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I Was Disinvited on Campus
Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal
‘Progressives rule higher education,” write political scientists Jon Shields and Joshua Dunn Sr. in “Passing on the Right,” a new book on the dearth of conservative professors. “Their rule is not absolute. But conservatives are scarcer in academia than in just about any other major profession.”

Trump and the Lord’s Work
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
Like many others, I watched the video that President Obama showed at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday of him inviting former House Speaker John Boehner over to solicit his advice on what Obama should do post-presidency. It was remarkable to see the real Boehner and the real Obama acting like best buddies in the White House movie theater. Boehner even tells Obama that he finally got a “grand bargain” — only it was on a Chevy Tahoe, not the one they tried to negotiate on the economy.

Clinton in ’98, Trump in ’16: Protected by Voters
Steve Mitchell, RealClearPolitics

Bernie Sanders Declares War on Reality
Michael Cohen, Boston Globe
The Democratic presidential candidate has a new excuse for why heâ??s losing.

Sanders Surprises Clinton in Indiana
Nick Gass, Politico
Bernie Sanders upset Hillary Clinton in Indiana’s Democratic primary Tuesday night, giving his flagging campaign another reason to carry on to Philadelphia even though he has virtually no chance of overtaking Clinton for the nomination. With more than three-quarters of precincts reporting, Sanders led 53 percent to 47 percent. Less than a half hour after results began pouring in, Sanders rallied supporters in Louisville, Kentucky, where voters will head to the polls on May 17. Ticking through his standard stump lines while bashing Clinton for her paid speeches and 2002 vote in favor of…

Trump Clinches, Cruz Bails: A New Republican Reality
Howard Kurtz, FOX News
Donald Trump, mocked and minimized by the media for months, dismissed by the pundits as a fringe character, is now the de facto Republican nominee.

An Indiana City Worthy of Presidential Attention
Matthew Tully, Indianapolis Star
The presidential candidates can find Americaâ??s biggest challenges in the city of Gary.

Whistleblowing Is an Act of Political Resistance
Edward Snowden, The Intercept

Trump vs. the New Class
F.H. Buckley, The American Conservative
The Donald is a liberalâ??just like Ronald Reagan was.

GOP Faces a Non-Trump-Related Electoral Disaster in November
Sean Illing, Salon
The GOP has a major problem in November, and Trump is only a small part of it

Hillary Clinton’s Growing Problem With Independents
Rebecca Ballhaus, WSJ
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton faces a mounting challenge among independent voters following months of attacks from rival Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator and longtime independent.

Sanders Will Not Transform the Democratic Party
Jonathan Chait, NY Magazine

Trump: Something New Under the Political Sun
Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
Columnists assured us that Donald Trump’s campaign would implode after he cheaply besmirched war hero John McCain. They assured us again after he crudely dismissed Fox News’s star anchor and heartthrob, Megyn Kelly. And again after his schoolboy rumor-mongering about Senator Ted Cruz’s wife. And on and on.Yet such nonstop insults and gaffes have had little effect on the Trump candidacy. Actually, they have had no effect at all. Zero. Zilch.#ad#Political operatives insisted that Trump would fade, given that he had no real organization on the ground. My God, they said, he has…

Weighing the Chances of a Bernie Sanders Upset in Indiana
David Sirota, IB Times
Key economic indicators favor Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Hoosier State, and a surprise win there could increase his clout at the convention.

Three Possible Outcomes In Indiana’s GOP Primary
Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight
Donald Trump may be a runaway train. He has blasted through his 50 percent â??ceiling,â?? outperforming his polls and winning a clear majority in the last six states to cast ballots. All that success oâ?¦

Did Ted Cruz Get Indiana Wrong?
Adam Wren, Politico
The only problem with Cruz’s socially conservative message? The voters he has to win over on Tuesday don’t like it.

Europe’s Refugee Deal With Turkey Is Working, Sort Of

ESPN Goes Stalinist by Erasing Curt Schilling From History

The ISIS Conundrum

Protesters for Trump

Will Hoosiers Save Ted Cruz?

