By: Steve Cohen, Source: Forbes, Originally Published: 3.2.15 “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” -Verbal (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects The second greatest trick may be the insurance industry’s success in getting more than half the states to implement “tort reform.” That achievement was based on

I’ll never forget the all-consuming pain of hearing my twin brother had been killed. Now the Umpqua Community College victims’ loved ones are feeling that same pain. This has to stop. By: Goldie Taylor, Source: The Daily Beast. It was supposed to be a party. There was BBQ, bowls of chips, and coolers of beer.

By: Charles Fleming, Source: LA Times, Originally Published: 6.20.15 Bob Weber had a small but simple plan. He wanted to design a safer helmet for dirt bike riders. The Brea-based entrepreneur ended up disrupting the $250-million-a-year motorcycle helmet industry and igniting a debate over head injuries that could have much broader impact.

By: Tim Smith. Source: The State. COLUMBIA, SC: Stanley Brown lay on the ground on a Charleston street for about two minutes following a police chase in 2010 when he felt “something hit me in the back” and he blacked out, he later testified. Police testified an officer had made a “knee strike” aimed at Brown’s

Thanks to Martin Shkreli, life-saving drug Daraprim will now cost $750 per pill—up from $13.50. And no one, not even the FDA, can stop him. Hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli is 32 years old but he’s acting half that age on Twitter today after news broke that his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, had raised the price

By: The Editorial Board, Source: The New York Times, Originally Published: 12.25.14 The United States Supreme Court decides cases involving the nation’s most pressing legal issues, affecting the daily lives of hundreds of millions of Americans — and yet so much about its functioning is shrouded in mystique and exclusivity. The court’s front doors are