“It’s basically bankruptcy for profit.”

They had $19 million, a deal with Disney, and dreams of becoming the next Ben & Jerry’s. Then everything fell apart.

Orthopedic surgery would have bankrupted us in the United States. So we went to Mexico instead.

Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.

How did a tenure-track professor wind up selling his plasma? A story about debt.

On the ground at the big, sad, strange Burt Reynolds memorabilia auction in Las Vegas.

“He has hit rock bottom, and he just hasn’t accepted it yet.” Basketball’s iconoclast is a broke recluse at 37.

A fiction writer buys and loses a house in Oakland.

Terrell ‘T.O’ Owens is 38, currently unemployed, nearly bankrupt after losing his shirt in a electronic-bingo entertainment complex development plan gone bust, father of four children (one of which he has never met), and bowls frequently.

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