Mickey Cohen had friends in high places, from celebrities to televangelists to the LAPD. So what happened when one of…
It’s an illegal gambling, Nazi-punching, tax-paying good time with Mickey Cohen, a gangster who rose through the ranks during one…
As the internet creates new unmoderated spaces for ideas to spread, the sovereign citizen movement moves on to new audiences…
Don’t feel like paying your taxes? Want to start your own posse? Still mad about the gold standard? Looking for…
When you’re unhappy about the price of wheat, there’s only one solution: Send a telegraph to the Australian government declaring…
When an Englishman with the rare ability to speak Mandarin Chinese got into a dispute with a corrupt local official…
A negotiation over fishing rights took an unexpected turn when a Lithuanian fisherman jumped onto an American Coast Guard ship…
In a country where gay sex is illegal, is a magazine for gay people a publication for criminals? Is the…
If the obscene material you’re distributing is so avant-garde that most readers can’t tell it’s actually obscene, did you commit a crime or not? This week, we’re getting into the trial of the scandalous literary magazine editors who brought the work of James Joyce to America.
Not all scam artists prey on suckers’ desire to get rich quick or cheat the system. Some of them prey on their marks’ better impulses, like their love for their pet dogs or their willingness to help a stranger in an emergency.