Last Fall, America’s favorite focus drug suddenly went into short supply.

Dotcom didn’t look like a criminal genius. With his ginger hair, chubby cheeks, and odd fashion sense—he often wore black suits and white-on-black wingtip shoes—he looked like he should be setting up a magic table.

How Kim Schmitz, the proprietor of Megaupload, made his fortune and landed in a New Zealand prison.

Inside the world of targeted marketing.

An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.

How an industry that couldn’t miss did just that.

Inside the attempt to turn a World War II-era antiaircraft deck (that its owner claims is an independent nation) into “the world’s first truly offshore, almost-anything-goes electronic data haven.”

On Manoj Bhargava, who says he’s “probably the wealthiest Indian in America,” and his ubiquitous product.

The rise and fall of the Internet mogul.

Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.

The F.B.I. needs informants, but what happens when they go too far?

How a drug store conquered New York.

“We’re trying really hard to make things better,” said one former Apple executive. “But most people would still be really disturbed if they saw where their iPhone comes from.”

Previously: “Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class“