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COLUMN: Why is government reluctant to retrieve funds stashed abroad? Daily News and Analysis (India), January 3, 2011

Corruption Currents: Trends to Look For In 2011 Wall Street Journal (Blog), December 30, 2010

2011: The Year Of The FCPA Piggyback? Wall Street Journal (Blog), December 29, 2010

Many Journalists Killed In 2010 Covered Corruption Wall Street Journal (Blog), January 4, 2011

India Examines Possible Tax Evasion in Kraft Takeover of Cadbury New York Times (Blog), January 3, 2011

Garcia, wife face tax evasion charges The Philippine Star, January 5, 2011

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Nick Clegg, I really must applaud you for following perfectly in step with a line of giant cowards that have recently been running policy in the United Kingdom. Ok let me back up before I start offending anyone. Which surely I have already done. That statement was a little harsh. The United Kingdom is a wonderful place. I should know, I grew up in Northern Ireland, just outside of Belfast. I called French fries “chips” for half of my life. This was actually particularly confusing for the lunch ladies at my middle school when...

You’ve probably heard a lot of talk on so-called rare earths. Rare earths are relatively unassuming minerals, down at the bottom of the periodic table. In elemental form, they are iron gray to silvery. They are often soft, malleable, and usually reactive, especially at high temperatures. These minerals are also used to manufacture everything from iPhones to wind turbines and from electric cars to military hardware. And China controls 97% of the world’s supply. This wasn’t a big deal until this November, when China decided to restrict the export of rare earths to Japan, likely...

In November, when the U.S. embarrassingly discovered it had been conducting months of secret negotiations with an imposter, posing as a high level Taliban leader, it was yet again underscored how little the NATO allies understand of the terrorist organization. In a massive and deadly version of “Where’s Waldo,” the U.S. is not even certain where Taliban leaders are hiding, though it is suspected they are somewhere in Pakistan, perhaps under the aid of the Pakistani government. Even less is understood of Taliban’s financing, though recent developments have answered the question of “what” more completely than “where.” Taliban...