
Making the world smaller for the corrupt
For too long, agencies have treated information as something to guard rather than share. Records sit in one office away from the office that needs them. That…
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For too long, agencies have treated information as something to guard rather than share. Records sit in one office away from the office that needs them. That…
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The influence of social media is not primarily a legal phenomenon. It is cultural: it lives in what we normalize, what we notice, and whether the friend who…
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The craft lies in the statement of the acts or omissions. This is where months of preliminary investigation and thousands of pages of documents and affidavits…
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The revised Rules of Criminal Procedure under deliberation include custodial hearings — an open-court determination of house arrest, hospital arrest, or…
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The idea is not new here. Anti-racketeering bills have been filed since the 1990s but they lapsed for want of urgency.
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A retraction can be bought or coerced as easily as testimony can, often more easily, because by then the witness is isolated, exposed, and out of money.
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From that moment he loses standing: he cannot participate, cannot seek relief, and regains his footing only by surrendering.
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A genuine fight against corruption, then, must be a whole-of-nation effort. It needs provincial offices with teeth, digital public bidding that closes the room…
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Documentary regularity and physical reality are often two different things, and it is in the gap between them that corruption lives.
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Constructive criticism, the kind that sharpens a policy, exposes a genuine failure, and holds power to account, is the lifeblood of a healthy democracy.
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