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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.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, No More Mister Nice Blog and Althouse
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.
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump delegates blocked from key posts in New Hampshire
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Political Wire, UnionLeader.com and Guardian
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 …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sanders makes a public plea for Democratic superdelegates to switch allegiances
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The Week
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Sanders: ‘The convention will be a contested contest’
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ABC News, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo and NBC News
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.
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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.
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Washington Post, Daily Mail and New York Times
Wright-Master / Dr. Craig Wright Blog:
Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing and Significance
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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.
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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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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 …
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 …
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Political Wire
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.”
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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 …
John Pfaff / New York Times:
A Mockery of Justice for the Poor — OVER the past year, everyone from the conservative Right on Crime project to the Black Lives Matter movement has pushed criminal justice reform to the forefront of political debates. Yet politicians at every level of government remain almost completely silent …
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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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.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
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 …
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