Tag: failures

‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Plot Follows Tired Modern Trend of Turning Popular Male Heroes into Washed-Up Failures

Unlike most Disney-Marvel films produced today, the upcoming “Deadpool & Wolverine” has many fans genuinely excited. The teaming up of two iconic characters brought to life by generation-defining acting talent — Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as the titular heroes — may finally bring the Marvel Cinematic Unvierse back into relevance… at least for a […]

Republican Response to Biden State of the Union, Policy Failures

In the official Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt highlighted several of the Biden administration’s failings—most notably, its handling of the southern border, which she called “a disgrace.” The Alabama senator declared, “Biden didn’t just create this border crisis, he invited it with 94 executive […]

6 Big Failures of Biden’s Presidency

The state of the union is feeble. That’s what many Americans believe as President Joe Biden is set to make his fourth, and perhaps final, State of the Union address Thursday evening. Regardless of what he says in the speech, the reality of Biden’s tenure is that the American people are not only uneasy but […]

Prison deaths report finds widespread missteps, failures in latest sign of crisis in federal prisons

WASHINGTON — The kind of systemic failures that enabled the high-profile prison deaths of notorious gangster Whitey Bulger and financier Jeffrey Epstein also contributed to the deaths of hundreds of other federal prisoners over the years, a watchdog report released Thursday found. Mental health care, emergency responses and the detection of contraband drugs and weapons […]

2023’s 10 Biggest Box Office Failures

For Hollywood, 2023 wasn’t just a bad year — it was a disastrous one. Since the COVID pandemic blocked theater-goers across the world from going out to see their movies, studios have had a hard time convincing audiences to come back. But we know now that COVID  isn’t the only factor to blame for poor-performing […]

The police response to the Uvalde shooting was riddled with failures, a new DOJ report says

Police officials who responded to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting waited far too long to confront the gunman, acted with “no urgency” in establishing a command post and communicated inaccurate information to grieving families, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday that identifies “cascading failures” in law enforcement’s handling of the massacre. […]