ukraine PDF IMAGES
74-75	January 2001 Article Postcard from the edge: Applying Kremlinology to Peruvian spymaster Vladimiro Montesinos By Mark Schapiro SEE ALSO: Career in Peruvian politics; Exiles; Intelligence officers; 1980-; Panama; Peru; Political corruption; Portraits; Montesinos Torres, Vladimiro PDF IMAGES
18	March 1998 Readings/Article The campaign-finance refund? By James A. Cartrette SEE ALSO: Bribery; Campaign funds; Career as North Carolina governor; Hunt, James B.; Officials and employees; Political corruption; Selection and appointment PDF IMAGES
20-22	September 1996 Readings/Article Ken Saro-Wiwa's last laugh By Ken Saro-Wiwa SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Executions and executioners; Saro-Wiwa, Ken; Nigeria; Political corruption; Political prisoners PDF IMAGES
6-9	August 1994 Notebook/Article A bull for Apollo By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Rostenkowski, Dan; Misconduct in office; Political corruption; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Misconduct in office) PDF IMAGES
47-53	May 1993 Article Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: How Poland's nomenklatura learned to love capitalism By Tina Rosenberg SEE ALSO: Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Career as municipal official; Communism; Municipal officials and employees; Poland; Political corruption; Kisielewicz, Ryszard PDF IMAGES
18	August 1992 Readings/Article The buying of the president SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Political corruption; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
30-32	November 1991 Readings/Article Living it up in Albania By Genc Ruli SEE ALSO: Albania; Expense accounts; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
19-26	May 1991 Readings/Article Influence: A buyer's guide SEE ALSO: Arizona; Meredith, Jim; Stedino, Joseph; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
66-67	September 1989 Article The sum of their possessions: Taking the measure of Bush's ambassadors By Murray Waas SEE ALSO: Ambassadors; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
13-15	February 1988 Notebook/Article A wish for kings By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Legislative hearings; 1945-1989; Political corruption; Subversive activities PDF IMAGES
45-56	February 1988 Article Reviewing the book By Joe Conason, Daniel Schorr, Walter Karp, Leslie Cockburn, and Sam Dash SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Executive privilege (Government information); Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Legislative hearings; Political corruption; Reagan, Ronald; Subversive activities PDF IMAGES
57-67	December 1987 Article Panama fallen among thieves. Of General Noriega and a country convulsed By Guillermo Sánchez SEE ALSO: Career as leader of Panama; Dictatorship; Government, Resistance to; Noriega, Manuel Antonio; Military leadership; 1981-; Panama; Political activity; Political corruption; Díaz Herrera, Roberto PDF IMAGES
48-49	July 1987 Article On the outside, cashing in. Michael Deaver and all the president's salesmen By Eric Alterman SEE ALSO: Ethics; Foreign agents; Friends and associates; Legal status, laws, etc.; Lobbying; Deaver, Michael K.; Political corruption; Political ethics; Reagan, Ronald; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
8-11	February 1987 Notebook/Article Sending in the clowns By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Friends and associates; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; 1981-1989; Political corruption; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
20-23	May 1984 Readings/Article Reagangates, 1981-1984 By Thomas Riehle SEE ALSO: Friends and associates; 1981-1989; Political corruption; Reagan, Ronald; Scandals PDF IMAGES
23-26	February 1983 Letter from abroad/Article The making of Andropov, 1982: Dirty campaign tricks, Soviet-style By Andrew Nagorski SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Heads of state; Andropov, ëIìU. V. (ëIìUriæi Vladimirovich); 1953-1985; Political corruption; Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES
16-24	August 1981 Article Oiling the machine: The education of Alfonse D'Amato By Jonathan Kwitny SEE ALSO: D'Amato, Alfonse; Career in politics; 1951-; Political corruption; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
34-39	May 1980 Article His former majesty, Bokassa: And the flourishing French empire in Africa By Jeff B. Harmon SEE ALSO: Coronation; Despotism; Bokassa I, Emperor of the Central African Empire; Political corruption; Giscard d'Estaing, Valéry PDF IMAGES
