When Carmen Segarra was hired to examine Goldman Sachs for the New York Fed, she bought a small recorder and began taping her meetings. Here is what she found before she was fired.

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.