President Donald Trump’s haters have spent a decade accusing him of being a fascist. Yet, his plan to unilaterally extract a 10% equity stake in moribund chipmaker Intel is now about as close to that notion as anything he has tried during his two White House terms. The White House has defended the unprecedented move, […]

I could fill a whole article with stories. The time a manager locked the front door at a sprint lest a tour bus swamp us a minute before closing. The time a young black co-worker startled everyone by refusing to “wait on [her] own kind.” The time I stole a sausage patty from a customer’s […]

Unless you are a major Sinophile or one of those wayward souls who monitor box office receipts like day traders monitor the Japanese futures market (ahem), you likely haven’t heard of the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Ne Zha 2, an animated partial retelling of the 16th-century Chinese folk novel Investiture of the Gods, […]

John Grisham’s The Rainmaker started life as a novel (1995), became a film by Francis Ford Coppola (1997), and is now a television series on USA and Peacock. Somewhere, creative teams are readying a rock opera and a Saturday morning cartoon.  The new show is better described as an homage to the book and movie […]