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.

How New York real estate became the new Swiss bank account.

What happens after your goofy little company gets swallowed by Amazon.

The postscript of a viral hit.

The “subtly radical” open-source plant movement.

Courtland Kelley knew there was a problem more than a decade ago. He tried to speak up. He sued. He lost.

Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.

What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.

What the neighborhood of Higher Blackley in Manchester says about “one of the least understood and most discriminated-against groups in society.”

How the island paradise of Seychelles became a magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers.

Britney Spears works Vegas, bitch.

The fall of billionaire Henry Nicholas, co-founder and CEO of microchip-maker Broadcom, who lost his job and his marriage amidst allegations of drug use, cooking the books, and building a secret party lair beneath the house he shared with family.

Inside the split of the Hoefler/Frere-Jones typography team.

The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.

A profile of Sophia Amoruso, the 30-year-old CEO of Nasty Gal and author of #GIRLBOSS.

Tereza Sedgwick trains to become a nurse aid, the fastest-growing job in America. It pays just better than minimum wage and has one of the highest burnout rates of any career.

The laundry wars of Silicon Valley.

On the urge to live in a house you can't afford, the "acceptable lust" of American life.

A pastor-turned-banker fakes his own death after allegedly embezzling millions and defrauding investors.

The hedge funders who tried to give away a fortune anonymously.

The controversy-filled world of shipping pallets.

A profile of the Los Angeles Clippers owner, an oft-sued real estate baron with a documented racist streak and a penchant for heckling his own players, on the occasion of him winning an NAACP lifetime achievement award.

How airlines woo the rich.

How the Google co-founder, forced out of a leadership role in 2001, came back to run the company 10 years later.

The dark side of startup life in Silicon Valley.

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