Sam Alito’s Second Flag Silliness

Sam Alito’s Second Flag Silliness

Note: This first appeared in the Life, Under Construction newsletter emailed to subscribers on May 23. For subscription information, click the subscribe button. Subscribe! Another flag? I don’t believe it. Okay, I have to believe it. The New York...
Murphy: Why Right Wisconsin Was Killed

Murphy: Why Right Wisconsin Was Killed

What killed RightWisconsin? Urban Milwaukee Editor Bruce Murphy and I had a nice discussion about what caused me to pull the plug on RightWisconsin*. “It was like going electric at the folk festival,” Wigderson jokes, referring to the famous incident in 1965 where Bob...
Caesar’s Wife

Caesar’s Wife

Note: This first appeared in the Life, Under Construction newsletter emailed to subscribers on May 23. For subscription information, click the subscribe button. Subscribe! Caesar’s Wife “I thought my wife ought not even to be under suspicion.”...
Missing the Point

Missing the Point

Annie Lowrey at The Atlantic speculates why the economy is not a winning issue for President Joe Biden. After all, the economy is in pretty good shape, Lowrey says. The jobless rate is below 4 percent, as it has been for nearly two and a half years. Wage growth is...