What helped Julius Caesar seize the throne of ancient Rome? How did the Medici family gain control over Renaissance Florence? What fueled the Panama Canal scandal, thwarted Black banking in Jim Crow America, or powered the Koch Brothers' climate-denial machine? Money, plain and simple. With enough of it, anything is possible, even turning outright lies into something that resembles the truth.
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