The ISIS Sex Slave Market
For the Yazidi people of Iraq, Thursday marked a particularly horrifying day. On October 8th, ISIS fighters participated in the female sex slave market, where Yazidi girls were the prize item.
Read MoreThe Winkelvosses’ Bitcoin Scheme
In one memorable scene of The Social Network, Mark Zuckerberg and then-co-worker Sean Parker discuss the low moments in their lives that motivated them to succeed in the tech world. Today, Cameron and Tyler Winkelvoss, who experienced a low moment of their own when Zuckerberg’s Facebook outdid their efforts to create an online social network, are laying claim to a comeback tale of their own in the form of bitcoin, a controversial digital currency.
Read MoreThe Shadow Economy of Compliance
I have a big backlog of emails from the college saying things like “change your email password,” and “take this sexual assault training course,” and “you have five days to find that anteater a new home, because it can’t live in your dorm room.”
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