America is built on cheating — and the fight against it
Unpack one of America's seminal founding stories, and what you discover is a scam and a double-cross worthy of a heist movie. Most of us think we know about Dutch traders paying Native Americans a pittance for Manhattan when they first arrived in 1626. The price was 60 guilders, or about $950 today. Not the glass beads and trinkets of legend — and the locals understood property rights more than we tend to think — but certainly not what the resource-filled peninsula was worth, then or now. Read more... More about Cheating, Cheat Week, Culture, Activism, and Politics