I came across news and pictures of PETA [People for the ethical Treatment of Animals] activists protesting in “Nude” in support of the right of the...

With one governor in prison and another under indictment, Illinois officials must choose between patching holes in current ethics laws or attempting a top-to-bottom...

An ethics complaint filed against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin claims the legal defense fund she formed last week to challenge such claims is an ethics violation itself.

I wasn’t looking to buy a kidney, I just happened upon it while trying to save my own ass. I was looking for a pintacaritas, actually I had supposedly already...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s office says she’s being victimized by ridiculous ethics complaints.

South Korea’s soccer association said Wednesday it has formally referred Asian Football Confederation president Mohamed bin Hammam to FIFA’s ethics and...

The nation’s federal judges adopted revised ethics rules Tuesday that for the first time define the “appearance of impropriety” that must be avoided....

Concerned about dwindling confidence in the impartiality of judges, the Supreme Court leaned Tuesday toward forcing elected judges to step aside from cases that would...

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a sensitive dispute about judicial ethics.

The Texas Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint against a state Supreme Court justice over the use of campaign cash.

In Kenya ,the art of governing entails giving people not what they want , but what they will learn to want. Even more extensive political participation is...

House Democrats voted down an attempt Tuesday to remove Rep. Charles Rangel as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee during an ongoing ethics...

Despite the tax problems faced by high-level nominees, and the exceptions made to the no-lobbyists pledge, President Barack Obama’s spokesman is defending the...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says there may be too much of a good thing when it comes to ethics scrutiny of government officials.

President Barack Obama won lavish praise from good-government groups when he announced restrictions that he said would “close the revolving door that lets...

Gov. Deval Patrick is backing sweeping changes to Massachusetts’ ethics laws, including dramatically increasing prison time for bribery and giving the attorney...

An unusual alliance between public interest groups, corporate giants and even ex-judges has formed in a U.S. Supreme Court case over the ethics of a West Virginia judge...

A close friend of the Massachusetts House speaker was charged Thursday with concealing work as a lobbyist while having direct contact with the speaker _ the first...

Today, as expected after every terrorist attack, we find people criticizing politicians, leaders and generally clamoring to clean-up public life. Such terrorist attacks...

House Republicans were heading toward a down-in-the-dumps holiday. Then the House ethics committee handed them a gift.