A portrait of the Somali capital.

Tracing a secretive cyber-war’s battles and casualties.

“Some companies are beginning to allow women to take their management-training courses. A woman sitting in on an executive conference is less of a shock to the male than she was only a few years ago. A few big companies–R.C.A., the Home Life Insurance Co., and the New York Central, for example–have even ushered women into the board room.”

The story of a tobacco industry whistleblower.

Inside Brigham Young University’s successful animation program.

A profile of legendary L.A. crack dealer Freeway Rick Ross, now out of jail and trying to sell everything from weaves to his own biopic, written by a journalist who has known him for decades.

On the blurry ethical lines in the part-time Texas state legislature, where politicians and CEO’s are one and the same.

How Wall Street won.

How the former CEO of McKinsey, who was indicted in the largest insider trading case in United States history, got played.

Caterpillar’s CEO made $22 million last year. Some of his employees are on food stamps.

Inside New England’s thriving arms industry.

An investigation into widespread criminal fraud at a generic drug company.

Rethinking mobile homes as senior housing.

In Cyprus with those who lost big by simply depositing their savings with Laiki.

Adventures in the cosmetics department of a Neiman Marcus in Dallas.

A financier and his wife build a mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a mystery: Did John Felix Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their crumbling dream?

A profile of the almost-president.

How companies and large temp agencies benefit from—and tacitly collaborate with—an underworld of labor brokers, known as “raiteros,” who charge workers fees, pushing their pay below minimum wage.

Creation of a fast food phenomenon.

Libor, ISDAfix, and how the big banks do business.

“Which is the largest country in the world, economically speaking? It’s America, the United States. Do you know why? Because way back—this is history, you can look it up on the Internet—the colonization was done by men who believed in the word of God. And they were tithers. That’s why you see on the dollar bill: ‘In God we trust.”

A profile of Alexey Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption crusader.

Aside from the wealthiest players, nine out of 10 NFL athletes are likely to be insolvent within 10 years of retirement. A new executive MBA program aims to change that.

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling needed funding for his ambitious video-game startup. Rhode Island politicians needed jobs and a vision for how to transform the state’s beleaguered economy. The story of a $75 million bet gone bust.

The growth of an immersive universe that is “part game and part soap opera and part shadow economy.”