That there’s a sucker born every minute is something Americans learn at their mother’s knee. Lesson 2 is about the cupidity of Congress. Lesson 3: If there’s government money available for something good, someone will find a way to rip it off. “Fail State,” an alternately appalling, dispiriting and infuriating documentary about the scandal of for-profit colleges, is about all of the above—people falling for scams, the scam artists being abetted by elected officials, and many of the shenanigans being financed by public money....

Source: Wall Street Journal December 14, 2018 23:15 UTC