China is securing sub-Saharan Africa’s natural resources at a staggering rate. With the buying spree comes contracts, workers, and of course, politics. (Part 1 of a 6 part series, rest here)

Paul Phua rose from a Borneo numbers runner to being the biggest bookmaker in the world. Then he found poker.

On the world’s biggest polluter.

The CIA’s declassified account of the two decades two young officers spent as captives after being shot down over China during the Korean War.

David Johnson’s unrequited correspondence with Jay-Z.

Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking.

Forty-five days of avoiding the coronavirus.

The paper reports on a battle of its own.

While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China’s manufacturers.

How Wall Street won.

The little-understood history of the whales and how barnacles may be the key to understanding how giant mammals evolved underwater.

An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown.

How the social networks that popped up in Facebook’s absence—the site is not available behind the Great Firewall—are changing Chinese culture.

As labels big and small attempt to gain traction in the world’s largest market, they’re learning that selling pop is never simple in the epicenter of piracy.

How $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewelry disappeared from Antwerp Diamond Center’s super-secure vault.

Carbanak’s suspected ringleader is under arrest, but $1.2 billion remains missing, and his malware attacks live on.

Most of the men were in their 60s and 70s, with heart conditions, diabetes, and replacement hips. They made off with millions in cash and jewels, only to give themselves up by not understanding how technology works.

“As a young reporter in Eastern Europe in 2001, I expected to witness the ‘end of history’ and the flowering of democracy. That was just one of the mistakes I made.”

A profile of the policy wonk who shone the light and turned the tide on overseas tax havens.

Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.

A profile of jailed trader Tom Hayes, who was either behind the Libor scandal or became its fall guy.

Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.

How a Canadian used a Mohawk reservation’s lakes to smuggle tons of marijuana to stash houses in Brooklyn and Staten Island, resulting in nearly a billion in profits, which he laundered through the Sinaloa Cartel.

“None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It’s truly crazy.”

“We’re trying really hard to make things better,” said one former Apple executive. “But most people would still be really disturbed if they saw where their iPhone comes from.”

Previously: “Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class”