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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Puerto Ricans leaving island for U.S. in record numbers  —  (CNN)Puerto Ricans are leaving the island for the mainland United States at a historic rate.  —  The commonwealth's Institute of Statistics revealed Sunday the results of its analysis on 2014 migration, which found that Puerto Rico lost almost 2% of its population that year.

DPS closes 94 schools due to teacher sickout  —  Detroit Public Schools closed 94 of its 97 schools on Monday, citing the Detroit teachers union's call for a districtwide sickout amid concerns about the weakening finances of Michigan's largest school district.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.”