A collection of news articles and opinion pieces from around the world about political corruption.

Carolyn Chen is an associate professor in the ethnic studies department at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research interests include religion, ethnicity, immigration and sociology of work.

Richard Ledet and Patrick Flavin at the University of Notre Dame published a research report exploring the relationship between the amount of religious people in the state and the amount of corruption found among the state’s politicians. Although the two expected that a more religious population would yield less corruption, they found no relationship between the […]

Read a Jan. 15, 2006, Los Angeles Daily News article, posted by Jews on First, about a Simi Valley school board member’s proposal for a secondary school anti-discrimination program.

Read a Jan. 10, 2007, Washington Post story about approval by the Montgomery County (Md.) Board of Education of a sex education curriculum for eighth- and 10th-graders that discusses sexual orientation.

Read an April 1, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle story about legislation around the nation involving sexual orientation in public schools.

Bitterlemons is an online roundtable, a publication on the Middle East put out by Palestinian sociologist Ghassan Khatib and Yossi Alpher, a consultant on Israeli-related strategic issues.

Read a Dec. 2, 2006, New York Times article about parents and schools facing issues with children who do not conform to gender norms.

Michael O. Emerson is a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written several books on race and religion, including People of the Dream: Multiracial Congregations in the United States and Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America.