A fake passport just passed a scanner at a major international airport, and the border agent waved the man through. This wasn't a blurry, laminated card made in a basement; it was a $2 million masterpiece. It was the product of a high-tech criminal...
Facing the immense, immediate costs of fighting the British in 1776, the fledgling government of the Continental Congress was in a desperate financial bind. Without the authority to levy taxes—a power granted only after the war under the Constitution—the delegates had to rely on...
