corrupt practices

Text and photographs explore the often adversarial relationship between academics and athletics.

Explores the controversy surrounding performance-enhancing drugs, discussing their use, their effects, use within individual sports and arguments for and against drug testing for athletes.

Explains how diamond smuggling in Sierra Leone has funded a brutal rebel war that has wrought havoc on the country's people; discusses connections to such groups as al-Quaeda; and measures the international diamond industry's complicity in the situation.

Exposes the corruption of Pennsylvania judge Mark A. Ciavarella who sentenced thousands of children who committed minor offenses to a detention facility in which he had a personal financial stake, and discusses the multitude of problems with the US juvenile justice system.

Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle's antics evolve from childhood pranks into the work of an elite hacker who is rumored to be able to get free long distance calls by whistling into pay phones, has caused the first computer virus with a video game piracy scheme, and more.

Former sports agent Josh Luchs looks at the real economy of college football, how agents win players legally and otherwise, the staggering sums colleges make from an unpaid workforce, the shortfalls of supposed full-ride scholarships, and the myth of a college education given to scholarship athletes.

Contains ten essays that debate issues related to voter fraud, discussing redistricting, electronic voting, absentee ballots, non-citizen voting, and other topics.

Research scientist Charles Martel comes into conflict with the medical-industrial system when he embarks on a frantic search for a cure for his twelve-year-old daughter's leukemia.

Presents the text of the 1947 play about Joe Keller, a manufacturer of aircraft parts during World War II who allows faulty cylinder heads to be sold to the Army and when caught, blames his employee and neighbor, destroying many lives in the process.

Traces the history of voter fraud in the United States, explaining how a corrupted political environment created by both parties has led to rampant fraud in local, state, and federal government elections.