How the tech billionaire came to own 87,000 acres, three hotels, a wastewater treatment plant, a cemetery and 380 cats.

An investigation into who knew what, and when.

Why America, and every other street in Massachusetts, runs (or will eventually run) on Dunkin’.

A profile of the highest-paid female executive in America, who was born male.

Tony Ma will bet you as much as $600,000 to train your student for college acceptance. If the student gets into their top choice school, Ma takes the cash. Rejected? He gets nothing.

A Texas border town fails to keep up.

The aging action star’s second wind abroad: political maneuvering, many guns and, most importantly, a market for his B movies.

Established media companies used to sue YouTube. Now they’re betting on it.

The anatomy of a collapse.

The Wall Street firm that bailed out Robert Mugabe.

How to understand the real-world value of things that are worth nothing and everything at once.

On Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Flickr and now Slack, a wildly popular, difficult-to-describe messaging service that has 38,000 paying subscribers just a few months after launching.

Partying with a lost tycoon on his birthday.

How Gary Gygax, a semi-employed shoe repairman, built and lost the Dungeons & Dragons empire.

Exploring the depths of the abalone black market.

The CEO is 32. The CFO is 28. Their startup is the second-largest burger chain in the country.

A tenth of Kannapolis, North Carolina, residents were laid off after the local textile mill closed. A billionaire bought the mill and turned it into a mecca for biotechnology and life sciences research. Now many residents are human research subjects.

Living the Amway life.

On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.

Following a lobster from sea to table.

On Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson, two anarchists with a history of creating controversial software, and their dream of an economy based on untraceable, uncontrollable money.

Dov Charney’s struggle to keep control of American Apparel.

The 50,000-word story of Microsoft’s antitrust case.

Tom Monaghan started Domino’s. Mike Ilitch started Little Caesers. Both became billionaires, both live in Detroit, both are now over 75. They’ve made very different decisions about how to spend their fortunes.