Searching for the Next Steve Martin
July 30, 2018 ·
Web Only, culture, Pop Culture
As the comedian pivoted from political comedy to become a legend, so too will another generation of funny-men and -women—and soon.
’Twas a Dark and Stormy Night
May 8, 2018 ·
stormy daniels, Donald Trump, Politics
Stormy Daniels’s turn on Saturday Night Live is a microcosm of what’s wrong with comedy in the Trump era.
The Democrats' Fake Mustache
February 9, 2018 ·
Paul Ryan, Randy Bryce, Christian Schneider
Milwaukee
Wisconsin, the Surveillance State
December 15, 2017 ·
Spying, Criminal Justice, Surveillance
On May 23, the Wisconsin Department of Justice (WisDOJ) received a call from the state’s ethics board. An employee rummaging around in the basement of the building had found a filing cabinet full of material from the now-defunct “John Doe” investigations into the state’s Republican governor, Scott…