Best of 2012: Business
Cocaine Incorporated
How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class
How the U.S. lost out on iPhone work.
Genius: The Nickelback Story
How a loathsome band makes gobs of money.
Ben Paynter Businessweek 10min
I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
Reporting undercover from inside the online-shipping industry.
Mac McCelland Mother Jones 30min
Life of a Salesman
Frank Firetti, a 54-year-old pool salesman in Virginia, and his fading American dream.
Eli Saslow Washington Post 25min