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12:15 PM ET, May 21, 2016

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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Clinton feels no pressure to debate Sanders  —  say the Democratic front-runner should feel no pressure to appear in another debate against Bernie Sanders  —  Sanders accepted an invitation by Fox News earlier this week to take part in an upcoming debate ahead of the California primary.
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Sanders should stop attacking Clinton
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Daily Wire
Isaac Arnsdorf / Politico:
Trump's campaign dwarfed by Clinton's
Discussion: Slantpoint
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Why Donald Trump's poll numbers are surging
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Army of Sanders supporters fuming over Wasserman Schultz
Discussion: Liberal Values
Adam Gopnik / New Yorker:
The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump  —  “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, / As, to be hated, needs but to be seen,” the poet Alexander Pope wrote, in lines that were once, as they said back in the day, imprinted on the mind of every schoolboy.  Pope continued, “Yet seen too oft …
Telegraph:
Venezuela: how the socialist paradise turned into debt and hyperinflation hell  —  They call them bachaqueros.  Venezuela's army of black market shoppers descend every day at dawn outside Caracas's biggest stores.  —  Named after the bachaco leaf-cutting ant that carries several times its weight …
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Sibylla Brodzinsky / Guardian:
‘We are like a bomb’: food riots show Venezuela crisis has gone beyond politics
Discussion: Forbes
Page Six:
Hypocrite!  Leo takes private jet to collect environmental award  —  Leo DiCaprio picked up an environmental award in NYC this week — but hypocritically expanded his carbon footprint by 8,000 miles when he obtained the honor, by taking a private jet from Cannes, then flying straight …
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Clinton mocked for misuse of Venn diagram  —  Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton  —  was mocked Friday for tweeting a graphic that didn't appear quite right.  —  The former secretary of State's campaign tried to illustrate the support for background checks for gun sales by using a Venn diagram.
Eric Limer / Popular Mechanics:
World's Largest Solar Plant Sets Itself on Fire  —  Improperly aligned mirrors redirected the sun's rays at the wrong spot.  —  The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a concentrated solar thermal in California and the world's largest solar thermal power station …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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Associated Press:
Mirrors blamed for fire at world's largest solar plant
George Dvorsky / Gizmodo:
The World's Largest Solar Plant Just Torched Itself
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Eric Zorn / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Lessons gleaned from a web of lies in Iowa  —  Marcus Owens, 19, a 2015 graduate of Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, told police he was attacked Saturday night outside an Iowa City lounge.  —  Change of Subject  —  Let's take a look at the recent statement issued …
Deena Shanker / Bloomberg:
Eat This Now, Before They Tell You Not To  —  Why the U.S. dietary guidelines keep changing and how to read them.  —  As Jerry Seinfeld might say, what's the deal with nutrition science?  One day eggs are bad, next day they're good.  Or good in moderation.  Who knows?
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fda.gov:
Changes to the Nutrition Facts Label
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Donald Trump Tells N.R.A. Hillary Clinton Wants to Let Violent Criminals Go Free  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Donald J. Trump accused Hillary Clinton on Friday of wanting to let violent criminals out of prison and “disarm” law-abiding citizens in unsafe neighborhoods, and warned that women …
Discussion: Althouse
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L.V. Anderson / Slate:
Why a Woman Putting on a Chewbacca Mask Is Facebook Live's Most-Watched Video Ever  —  BuzzFeed's exploding watermelon can take a hike.  There's a new most-watched Facebook Live video of all time (and by “all time,” I of course mean “the five-plus months since Facebook Live Video became available to noncelebrities").
Discussion: Towleroad
Deirdre N. McCloskey / Wall Street Journal:
How the West (and the Rest) Got Rich  —  The Great Enrichment of the past two centuries has one primary source: the liberation of ordinary people to pursue their dreams of economic betterment  —  Why are we so rich?  An American earns, on average, $130 a day, which puts the U.S. in the highest rank of the league table.
Discussion: Greg Mankiw's Blog
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
The Hamptons are this summer's orgy hotspot  —  Orgies for profit are coming to the Hamptons.  —  Killing Kittens, the London-based club for swingers, is holding its first East End party June 18 at an undisclosed private estate.  —  Member couples shell out $400, while single women pay $150.
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
Target CEO Blames Climate Change, Not Bathroom Policy, for Hurting Sales  —  As retailer Target sees its stock plummeting and sales dropping in the midst of a boycott over its recently announced pro-transgender bathroom policy, the company's CEO is insisting the weather is the cause of falling sales, not the company's bathroom policy.
Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Group that helped sell Iran nuke deal also funded media  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A group the White House recently identified as a key surrogate in selling the Iran nuclear deal gave National Public Radio $100,000 last year to help it report on the pact and related issues, according to the group's annual report.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump reaches out to #NeverTrump  —  Recently the Trump campaign reached out to National Review, whose “Against Trump” edition galvanized the #NeverTrump movement, seeking input in compiling a list of possible Supreme Court nominees.  It was just one example of Trump attempting to mend fences …
David Harsanyi / Washington Post:
We must weed out ignorant Americans from the electorate  —  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at the Federalist.  —  Never have so many people with so little knowledge made so many consequential decisions for the rest of us.  —  A person need only survey the inanity of the ongoing presidential race …
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
Sting of Myself  —  Amateurish spies like James O'Keefe III attempt to sway the 2016 campaign.  —  As Dana Geraghty recalls it, March 16th was a “rather quiet Wednesday.”  That afternoon, she was in her cubicle at the Open Society Foundations, on West Fifty-seventh Street …
Jennifer Sinco Kelleher / Talking Points Memo:
Honolulu Settles Suit From Lesbians Jailed For Kissing  —  HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu has agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a lawsuit from two gay women who allege a police officer wrongfully arrested them after seeing them kissing in a grocery store.  —  Details of the settlement were announced Friday in federal court in Honolulu.
Discussion: alan.com and Towleroad
maroon5.com:
We have announced that we will be canceling our upcoming shows in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina  —  We have announced that we will be canceling our upcoming shows in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina because of the recent passage of the HB2 legislation.  This was a difficult decision for us to make as a band.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Facebook ‘Trending’ List Skewed by Individual Judgment, Not Institutional Bias  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Last July, in a seventh-floor conference room at Facebook's Lower Manhattan offices, a small group met to discuss the future of news media on the social network.
Lizzie Parry / Daily Mail:
Heart attacks could be caused by too LITTLE salt new study shows  —  It has long been held that a diet high in salt is dangerous to the heart, raising the risk of heart attack and stroke.  —  But, in a dramatic U-turn, the scientific evidence has suggested the opposite can also be true.
 
 
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