Not only is the penny useless, it costs the U.S. Treasury $50 million per year. So why is it still around?

In an elaborate FBI sting to expose corruption, four agents pose as futures traders in Chicago. The plan works–if you don’t count the hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars the agents lost in the process.

A mid-boom critique of New York City’s high-priced, mostly glass condo buildings.

The rise and fall of Suck.com, the web’s first daily-updated site.

Google’s founders and CEO as they moved from the search business into… everything.

Raffaello Follieri was young, handsome. He was Italian. He was dating Anne Hathaway, hobnobbing with Bill Clinton, and using contacts at the Vatican to launch a lucrative business in the States. Then he was in jail.

A 2006 profile of Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook opened from a college-only site to a public social network.

Movies about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have failed to connect with viewers, but video games on the topic have broken sales records.

A just-barred Pakistani-American attorney attempts to save a young family’s home from foreclosure and glimpses the contradiction-rich bureaucracy that has emerged in response to the housing crisis.

A series on the growing income inequality gap in America.

The author joins his father’s work crew, gutting out foreclosed houses in Florida and interviewing their former residents.

Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.