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Under the legislation, the payments must be distributed by this Friday, January 15. While the IRS said last week that two-thirds of eligible payments have already been sent out, technical glitches and distribution errors have caused delays for many Americans. Some may eventually receive their payment via direct deposit, or in the mail through a debit card or paper check, but many other eligible taxpayers may be forced to claim their payment as a credit on their 2020 tax forms in order to receive the cash. … [Read more...] about IRS stimulus check update: What to know about mailed payments and the Friday deadline

About nine hours before the interview was posted, Yang retweeted Joe Biden’s tweet about how tight finances are for some Americans right now: “$600 is simply not enough when you have to choose between paying rent or putting food on the table. We need $2,000 stimulus checks.” … [Read more...] about Why aspiring NYC mayor Andrew Yang upset New Yorkers with his quip about working from home

As a team, we have a shared dissatisfaction for how most agencies choose to work. Despite selling creativity, many behave in the exact opposite way and the most conservative department is often the creative department. We believe that most “people” businesses are actually “talent” businesses and conventional pyramidal structures squash and stifle this talent. This makes them slower, less innovative and ultimately frustrating places to work. In 2009, we set about turning this pyramid upside down, re-framing the role of management as coaches and cultural guardians. … [Read more...] about 10 Ways To Create An Open Culture

Luckily, expectations were low–after all, this is the crew that once had a monkey paint one of its covers. Semi-legitimized with an introduction by Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report writer Eric Drysdale, the book came together in a whopping three months last spring, with Ficarra, art director Sam Viviano, and book designer Patricia Dwyer helming Mad‘s Usual Gang of Idiots. Together, they culled 26,000 magazine pages into the book’s 256. It includes more than 500 covers, the names of everyone who ever contributed to Mad (mainly so they would buy the book), and essays addressing Mad lore: Who was Bill Gaines? Who is Alfred E. Neuman? What were the Mad editorial trips like? Has Mad ever been sued? What’s Mad been like post-Bill Gaines? … [Read more...] about The Ascent Of “Mad”: See 60 Years Of Comic Subversion

Feigning a lack of awareness, in some situations, is perfectly harmless: sarcasm, for instance, or professional acting. It’s fine to pretend not to know certain letters of the alphabet and give one’s toddler nephew a little ego boost. When a friend is clearly delighted to share some juicy nugget of gossip that’s actually more of an open secret, it’s only polite to pretend to be surprised. … [Read more...] about The dire consequences of Republicans ‘just asking questions’ about whatever doesn’t go their way