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8:40 AM ET, May 2, 2016

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Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny … Illustration by  —  As this dystopian election campaign has unfolded, my mind keeps being tugged by a passage in Plato's Republic.  It has unsettled — even surprised — me from the moment I first read it in graduate school.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Why Rubio hasn't endorsed Cruz  —  Marco Rubio won't be endorsing Ted Cruz during the Republican presidential primary, but he's likely to back the Texas senator at a contested convention — if it gets that far.  —  The de facto plan, Rubio's backers say, is designed to help Cruz.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Mike Pence / Indianapolis Star:
Why I will vote for Ted Cruz  —  On Tuesday, the eyes of the nation will focus on Indiana as Hoosiers head to the polls to play a critical role in the selection of candidates vying to serve as the next president of the United States.  It has been a true joy to watch the people of our state play host …
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump delegates blocked from key posts in New Hampshire
Associated Press:
A Confident Trump Seeks Knockout of Cruz in Indiana
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:
Bernie Sanders Vows Contested Convention, Makes Case for Superdelegate Flips  —  The Vermont senator continued to argue that he could still win the Democratic nomination.  —  aritbenie  —  Bernie Sanders on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of his bid for the White House by vowing …
Discussion: The Hill and liberalamerica.org
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘The convention will be a contested contest’
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sanders makes a public plea for Democratic superdelegates to switch allegiances
Discussion: The Week
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders: ‘It will be a contested convention’
Discussion: New York Times
BBC:
Craig Wright revealed as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto  —  Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.  —  His admission ends years of speculation about who came up with the original ideas underlying the digital cash system.
Discussion: Computerworld, The Week and Mashable
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Economist:
Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto.  Is he?  —  Evaluating his claim will involve a multi-step paternity test  —  IMAGINE that the paternity of a particularly brilliant child is in doubt, and someone steps forward to claim he is the father.  In the real world a DNA test would sort the matter out quickly.
Wright-Master / Dr. Craig Wright Blog:
Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance
Discussion: Al Jazeera English
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Obama's “Trudge up the Hill” joke wasn't really about Hillary.  It was a Bernie Sanders dig  —  Out of President Obama's roughly thirty-minute set at the White House Correspondents' Dinner Saturday night, one joke stands out as unusually revealing of how the president thinks about politics.
Discussion: Scripting News
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
The joke was that Obama wasn't joking
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump: 'We can't continue to allow China to rape our country'  —  (CNN)Donald Trump on Sunday compared the U.S.'s trade deficit with China, which he regularly laments and vows to tackle as president, to rape.  —  “We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing …
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Michael Walsh / New York Post:   How Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton
CNN:
U.S. cruise sets sail for Cuba; first voyage in decades draws protests  —  Miami (CNN)The first U.S. cruise ship bound for Cuba in decades set sail Sunday as salsa music played and protesters picketed nearby.  —  Standing beside a Cuban flag and an American flag, the cruise manager touted the journey as “the beginning of a new era.”
Discussion: The Hill and The Week
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Sun-Sentinel:
Cruise to Cuba: Travelers to ‘make history’ in Havana
Discussion: The Atlantic and 6
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Senate on pace for lightest work schedule in 60 years  —  Senate Republicans have left town for another recess with their yearlong claim that the Senate is “back to work” an increasingly tough sell to voters.  —  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has worked painstakingly to craft …
Discussion: Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
CNN Enjoys Outsize Ratings Boost From Presidential Race  —  Time Warner's cable news network has more than doubled target prime-time audience this year and continues to raise ad rates  —  When CNN President Jeff Zucker saw the ratings for Fox News's first Republican debate last August …
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Sundance / The Last Refuge:
The “Trump Effect” - Fox News Joins Macy's On The Losing End of Anti-Trump Efforts...
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Letting Stephen Colbert Be Stephen Colbert (Whoever That Is)  —  Last Wednesday, the CBS chairman Leslie Moonves ducked into that night's taping of Stephen Colbert's “Late Show,” and then joined Mr. Colbert in his office above the Ed Sullivan Theater.  —  There Mr. Moonves …
Molly Worthen / New York Times:
Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’  —  IN American politics, few forces are more powerful than a voter's vague intuition.  “I support Donald Trump because I feel like he is a doer,” a senior at the University of South Carolina told Cosmopolitan.  “Personally, I feel like Bernie Sanders is too idealistic …
Victoria St. Martin / Washington Post:
For local transgender teen, national debate on restrooms is just a start  —  There was the name change.  The lost friendships.  And the friends who kept using the wrong pronoun.  Cayden McDonald, who came out in a Facebook post as transgender in April 2012, would gently remind them that he is a “he” now.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Reagan Coalition Is Dead.  What's Next For Conservatism?  —  Ronald Reagan swept to two landslide victories on the strength of his famous three-legged stool—economic conservatism, social conservatism and an internationalist, hawkish foreign policy.  But the elements of the Reagan coalition …
Tom Wilson / New York Post:
Historic church up in flames after Easter service  —  A massive 4-alarm fire engulfed a Serbian Orthodox church in Manhattan on Sunday—hours after their Easter service, authorities said.  —  The blaze broke out in Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava at 20 W 25th St at around 6:49 p.m., according to FDNY officials.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
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Discussion: New York Times
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Kyle Smith / New York Post:
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Todd S. Purdum / Politico:
How Hillary Could Win the Election—and Lose the Country
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Scalia's death affecting next term, too? Pace of accepted cases at Supreme Court slows.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Pennsylvania GOP senator on collision course with Trump
Vivian Yee / New York Times:
From Albany to Prison: Ex-Lawmakers on Life Behind Bars
Story Hinckley / Christian Science Monitor:
As deadlines come and go, Puerto Rico's debt crisis grows
Discussion: Hot Air and Forbes
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Toddlers have shot at least 23 people this year
Discussion: The Week and WRDW-TV