He never saw it coming.

How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine.

The company has been battling its store owners for years, using tactics that include planting hidden cameras and and tailing franchisees in unmarked vehicles. It seems to have found a new tool: U.S. immigration authorities.

An electrician’s odd plot to make $607,933.50.

Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.

“All human relations are a matter of record, ready to be revealed by a clever algorithm. Everyone is a spidergram now.”

The true believers won’t stop until they’ve remade the world.

Taurus sold almost a million handguns that can potentially fire without anyone pulling the trigger. The government won’t fix the problem. The NRA is silent.

The lives of programmers sent abroad by Pyongyang to make money by any means necessary.

Inside the boardroom as Uber’s press nightmare unfolded.

Inside the empire of Botox.

With The Apprentice, Trump rose to a level of popularity with minorities that the GOP could only dream of. Then he torched it all to prepare for a hard-right run at the presidency.

Olathe, Kansas, became a global magnet for tech talent, thanks to plentiful jobs, cheap housing, and good schools. Then someone opened fire on a pair of Indian-born engineers.

Inside a megachurch started by Procter & Gamble brand managers.

In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.

Cheap wages, little training, and crushed limbs.

Thomas Hargrove is building software to identify trends in unsolved murders that can detect serial killers that police never knew existed.

It took Nav Sarao a long time to accept that he might have been scammed out of $50 million.

How the veterinary industry went corporate.

A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.

Project Alamo, Trump’s digital marketing and media operation, is building a base for his post-election future.

With Just Mayo, Josh Tetrick wanted to build the first sustainable-food unicorn. He’ll need to fend off the feds first.

Uncovering Baltimore’s secret aerial surveillance program.

How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections across Latin America.

Making bio-diesel is hard. Getting paid $100 million to not make it is surprisingly easy.