Buried in para 17 or so of this whimsical NYT magazine piece on the failure of Congress to get rid of the frustrating US penny is an admission of the profoundly deep and intractable corruption that infests government at all levels in the United States.
You'd kinda hope the corruption angle was in para one, or even the headline.
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