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An anonymous email circulated by Journal staffers says the editor attempted to ‘desurface’ a story because it was too liberal.

US stock prices tanked on Monday amid high anxiety that a deteriorating job market will trigger a recession. Losses were led by big tech stocks — including Apple, Meta, and Nvidia — that pushed the market to record highs just last month. This column is from Trendlines, my business newsletter that covers the forces shaping the economy in Boston and beyond. If you’d like to receive it via email

The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal defended Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s op-ed while slamming the ProPublica report claiming he flouted ethics rules. The Wall Street Journal published Alito’s prebuttal essay, in which he argued there was no need to disclose a fishing vacation he took with a Republican donor in his job’s financial report, on Tuesday evening hours

Alito’s Journal column, bluntly headlined “ProPublica Misleads Its Readers,” was an unusual public venture by a Supreme Court justice into the highly opinionated realm of a newspaper editorial page. And it drew criticism late Tuesday for effectively leaking elements of ProPublica’s still-in-progress journalism — with the assistance of the Journal’s editorial-page editors. An editor’s note at