Epstein’s America: How Modern Corruption Works

In this episode of The World Unpacked, Sarah tells host Jon Bateman why systemic corruption looks nothing like how we picture it, how anti-corruption advocates are co-opted as enablers, and what to say if someone asks you for a bribe. There’s a gnawing feeling in America and the West that a self-serving elite has corrupted society’s rules in its favor. The Epstein files have finally pulled back the curtain on hidden ways that powerful people network together to advance their own interests and evade accountability.

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Epstein’s America: How Modern Corruption Works is an episode from DiploPod by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

This episode is 00:45:25 long.

This episode was published on Feb 20, 2026.

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