How Goldman Sachs made $5 billion by controlling supply and manipulating the aluminum market.

"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z."

During New York’s ’80s and ’90s crack epedemic, a flashy detective who “imagined himself a crusader who created his own rules” and his star witness, a crack addicted prostitute who seemed to constantly be at the scene of homicides, sent dozens of men to prison for life. Now, they are under investigation.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.

The origin story of the C.I.A.’s covert drone war, which began with the 2004 killing of a Pashtun militant, the result of a secret deal for access to Pakistani airspace.

The story of Tim Danielson, one of America’s top high school distance runners, who went on to murder his ex-wife.

On the legal and practical details of the drone strikes that killed New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki and later, accidentally, his sixteen-year-old Colorado-born son.

The people behind the search for the “God particle.”

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.

The enduring disadvantage of getting locked up.

“‘If there’s anything I can do to make your trip more enjoyable, let me know.” He walked away, then he strode back to Cree 15 seconds later and whispered, making eye contact, “Anything.’”

A profile of former Duke basketball star Jay Williams a decade after the motorcycle crash that ended his career.

An obituary.

The paper reports on a battle of its own.

After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.

How John Kiriakou, a public opponent of US torture policy, became the first CIA officer convicted of leaking classified information to the press.

The story of three friends from Texas and the obstacles they face trying to get a college degree in an age of economic inequality.

A rape case in which most of the evidence lies in the archives of Twitter and Instagram divides a football-crazed town of 18,400.

A nationally respected neurologist feeds secrets to Wall Street.

A prolific fundraiser and dean at St. John’s University, Cecilia Chang was also accused of murdering her husband and had connections to organized crime. Two days after she was convicted of stealing more than $1 million from the schoool, she took her own life.

The human lives lost in exchange for cheaper goods.

“Suddenly, he had to ask for help with buttons, zippers and shoelaces. And he loathes asking for help.”