Wednesday, April 13, 2016

10 Best Italian Dishes In Los Angeles

10 Best Italian Dishes In Los Angeles: The Italian culinary scene has exploded in Los Angeles over the past few years with exciting and ambitious new restaurants joining old but still relevant favorites.

Saturday, April 2, 2016

How the Politics of Resentment Corrupted Wisconsin's Culture of Nice - Nexus - Zócalo Public Square

How the Politics of Resentment Corrupted Wisconsin's Culture of Nice - Nexus - Zócalo Public Square: The April 5 presidential primaries in Wisconsin are expected to be close in both parties, and critical to deciding the Republican contest between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. And the winners will be determined by whoever best harnesses Wisconsin’s politics of resentment. This is still a shocking thing for lifelong Wisconsinites like me. Wisconsin is not typically characterized as resentful. We are supposed to be nice—“Wisconsin nice” is a special version of Midwestern polite. But there is now some deep resentment in Wisconsin, driven by economics, and propelled into politics by savvy politicians during this decade. And now it is hitting this presidential election with full force. I am a professor at the state’s flagship public university, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and also a life-long Wisconsinite. I have been studying the politics of resentment here for the last nine years. I didn’t set out to study resentment, but it was what I found. I study public opinion, and have always …