How a creator of Assassin’s Creed sold investors on a magic marijuana product that he claimed could predictably produce specific feelings in users.

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.

Zukle: The old guy, Bob [Polizos]—I like him, he's a nice guy. When were first getting started, he said, "I like competition." And I said, "Good, because you're gonna get it!" People go over there for $5 steak bites, then they come here for a $500 lap dance.
Polizos: I don't want them here. We are a real restaurant. They're nothing but a whorehouse!

The creators of This is Spinal Tap, the most influential mockumentary ever made, have been paid almost nothing. Now they are suing for $400 million.

Horseshoe crab blood is an irreplaceable medical marvel. Which means it’s incredibly valuable. Which means biomedical companies are bleeding 500,000 crabs a year. Nobody knows quite what that means for the crabs.

The author on his relationship with money.

An investigation into “a subtler form of redlining.”

Inside a megachurch started by Procter & Gamble brand managers.

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

Meet the giant green rock that seduces and destroys.

Come to his Dilbert-shaped home. Bite into a Dilberito. Be persuaded on genocide, mental orgasms, and his fellow Master Wizard, the president of the United States.

Cheap wages, little training, and crushed limbs.

Guy Gentile flipped, and flipped again.

“In my view, Trump wouldn’t be president if not for Bob.”

The period underwear giant struggles to live up to its corporate ideals.

“It’s not smoking. It’s platform-agnostic nicotine delivery solutions.”

Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery?

Wags Lending and the brave new world of of financing in “niches where we’re dealing with emotional borrowers.”

Bill Ackman’s hedge fund planned to make a fortune while doing good by exposing Herbalife as a scheme that preyed upon and lied to the poor. How one of the highest profile stock shorts in market history went awry.

On the decades-long quest for a zero-calorie sweetener.

How New York Times is clawing its way into the future:

The main goal is... to transform the Times’ digital subscriptions into the main engine of a billion-dollar business, one that could pay to put reporters on the ground in 174 countries even if (OK, when) the printing presses stop forever. To hit that mark, the Times is embarking on an ambitious plan inspired by the strategies of Netflix, Spotify, and HBO: invest heavily in a core offering... while continuously adding new online services and features... so that a subscription becomes indispensable to the lives of its existing subscribers and more attractive to future ones.

LaGuardia and the failure of the American air terminal.

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

Trump’s Commerce pick and a government by, and for, the super-rich.

Franklin Leonard’s anonymous survey has launched careers, recognized four of the past eight Best Picture winners, and pushed movie studios to think beyond sequels and action flicks.