Federal antitrust law has existed since the late 1800s because unchecked corporate power gouges consumers. The DOJ's Antitrust Division enforces that law, blocking mergers that crush competition and prosecuting price-fixing schemes that pad corporate margins at everyone else's expense. Under Attorney General Todd Blanche, that enforcement has quietly collapsed, and the collapse has a name attached to it. Gail Slater ran the Antitrust Division for nearly a year before she resi

Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Mutilated Currency Division A cat once met a $100 bill at the wrong end of its claws, shredded it into confetti, and turned what should have been a minor household disaster into a six-month federal investigation. The owner gathered every scrap, mailed them to Washington, and wrote a full account of the cat's crime for government examiners who take animal-versus-currency disputes more seriously than most people would expect. Half a year later