A year before Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Bossert Clark tried to help Donald Trump overturn the presidential election results, he sought to delay one of the biggest water pollution cases…
In July 2018, an Italian-flagged oil supply ship called the Asso Ventotto that was crossing the Mediterranean Sea encountered a stalled rubber raft carrying 101 desperate migrants. Trying to make…
SAYING what you mean, and meaning what you say, is apparently so old-fashioned. Recent events have reminded us though that there are always exceptions to the rule. Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s audio…
PROSECUTIONS have become the flavour of the season, ever since the BJP regime headed by Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. The law of torts deals with the civil…
Ukrainian judge Artur Yemelianov has acknowledged in an online declaration that he owns a Breguet watch worth nearly a third of his annual salary and keeps piles of cash. On…
Analysing material from the "Arms-to-Iraq affair" archive and studying key American political events including Watergate, Iran-Contra and Bill Clinton's impeachment, Dr Professor Glen Newey, a Reader in politics at Strathclyde…
With Mafia king Toto Riina's death, and heir Matteo Messina Denaro on the run, is it game over for Sicily's once all-powerful Cosa Nostra? "Boss of bosses" Riina, who was…
Turkey's deteriorating finances are hurting the country's banks whose reliance on dollar funding makes them vulnerable to the worst-case scenario: a sudden halt or reversal of foreign investment flows. International…
Speaking to Salon’s Chauncy de Vega about how the United States is mired in a crisis of democracy that shows parallels with Germany’s descent into Nazism during the 1930s, Norman…
In the febrile build-up to Britain’s Brexit deal with the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there would only be a trade border down the Irish Sea “over my…
