Thomas J. Carty is an assistant professor of American studies and history and chair of the Social Sciences Department at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass. He specializes in U.S. religion and politics and is the author of A Catholic in the White House? Religion, Politics and John F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign.

Members of Congress who are under ethics investigations have been using campaign funds to pay legal fees.

Ralph Reed’s defeat in the Republican primary for Georgia lieutenant governor is seen as the first sign of voter backlash against political corruption.

Read a Jan. 31, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle story about homeless youth who are LGBT.

Jane Iwamura is the chair of the religious studies program at the University of the West in Rosemead, Calif. She specializes in Asian-American religions, race and popular culture. She co-edited Revealing the Sacred in Asian & Pacific America.

A story about U.S. Rep. Bob Ney agreeing to plead guilty to accusations of conspiracy to commit fraud.

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 […]