A profile of the reclusive billionaire who orchestrated a collectible toy craze.

An interview with Barry Diller about Aereo and the past, present and future of TV.

Previously: Vanessa Grigoriadis on the Longform Podcast.

On the fast food workers of St. Louis.

Shai Agassi had nearly $1 billion in funding and a dream to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars. All he was missing was a plan.

Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.

At the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha.

How Brad Katsuyama, a trader at the sleepy Royal Bank of Canada, discovered that the stock market was rigged and assembled a team to change it.

Adapted from Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt.

On (not) getting by in the gig economy.

In Harpersville, Alabama, a traffic violation can lead to months in jail and a never-ending stint in a work-release program – what some refer to as a modern-day debtors’ prison.

A story of boom and bust.

Notes from a month-long voyage on a massive container ship.

Despite its association with piracy, BitTorrent is a company in its own right, and one desperate to hit upon a way to monetize its revolutionary file transfer technology.

A profile of Alan Adler, the guy behind the Aerobie and the beloved AeroPress.

How a top law firm destroyed itself.

The author gets a crash course in health care pricing after having his urethra fixed.

Inside the lucrative — and illegal — business of elephant tusk trafficking.

The dissolution of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng’s marriage amidst evidence of her affairs with Tony Blair and Eric Schmidt.

The first known infiltration of the finance fraternity Kappa Beta Phi.

Excerpted from Young Money.

How a disgraced principal-turned real estate mogul helped cause the global financial crisis.

“An Indian farmer has committed suicide every half hour since 2001.”

The rise and fall of a teen fashion empire.

How a small team of 20-somethings helped spark a $50 billion turnaround.

On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.

On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.

How “Do What You Love” devalues actual work.