Political Corruption

"The war is still raging. And [Gene Nichol]’s still fighting." —John Grisham North Carolina has, since 2013, undergone a greater political sea c...

'One of the most important books I've read in years' Brian EnoWe are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared...

When you next sit down at your local coffee shop, look around you: there may just be a professional hitman sitting at the next table. As author Mar...

A Wall Street Journal best book of the year"What made this episode in our collective history possible was not so much the lies we told one another,...

The Profumo Affair was the political scandal of the twentieth century. The Tory War Minister, John Profumo, had been sleeping with the teenage Chri...

Lies and Falsehoods: The Morrison Government and The New Culture of Deceit by well-known political journalist Bernard Keane combines Crikey's eye-o...

'First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three' Guardian 'Cruel, unforgiving, muc...

This is the story of how a small island on the edge of Europe became one of the world’s major tax havens. From global corporations such as Apple an...

‘This pioneering and judicious history of foreign intervention in elections should be read by everyone who wants to defend democracy n...

'It will terrify you but it's a story you must know.' - Mandy WienerIt was one of the most brutal criminal acts of the post-apartheid era, and its ...

"The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the Wor...

The people of Brazil celebrated when they learned that in the space of two years their country would host the world's two largest sporting events: ...

The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine and schoolgirls ...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A ground-breaking investigation into the oil and gas industry, international corruption and world politics. Oil. ...

The award-winning poet's darkly riotous debut, exploring stereotypes of Black male identity and sexuality in a corrupt systemLyrical, loud and ra...