The Arab Implosion Continues
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
From the temporary takeover of the Green Zone to another shipwreck off Libya, the Arab world continues to fall apart.

Detroit Public Schools Will Be Completely Broke by June
Tara Golshan, Vox
The school system is a mess.

GOP Elites Would Rather Lose With Cruz, Than Win With Trump
Rush Limbaugh
RUSH: George Will actually said that the job of the Republican Party, if Trump is the nominee, will be to lose the presidential election by 50 states. If Trump is the nominee, the GOP must work hard to lose all 50 states. Because the party and preserving it is paramount. And going back to the theory that if Cruz is the nominee and the party wants him to lose… If it’s Cruz versus Trump, you have the establishment deciding which one they prefer, you have to understand that they think that both are going to lose in a landslide. Â

Why Republicans Shouldn’t Fight Dirty
Peter Wehner, Commentary

GOP Tries to Salvage Support Among Women
Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics
Facing the increasingly real prospect of a Donald Trump nomination, the Republican Party is searching for ways to salvage whatever support it has among women voters, particularly as it prepares to…

The Blinding Arrogance of Bernie Sanders’ Critics
Ryan Cooper, The Week
They don’t know half as much about politics as they think they do

Ending America’s Slow-Growth Tailspin
John Cochrane, Wall Street Journal

The Third Way: Share-the-Gains Capitalism
Robert Reich, Huffington Post
Marissa Mayer tells us a lot about why Americans are so angry, and why anti-establishment fury has become the biggest single force in American politic…

Like Obama, Clinton Will Only Have 2 Years to Govern
Paul Waldman, Amer. Prospect
Two years to legislate, and then a big Republican victory that stymies herâ??and that’s if she’s lucky.

The Republican Party Gets What It Deserves
Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal

David Brooks Should Stay in His Little Bourgeois Strata
Charles Hurt, Wash Times
If in the Land of the Blind, the one-eyed man is king, then columnist David Brooks of the New York Times is blind, deaf and dumb inside the Beltway.

How Bernie Changed Hillary
Annie Karni, Politico
Sanders has left a lasting imprint on Clinton’s candidacy, even if few in her camp are willing to admit it.

#NeverTrump Crowd is Running Out of Steam — and Time
Wendy Long, LifeZette
The #NeverTrump crowd is running out of steam â?? and time. All of its attacks â?? that he’s as liberal as Hillary Clinton, anti-immigrant, or a con man who will say anything to be elected â?? have failed. But perhaps the most absurd criticism of the Trump Deniers is the argument that he would hurt Republicans “down ticket.” In fact, the opposite is true. We’ve seen this movie before. In 1980, the Washington Establishment raised the same chorus against Ronald Reagan, who was accused of being a reactionary and a divisive drag on the whole GOP ticket. But Reagan led the…

Trump’s Nomination and the Decaying Republican Party
Jay Cost, Weekly Standard
As the Trump campaign steamrolls ahead, most of us are still scratching our heads. How could this have happened? The usual answer focuses on the grievances of the Trump voter: economic anxiety, frustration with the status quo in politics, the desire to see somebody â??tell it like it is, and so on.But that’s only part of the story. While it is important to appreciate the frustrations of those at the base of the party pyramid, we should not overlook problems nearer the top of the party architecture. Systemic institutional weaknesses, combined with a lack of leadership, have facilitated Trump…

Cruz’s Image Plummets, Trump’s Improves Among GOP
Frank Newport, Gallup
Republicans’ views of Ted Cruz are now at a new low, with 39% viewing him favorably and 45% unfavorably. This reflects a steep slide in his image over the last couple of weeks. Donald Trump’s image is up to +24 among Republicans.

The Hole In Sanders’ Strategy For Winning Nomination
Sam Stein, Huffington Post
Just how democratic should the Democratic primary be?

Seeing a Decisive Win at Hand, Trump Gears Up for Clinton
Rucker et al., Wash Post