An animated sequel fizzles where it doesn’t actively offend
There isn’t a show out right now that’s more offensive than Good Times: Black Again — Netflix’s new animated series reboot of the 1970s classic sitcom Good Times — and that’s saying a lot considering Zeus Network is still actively in business and cranking out almost exclusively aggressive and exploitative content, like the reality TV franchise Baddies. After the Good Times reboot trailer dropped, immediate backlash ensued. If the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) was any indication, most...
Thanks to a strong stock market and record home prices, asset owners are feeling richer, even if it’s only on paper. Today, we get into the “wealth effect” and how it may play out in the presidential election. Also: Higher prices slow Procter & Gamble sales, the “catastrophic” halt to a Baltimore port business, and why companies change the metrics they report to investors.
This article was produced by The Bittman Project and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. which supports independent journalists as they forward fresh narratives about inequality. It is co-published here with permission. EHRP’s high-quality journalism is co-published with mainstream media outlets, to help readers understand and address systemic hardship. Cooking and food shopping are very different in America […]
While you’re decluttering your home for spring, consider also taking a crack at cleaning up your finances and old paperwork.
In all of physics, some of the most important properties inherent to the Universe itself are constants of nature. The speed of light in a vacuum, the strength of the gravitational force between two masses, and the constant inherent to the quantum nature of the Universe, Planck’s constant, are all examples of fundamental parameters that never change, regardless of circumstances. But it’s also plausible that some of the so-called constants aren’t exactly constant, but vary either across space or...
Kate Barton explained how uplifting employees has helped The Honest Company through a time of upheaval. Last week at the Fairmont Millennium Park in Chicago, hundreds of comms pros from across the country and the world gathered to hear from the sharpest and most innovative minds in the field during Ragan’s annual Employee Communications and […]
A girl signs up for a class. A couple hires an accountant. A group of co-workers decides to pool their money and buy a couple of lottery tickets. In the beginning, they're full of hope and optimism — and then something turns. Stories of good ideas gone bad. Prologue: Paul was a cop. One night he was pulling second shift when he had a perfectly good idea: He'd stretch out in the back seat and take a little nap during his break. He fell right asleep, and slept well until he woke up and realized...
Gen Z is supposed to go through 18 jobs in their lifetime, luckily Millennial managers in the workforce are making our lives easier.
When starter Joe Boyle made his MLB debut last season with the Oakland A's,
Friday’s rainy and blustery weather will abate somewhat, weather bureau Weeronline said, and Saturday will be a mixed bag of sunshine, showers and wind. It will, however, be cold for the time of year, with a temperature of just 7° in the morning and reaching no more than 10° later in the day. Sunday will be more of the same with showers particularly in the north and south of the country. The sun will show its face more often, and
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Sunday evening that it was time for "regime change" in Iran, due to the threat that the Iranian government posed to the Middle East and the world.