This is Part 2 of a 3-part series on internal investigations in the age of AI. Join Michael for a webinar on September 8, 2026 on this topic — Register HERE. AI tools promise to transform internal investigations — faster document review, instant summaries of witness interviews, pattern detection across millions of communications. The promise is real. So are the risks. Companies rushing to deploy...

This is Part 1 of a 3-part series on internal investigations in the age of AI. Join Michael for a webinar on September 8, 2026 on this topic — Register HERE. Every compliance professional knows the drill — the Justice Department speaks, and compliance programs adjust. When DOJ updated its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP) to address artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, most companies...

In the first two articles in this series, we examined corruption’s devastating impact on economic systems and its corrosive effect on democratic institutions and political legitimacy. In this concluding piece, we turn to the dimension that receives the least attention and may be the most consequential: what corruption does to the social fabric — the norms, relationships, and shared institutions that make civil society possible....

Democracies are not destroyed overnight. They do not typically fall to tanks rolling through capital cities or dramatic coups broadcast live on state television. More often, they are hollowed out slowly, incrementally, from within — by corruption that erodes the institutions designed to hold power accountable until those institutions become shells, performing the rituals of democracy while delivering none of its substance. Corruption is democracy’s...

Corruption is not a victimless crime. It is not an abstraction confined to bad actors in distant governments or kleptocratic regimes we read about in Foreign Affairs. It is a pernicious, systemic force that imposes a brutal and largely invisible tax on every citizen — on the price of medicine, the quality of roads, the fairness of a business license application, and the prospects of...