47-66	September 1979 Article The money vanishes: Certain matters relating to T. Bertram Lance and various financial institutions By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis SEE ALSO: Bankers; Banks and banking; Lance, Bert; Calhoun; Career as U.S. president; Corrupt practices; Carter, Jimmy; Lance, LaBelle; Legislative hearings; Malpractice; 1977-1981; Officials and employees; Pictorial works; Political corruption; Staff; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Office of Management and Budget PDF IMAGES
20-29	February 1979 Article Behind closed borders: Paraguay's use of torture and repression By Penny Lernoux SEE ALSO: Stroessner, Alfredo; Career as Paraguay dictator; Human Rights; Paraguay; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
73-76	October 1974 Article Heroes and fools By Herbert L. Porter SEE ALSO: Employees; Porter, Herbert L.; Political corruption; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Role in Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 PDF IMAGES
13-20	September 1974 Article The limited hang-out By Arthur Miller SEE ALSO: Knowledge, Watergate Affair; Misconduct in office; Political corruption; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 PDF IMAGES
79-85	August 1974 Article Aspects of a modern hero By Sidney Zion SEE ALSO: Career in law; Stern, Herbert; Misconduct in office; 1951-; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
14-21	December 1973 The easy chair/Article The Christmas honors list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: America's Quarter horses (Book); Wadhwa, B.D.; De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Kitzman, Betty; Biography; Campaign funds; Career as Chairman of the Boston Redevelopment Authority; Career as mayor of Cedar Falls, Iowa; Career in Indian politics; Career in radio; Career in real estate promotion; Chattanooga; Gay, Connie B.; Contribution to campaign finance reform, Iowa; Country music radio stations; Lally, Francis J.; Historic preservation; Iowa; Crews, Jon; Leinster, James Fitzgerald, Duke of,; New Delhi; Laune, Paul; Political corruption; Railroad stations; Real estate business; The uneasy chair: a biography of Bernard De Voto (Book); Urban renewal; Stegner, Wallace Earle; Wildlife conservation PDF IMAGES
12	September 1973 Wraparound/Article Honest graft By George Washington Plunkitt SEE ALSO: Political corruption; Tammany Hall PDF IMAGES
12-13	September 1973 Wraparound/Article The team spirit By Taylor Branch SEE ALSO: Corporations; Corrupt practices; Group identity; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
14	September 1973 Wraparound/Article Either you're on the bus or off the bus By Philip K. Bock SEE ALSO: Anthropology; Cultural relativism; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
38-42	June 1973 Article Presidential guile By Clark R. Mollenhoff SEE ALSO: Fitzgerald, Ernest; Firing from United States Air Force, 1969; Governmental investigations; Knowledge—Firing of Ernest Fitzgerald, 1969; Political corruption; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Staff; United States. Air Force PDF IMAGES
102-111	November 1972 Article A tax assessor has many friends By George, Jr. Crile SEE ALSO: Career as tax assessor; Gary; Gary (Ind.); Political corruption; Tax assessment; Fadell, Thomas R. PDF IMAGES
25-36	August 1968 Article Daley of Chicago By David Halberstam SEE ALSO: Career as mayor of Chicago, Ill.; Chicago (Ill.); Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.); Municipal government; 1951-; Political corruption; Public opinion; Daley, Richard J. PDF IMAGES
18-24	October 1966 The easy chair/Article Invitation to bribery By Alfred Balk SEE ALSO: Bribery; Land use; Planning; Political corruption; Zoning law PDF IMAGES
33-38	June 1966 Washington insight/Article The truth about the Abba Schwartz case By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Schwartz, Abba P.(Abba Philip); Yarmolinsky, Adam; Cabinet officers; Career in government; Career in United States Passport Office; Conservatism; Rusk, Dean; Firing from Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, 1966; Knight, Frances G.; Involvement in Abba Schwartz affair; Liberalism; 1963-1969; Political corruption; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
125	September 1965 Article Cleaning up the Illinois legislature: A follow-up report By Paul Simon SEE ALSO: 1951-; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
45-54	August 1965 Article Washington's money birds: A guide to the Lobbyist Americanus and his predatory pursuits By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Lobbying; Lobbyists; Political activists; Political corruption; Political participation PDF IMAGES
