Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America Highlight

When you’re trying to sell a highway that was once considered one of your nation’s great engineering marvels—532 miles of hard-built road that required tons of dynamite, wood, and steel and the labor of thousands to bore seven mighty tunnels through the Allegheny Mountains—when you’re offering that up to petro-despots just so you can fight off a single-year budget shortfall, just so you can keep the lights…