Josh

• NEW YORK, March 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against B. Riley Financial, Inc. (“B.
• Faruqi & Faruqi is a leading national securities law firm with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, California and Georgia.
• The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors since its founding in 1995.
• Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP also encourages anyone with information regarding B. Riley’s conduct to contact the firm, including whistleblowers, former employees, shareholders and others.

• NEW YORK, March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential claims against B. Riley Financial, Inc. (“B.
• Faruqi & Faruqi is a leading national securities law firm with offices in New York, Pennsylvania, California and Georgia.
• The firm has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors since its founding in 1995.
• Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP also encourages anyone with information regarding B. Riley’s conduct to contact the firm, including whistleblowers, former employees, shareholders and others.

• JANESVILLE, Wis., Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Layne's Chicken Fingers, the Texas "born and breaded" famous™ chicken franchise with 14 restaurants open across the U.S. and another 118 sold, is coming to Wisconsin.
• Now, it has signed a three-unit deal with Lucas, Josh, and Randy Bergeson and Yodani Hernandez.
• Now, the family business is growing and diversifying further, with a new Layne's Chicken Fingers franchise in Janesville, Wisconsin expected to open spring of 2024, with two more locations coming to Wisconsin in the near future.
• The Wisconsin deal will bring the first locations to Wisconsin with the Bergesons and Hernandez, serving as key players in Layne's continued expansion.

• Or should politics and doing what’s right trump love and happiness?
• These are the questions at the heart of the extraordinary – and controversial – debut novel Everything’s Fine by Cecilia Rabess, a Black woman and former associate at Goldman Sachs.
• Jess, a young, progressive Black woman, and Josh, a white conservative, meet at university – where their political views make them natural opponents, if not enemies.
• But the book begins as their paths cross again: Jess becomes an investment analyst at Goldman Sachs, where Josh’s career is already taking off.

Can love and politics mix?

• Trump’s political trajectory hangs like a Sword of Damocles over Rabess’s novel –and her protagonists’ fragile union.
• The reader knows (but the characters don’t) how it will play out: Trump inexorably building momentum, winning the Republican nomination and ultimately the 2016 election.
• As race and politics come to the cultural forefront, ideological fault lines threaten to tear Jess and Josh apart.
• Rabess’s characters are cleverly crafted to explore the hard questions of love and politics.
• They love each other deeply.

Race, class, gender, politics

• While issues of race and politics build the story’s central point of tension, Rabess enriches the larger picture with intriguing questions of class, wealth, education and gender.
• Here the book’s exploration of politics and relationships takes a subtle turn.
• They share her views on politics and race.
• Here, just as in her love life, Jess must wrestle with how far she should go along to get along.

Not a typical romance

• The book’s early publicity presented it as a steamy romance.
• But the book doesn’t ultimately fit the romance genre.
• Josh is not a typical romantic hero.
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Love in a polarised world

• On the other hand, you might say “no” if you worry about intimate relationships reflecting the corrosion of politics in the wider world.
• Myriad different qualities make up a functioning relationship: love, trust, care, respect, passion, commitment, chemistry, understanding, empathy, shared values.
• There is simply no one-size-fits-all answer to whether love should triumph across political differences.
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Love and argument

• As a fiction writer who’s also written a love story (but not a romance), I admired Rabess’s ability to explore so many complex areas in a single story.
• But as a philosopher who researches the ethics of argument, I was particularly intrigued by the role argument played in the two characters’ unfolding relationship.
• It was through argument the characters were first drawn to one another.
• A university discussion aroused Josh’s interest in Jess and his (perceptive) sense that she wasn’t in ideological lockstep with her friends.