Sarah Elisabeth Coduto

Crack-Up can be described in the same mumbo-jumbo terms aspirational wine connoisseurs like to throw around: dense, oaky, full-throated.

The second solo album from Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, set to release today, is plucky, but not overly bright, occasionally reminiscent of the Black Keys’ trademark style and held together by utterly excellent sound mixing.

“The message Berkeley sends is: you should live better,” wrote computer scientist and essayist Paul Graham in his essay “Cities and Ambition.”

If Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic candidate, Bernie Sanders’ supporters will try to take her — and the country — down.