Monaco’s richest woman was shot in ambush outside a hospital. Her heirs stand to inherit over a billion dollars each.

In the 1970s, Chile was on the verge of developing sophisticated technology to monitor its economy. Then America intervened.

Thousands of new warehouse jobs were supposed to help lift a struggling British economy. Instead, employees started equating the work with “being in a slave camp.”

Groupon disasters, the behaviors of the consumer swarm, and how the “1% and the 90% [are] collaborating to prey on the 9% in the middle.”

On the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, who “created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality.”

After his father died in an Airbnb rental, the writer investigates what the company can do to improve safety.

What it means to be an entrepreneur in Argentina, where economic crashes are a way of life.

When the greatest players in the world go head-to-head, things can get downright angsty.

A portrait of three high school kids in Arizona forced to live on their own after SB 1070.

How prison changed the mother and militant who was sentenced to 75 years for her role in a deadly 1981 Brinks truck heist.

A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.

A Georgia chicken farmer hoped to find financial independence in ethical foie gras. Things got weird.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.

How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.

The Obama administration was supposed to fight corporate concentration. In the airline industry, at least, it didn’t work out that way.

“We have a lot in common. We go to the same shrink.”

What it takes to be the best alpine skier in the world.