Angry Coinbase users sue over claimed security failings, insider trading

Enlarge / A visual representation of bitcoin is displayed in front of the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange website on February 12, 2018 in Paris. (credit: Chesnot / Getty Images) In recent weeks, Coinbase has been hit with three federal lawsuits, alleging various types of wrongdoing ranging from security negligence to wrongfully keeping bitcoins to insider trading […]

The Reaction to Hillary Clinton’s Prison Labor Usage Illustrates the Failings of Politics as Fandom

Not a day goes by without some sort of Twitter controversy/shitfight any more, and while that very fact probably means that most of these 140-character slanging matches aren’t worth covering, they can occasionally illustrate a wider point that is worth discussing. So it goes with the argument that erupted earlier this week about Hillary (and […]

One teenager in Iowa that costs $12 million a year to insure perfectly encapsulates the successes and failings of Obamacare

Reuters/Jason Reed Over the past couple of years there has been a mystery in the Iowa individual insurance market. According to Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer Wellmark, there was a patient in the state’s Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, exchanges that required $ 1 million a month in care. This staggering $ 12 million in […]