On June 2, 2022, the United States government spent $12,458 to scrub the hull of a Russian oligarch’s super-yacht. Six days later, U.S. taxpayers spent $52,717.08 primarily on meat, fish,

This article is part of “Dealing the Dead,” a series investigating the use of unclaimed bodies for medical research.Every day for two seemingly endless months, Arelis Coromoto Villegas repeated the