Silicon Valley fixture John Donahoe was supposed to transform the sneaker giant into a money-minting, high-tech juggernaut. Instead, it’s in crisis mode. By Kim Bhasin and Lily Meier 

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Tyler Tech dominates America’s software industry for local governments, for better and worse. By Austin Carr

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What the former president's return might mean for business, the economy and the world order. By Nancy Cook, Joshua Green and Mario Parker

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Parents for Peace enlists ex-believers to help families win back loved ones drawn to Islamism, QAnon, and other ideologies. Demand has never been higher. By David Yaffe-Bellany and Sophia Cai

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A wild search for the billions of U.S. dollars supposedly backing Tether, the world’s most popular stablecoin. By Zeke Faux

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Insider trading allows the well-connected to profit from privileged information. Technically, it's illegal—but only technically. By Liam Vaughan

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As developer Evergrande faces a debt crunch, China tries to depend less on real estate. By Bloomberg News

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Permissive laws have created a booming market for fossils. Paleontologists aren’t thrilled, but for Clayton Phipps and his peers, it’s a living. By Andrew Zaleski

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When Donald Trump called for a big, beautiful wall, a guy from North Dakota named Tommy Fisher spent millions to build a 3-mile stretch along the Rio Grande. All Fisher needs now is for someone to buy it back. By Simon V.Z. Wood

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Microsoft operates a sort of digital bank, which handles millions, if not billions, of dollars each year. One of the company’s junior engineers figured out how to rob it. By Austin Carr

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To millions of fans, Ramon Abbas was a self-made influencer synonymous with luxury. To the FBI, he was the man behind scams hoping to net hundreds of millions of dollars. By Evan Ratliff

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is indicating he wants to change his ways. Let’s see. By Erik Schatzker

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The untold story of the Ever Given crisis. By Kit Chellel, Matthew Campbell, and K. Oanh Ha

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Jeff Yass built Susquehanna into one of Wall Street’s most powerful trading firms. He’s also the libertarian billionaire enmeshed with TikTok—and betting on Trump.  
By Annie Massa

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When violent crimes happen during stays, the company’s secretive safety team is called on to soothe guests, help families—and prevent PR disasters. By Olivia Carville

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The former president’s strategic retreat to Mar-a-Lago has helped turn Florida into a new home base for Republicans. By Joshua Green

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A few months of poor performance haven’t shaken the superstar fund manager’s faith in a future where technology makes everything better and her investors get very rich. By Ben Steverman, Claire Ballentine & Annie Massa

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A trawl through 30 years of data traces the evolution of superstar firms, a difficult-to-tame species. By Tom Orlik, Justin Jimenez, and Cedric Sam

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Chamath Palihapitiya—tech billionaire, Golden State Warriors co-owner, and all-around meme lord—has a sure-thing, 100%-can’t-miss

investment for you that will definitely, absolutely pay off for him. By Zeke Faux

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The RV business is booming and shows no sign of slowing down. To find out why, our correspondent dragged his reluctant family to the RV capital of the world—the cutest city in north central Indiana!—and hit the road. By Patrick Clark

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David Neeleman, airline savant (think JetBlue) and perpetual optimist, is at it again with a new budget carrier called Breeze. By Drake Bennett

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Is the app that brought zero-commission trades and a mobile-first design to millions of investors too good at what it does? By Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou, Annie Massa, and Anders Melin

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A December suicide sparked concern by employee representatives about the risk of more deaths. The bank says it’s focused on well-being. By Stephanie Bodoni and Gavin French

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Selling its Alaskan oil business last year was a green win for BP. But not for the planet. By Rachel Adams-Heard

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His company, LVMH, bought up many of the world’s major luxury brands. And he’s not finished shopping. By Brad Stone and Angelina Rascouet

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While Amazon and its peers have stopped supporting certain prominent White supremacists and conspiracy theorists, Nick Lim has stepped in. By William Turton and Joshua Brustein

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The fast rise and even faster fall of a trader who bet big with borrowed money. By Erik Schatzker,

Sridhar Natarajan, and Katherine Burton

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How Oxford and AstraZeneca's low-cost, not-for-profit Covid vaccine went from hope too hesitancy. By Stephanie Baker and Suzi Ring

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Companies and countries that depend on travel or large gatherings are counting on a totally unproven concept. By Christopher Jasper, Angus Whitley, and Eleni Chrepa

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Vaccines are great and all, but molnupiravir, an antiviral drug in late-stage trials, could give doctors another major tool to end the pandemic—if, of course, it proves safe and effective. By Cynthia Koons and Riley Griffin

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The government gave Puritan $250 million to make more Covid swabs. That doesn’t mean the guys in charge stopped fighting. By Olivia Carville

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Dorothy Brown has spent her career documenting racism in a tax system that’s supposedly colorblind. By Ben Steverman

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How an unfair property-tax system blocks the building of Black wealth. By Jason Grotto

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Pfizer deserves every bit of the credit it’s receiving. But should a drug company decide who gets a shot? By Stephanie Baker, Cynthia Koons, and Vernon Silver

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Young resellers are wringing profits out of everything from the latest Yeezys to outlet-store leftovers—and turning sneakers into a bona fide asset class. By Joshua Hunt

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Nickel is pouring into the EV supply chain from an Indonesian industrial park with a history of fatal accidents. By Matthew Campbell and Annie Lee

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Beverley Schottenstein said two grandsons who managed her money at JPMorgan forged documents, ran up commissions with inappropriate trading and made her miss tens of millions of dollars in gains. So she decided to teach them all a lesson. By Tom Schoenberg

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Trade war? Pfft. Trump? Please. Antitrust? Zuck’s problem. (Ditto privacy.) Revenue? Endless. By Austin Carr and Mark Gurman

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The fight against Covid isn’t over, but we’re already learning lessons for the next epidemiological crisis—and the one after that. By Robert Langreth

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Laugh at him. Shun his business, Sue him. The Pillow King won't stop his bizarre quest to prove Donald Trump was cheated. Josh Dean

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His body wrecked by ALS, my father insisted that his death, like his life, was his to control. By Esmé E. Deprez

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But the world still needs a shot in the arm. By Peter Coy

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Elon Musk’s company got unprecedented help from Beijing. What happens once Tesla has served the state’s purpose.

By Matthew Campbell, with Chunying Zhang, Haze Fan, David Stringer, and Emma O’Brien

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After the coronavirus hit the cruise industry and guests were sent home, the ships floated on, as employees struggled to cope with a monthslong lockdown. They didn’t all make it. By Austin Carr

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With a big hand from the government, pharmaceutical companies delivered the vaccine that the world desperately needed. Here’s how something in 2020 went right for a change. By Drew Armstrong

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The pandemic has meant that white-collar workers can suddenly live anywhere. That will have implications for pay—how does a 20% salary cut sound?—and could reshape the U.S. By Noah Buhayar

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After duds and missteps, the animation studio is looking to Inside Out 2 to help it 
recapture the magic. By Thomas Buckley

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Open the windows. Stop the obsessive sanitizing. Spread some good germs around. a building, Like a person, is only as healthy as its microbiome, By Caroline Winter

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As other nations locked down or let the coronavirus run rampant, South Korea found a middle way—and a road map for future pandemics.

By Matthew Campbell and Heesu Lee

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The sanitizer maker is churning out more product than ever before. But with a pandemic winter on the way, that's still not enough. By Drew Armstrong

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