74-78	September 1964 Article The Illinois legislature: A study in corruption By Paul Simon and Alfred Balk SEE ALSO: 1951-; Political corruption; Syndicate (Chicago, Ill. : Gang) PDF IMAGES
43-49	December 1963 Article Africa's new elites By David Hapgood SEE ALSO: Hapgood, David; Elite (Social sciences); Journeys—Africa, French-speaking West; 1960; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
94-96	October 1963 Article Louisiana's wonderful invention By Ed Kerr SEE ALSO: 1951-; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
73-86	March 1960 Article Two millionaires, two senators, and a Faubus: The curious constellation of Arkansas politics By Louis E. Lomax SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Career as U.S. senator; Career in Arkansas politics; Civil Rights; Elections, 1960; Fulbright, J. William (James William); McClellan, John L. (John Little); 1951-; Faubus, Orval Eugene; Political corruption; Racism; School integration; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
12-19	December 1959 The editor's easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Falk, Alexander A.; Maremont, Arnold H.; Career as member of Texas State Insurance Board; Career as New York (State) racetrack steward; —Career as president of Civil Service Commission in New York (State); Career as U.S. senator; Career in philanthropy; Civil service positions; Community power; Conflict of interests; Corporations; Irons, David; Espionage, Soviet; Ethics; Dunn, Francis P.; Gibney, Frank; Lavery, George; Horse racing; Houston; Insurance crimes; Naples; Noise; Orphanages; Deriabin, Peter; Philanthropists; Political corruption; Political ethics; Puerto Ricans; Leibowitz, Samuel Simon; Young, Stephen M. (Stephen Marvin); The secret world (Book); United States. Congress. Senate; Views on political activity of corporations; Views on social conditions in New York (New York) PDF IMAGES
12-16	December 1957 The editor's easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Advertising, Outdoor; Amateur arts; Austria; Baruch, Bernard M. (Bernard Mannes); Breweries; California, Southern; Career in philanthropy; Cooks; Dallas; Danbury; Elections, 1956; Labor leaders; Litter (Trash); Marriage; Montañez, Marta; Open spaces; Casals, Pablo; Political corruption; Prison psychology; Public relations firms; Racketeering; Salzburg; United States. Congress. Senate; Women philanthropists PDF IMAGES
68-74	March 1957 Article What corrupted Texas? By Ronnie Dugger SEE ALSO: Censorship; Conflict of interests; Corrupt practices; Insurance crimes; Lobbying; 1951-; Political corruption; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
50-56	November 1956 Article Shivers of Texas: A tragedy in three acts By D.B. Hardeman SEE ALSO: Shivers, Allan; Career as Texas governor; Governors; Insurance crimes; 1951-; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
38-42	July 1956 Article Yankee morals and the $2 bet By John Strohmeyer SEE ALSO: Betting; Horse racing; Journalistic ethics; Patronage, Political; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
31-36	February 1955 Article Florida: The state with the two-way stretch By William L. Rivers SEE ALSO: Growth; Industrialization; Political corruption; Tax incentives; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
52-58	November 1954 Article Merriam of Chicago: Politician without a party By Joseph N. Bell SEE ALSO: Career in Chicago politics; Chicago (Ill.); City council members; Police corruption; Political corruption; Merriam, Robert PDF IMAGES
25-28	April 1954 Article The reputation of the government By Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson SEE ALSO: Civil Rights; Political corruption; Political ethics; Representative government and representation PDF IMAGES
57-60	May 1953 The easy chair/Article The sturdy corporate homesteader By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Offshore oil industry; Political corruption; Public land sales PDF IMAGES
38-46	July 1952 Article The anatomy of graft By Joseph F. (Joseph Francis) Dinneen SEE ALSO: Local officials and employees; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
77	May 1952 Article Cuffnotes for candidates By Walt Whitman SEE ALSO: Democracy; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
27-33	January 1952 Article Corruption in Washington: And what lies behind it By Blair Bolles SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Government spending policy; Truman, Harry S.; Internal revenue; Misconduct in office; Political corruption; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Social legislation; Undue influence PDF IMAGES
221-228	October 1950 Article The villains By Gerald W. (Gerald White) Johnson SEE ALSO: Authoritarianism; Capitalists and financiers; Democracy; Political corruption; Toleration PDF IMAGES
