The Hells Angels' devilish business (Fortune, 1992)

Editor's note: Every week, Fortune publishes a story from our magazine archives. On Tuesday, December 4, the fifth season finale of the FX drama Sons of Anarchy airs. The show follows a biker gang in Northern California. Back in 1992, Fortune's Andy Serwer looked at the business dealings of the Hells Angels, and the descriptions below read as if they're ripped from a Sons of Anarchy script.

Americans are giving diesels a second look

After years of trying, automakers are again taking a stab at selling diesel-powered cars in North America.

By Doron Levin, contributor

FORTUNE -- Mazda grabbed a moment in the spotlight by announcing this week that it's importing a diesel-powered Mazda6 sedan next year to the U.S. -- a rare move for an Asian automaker in a land where diesel-powered cars occupy a tiny niche.

Next year is also the projected date for General MORE

Leadership lessons from Thomas Jefferson

In a new biography, Jon Meacham shows how modern politicians can learn a lot from our nation's third president.

By David Whitford editor-at-large

FORTUNE -- Thomas Jefferson, Jon Meacham writes, "is the founding president who charms us most." Not just us. He charmed his contemporaries, too, and not only but definitely also the ladies. One of my favorite stories in Meacham's masterful and intimate new biography, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of MORE

Inside the highest hotel in the world

The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong has the distinction of being the highest hotel in the world.

By Jennifer Abbasi, contributor

FORTUNE -- Last week, news broke that construction on the new tallest building in the world begins this month in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, China. If the reports bear out, the proposed Sky City will rise to a height of 2,749 feet, besting the record-holding Burj Khalifa in Dubai by a MORE

Lion of American labor: A final conversation with Marvin Miller

Marvin Miller, baseball legend and renowned labor organizer, died Tuesday. In his last in-depth interview, Miller spoke to Fortune last month about everything from steroids to Bud Selig to his legacy.

By David A. Kaplan

FORTUNE -- For professional baseball players, Marvin Miller—who died Tuesday morning at 95—was Moses, the leader who brought them to the Promised Land and with it millions of dollars in fair-market wages for their preternatural skills. But MORE

Torn apart after Sandy, the Seaport community comes together

The second installment of Fortune's #SaveTheSeaport series looks at the changing marketplace in South Street Seaport post-Sandy.

By Ryan Bradley, senior editor

FORTUNE -- From the beginning, in 1642, the market was the center of things—the feature that tied South Street Seaport together and gave it purpose. Produce, meat and dairy from Brooklyn farms came in across the East River on the Fulton Ferry, and around the landing grew a neighborhood MORE