37-50	July 1949 Article The tribunal that stirred England: Part II. How Mr. Sherman met Mr. Stanley, and what came of it By Rebecca, Dame West SEE ALSO: Book-making (Betting); Bribery; Cabinet officers; Corrupt practices; Governmental investigations; Great Britain. Tribunal to Inquire into Allegations Reflecting on the Official Conduct of Ministers of the Crown and Other Public Servants; Sherman, Harry; Investigation for bribery, 1948; Belcher, John; Political corruption; Stanley, Sidney PDF IMAGES
21-33	June 1949 Article The tribunal that stirred England: Part I. Mr. Stanley and Mr. Belcher By Rebecca, Dame West SEE ALSO: Bribery; Cabinet officers; Governmental investigations; Great Britain. Tribunal to Inquire into Allegations Reflecting on the Official Conduct of Ministers of the Crown and Other Public Servants; Investigation for bribery, 1948; Belcher, John; Political corruption; Stanley, Sidney PDF IMAGES
54-61	January 1947 Article The battle of Athens, Tennessee By Theodore Harold White SEE ALSO: Athens; Corrupt practices; Elections; Political corruption; Sieges; Veterans PDF IMAGES
97-105	January 1945 Article Politicians vs. bureaucrats: The case of FCC Chairman Fly and Congressman Cox By Robert D. Leigh SEE ALSO: Cox, Eugene; Leadership of congressional investigation of Federal Communications Commission, 1943; Political corruption; United States. Federal Communications Commission PDF IMAGES
343-357	September 1936 Article The kingfish of Massachusetts By Joseph F. (Joseph Francis) Dinneen SEE ALSO: Career in Massachusetts politics; Governors; Curley, James Michael; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
614-616	April 1936 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Fees; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
252	January 1934 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Ethics; Government and the press; Toll, Henry Wolcott; Alexander, Holmes Moss; Political corruption; Views on government and the press PDF IMAGES
493-503	March 1933 Article Close-up of a ward politician: A study from the life By John Thomas Salter SEE ALSO: Municipal government; Municipal officials and employees; Political corruption; Politics, Practical; Professional ethics PDF IMAGES
409-418	March 1931 Article The scandals of New York By Alva Johnston SEE ALSO: Career as New York governor; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano); Judicial corruption; Police corruption; Political corruption; Tammany Hall PDF IMAGES
605-614	October 1927 Article Official lawlessness: The third degree and the crime wave By Oswald Garrison Villard SEE ALSO: Police brutality; Police questioning; Political corruption; Torture PDF IMAGES
774-788	May 1921 Article Hail, Columbia! Parthian shots By Walter Lionel George SEE ALSO: Child rearing; Correctional institutions; Justice, Administration of; Married women; Political corruption; Prohibition PDF IMAGES
408-413	August 1919 Article The wrong side of the looking-glass: Impressions of topsy-turvy Russia By Arthur Bullard SEE ALSO: Diplomatic and consular service, American; Moscow; Moscow (Russia); Political corruption; Rationing; Revolution, 1917-1921 PDF IMAGES
67-70	December 1905 Article The integrity of American character By Grover Cleveland SEE ALSO: Business ethics; Character; Ethics; Political corruption; Wealth PDF IMAGES
410-417	August 1904 Article Good Queen Bess? By Martin Andrew Sharp Hume SEE ALSO: Ethics; 16th century; Political corruption; Portraits; Elizabeth I, Queen of England; Anjou, François, duc d' PDF IMAGES
641-646	September 1899 Article A cure for city corruption By J.W. Martin SEE ALSO: Municipal government; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
182-190	July 1898 Article The people and their government By Henry Loomis Nelson SEE ALSO: Democracy; 1865-1900; Political corruption; Representative government and representation PDF IMAGES
324	July 1898 Editor's drawer/Article A crafty financial episode SEE ALSO: Forgery; Political corruption; Sardines; South America PDF IMAGES
232-237	July 1896 Article English elections By Henry Cabot Lodge SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Elections; 1837-1901; Political corruption; Politics, Practical PDF IMAGES
649	March 1894 Editor's drawer/Article A future citizen SEE ALSO: Arbor Day; Italian Americans; Political corruption; Women teachers PDF IMAGES
811	April 1892 Editor's drawer/Article A hesitating voter By Y. X. SEE ALSO: Political corruption PDF IMAGES
807	October 1890 Editor's drawer/Article A strong argument SEE ALSO: Horse railroads; Political corruption PDF IMAGES

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