Here are the ten(ish) links I learned from this week:

1. Graphic: The Definitely Messy, Probably Solvable Reasons Americans Don’t Vote (Bloomberg)
2. Political scientists have found the weird reason polls bounce around wildly during conventions (Vox)
3. Illegal in Massachusetts: Asking Your Salary in a Job Interview (The New York Times)
4. Could a third-party candidate win the U.S. presidency? That’s very unlikely. (The Washington Post)
5. Clinton and Trump are both promising an extreme Supreme Court (FiveThirtyEight)
6. American foreign policy: Playing it long (The Economist)
7. John McCain’s powerful statement to the Khans (CNN Politics)
   1. Further Reading: Republicans denounce Trump as confrontation with Muslim parents escalates (The Washington Post)
8. Election Update: Clinton’s Bounce Appears Bigger Than Trump’s (FiveThirtyEight)
   1. Further Reading: The general election starts now. Here’s how to read the polls. (Vox)

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Here are the ten(ish) links I learned from this week:

1. The “Other Side” is Not Dumb (Medium)
2. The Raw Videos That Have Sparked Outrage Over Police Treatment of Blacks (The New York Times)
3. What Gary Johnson, the Libertarian nominee for president, wants to do to America (The Washington Post)
4. Three Terrible Things the Election is Teaching Your Child (Time)
5. F.B.I. Director James Comey Recommends No Charges for Hillary Clinton on Email (The New York Times)
   1. Further Reading: Hillary Clinton’s email problems might be even worse than we thought (The Washington Post)
6. Hillary Clinton plans to fill half of her Cabinet with women. Here’s why that matters. (Vox)
7. From Whitewater to Benghazi: A Clinton-Scandal Primer (The Atlantic)
8. Brexit is about the United States, Donald Trump, and especially fear (Vox)
9. Bernie Sanders Expected to Endorse Hillary Clinton on Tuesday (NPR)

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Here are the ten(ish) links I learned from this week:

1. This handy tool tells you where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump stand on the issues (The Washington Post)
2. Pay attention to Gary Johnson; He’s Pulling 10% vs. Trump and Clinton (FiveThirtyEight)
3. What the new inspector general report on Hillary Clinton’s e-mails actually says (Vox)
   1. Further Reading: Hillary Clinton’s e-mail problems just got much worse (The Washington Post)
4. The Humbling of Paul Ryan (The Atlantic)
5. Campaign money in 2016 has become meaningless (Vox)
6. Racial prejudice, not populism or authoritarianism, predicts support for Trump over Clinton (The Washington Post)
7. What Bernie Sanders gets right when he says the system is rigged against him (Vox)
8. Opinion: Do Sanders Supporters Favor his Policies? (The New York Times)
9. Sheryl Sandberg Commencement Speech, UC Berkeley (May 2016)

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Here are the ten(ish) links I learned from this week:

1. Presidential Election Update
   1. Bernie and Trump win Oregon
   2. Clinton narrowly wins Kentucky
2. Is your Facebook feed biased?
   1. Video: Could Facebook Rig the 2016 Election? (The Atlantic)
   2. Blue Feed, Red Feed: See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side (The Wall Street Journal)
   3. Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News (Gizmodo)
   4. Inside Facebook’s meeting with conservatives (The Washington Post)
   5. The Most Disturbing Thing About My Meeting with Mark Zuckerberg (Glenn Beck)
3. Supreme Court punts on latest Obamacare birth control challenge (Vox)
4. Donald Trump releases list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees (The Washington Post)
   1. Further Reading: Your guide to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist (Vox)
5. What’s in Donald Trump’s 104-Page Financial Disclosure (The New York Times)
6. How I Acted Like a Pundit and Screwed Up on Donald Trump (FiveThirtyEight)
7. Every latest shift in the polls is news. But it shouldn’t be. (The Washington Post)

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Here are the ten(ish) links I learned from this week:

1. Presidential Election Update
   1. Bernie wins West Virginia
   2. Trump wins West Virginia and Nebraska
2. Only 4.7% of eligible voters have so far cast a vote for Donald Trump (Vox)
3. The controversy over Donald Trump’s tax returns, explained (Vox)
   1. Further Reading: What We Can Learn from Donald Trump’s Unreleased Tax Returns (The Upshot)
4. Who does (and does not) support Trump
   1. Conventional Wisdom: Donald Trump’s Messy GOP (FiveThirtyEight)
   2. GOP voters picked Trump. Party leaders aren’t falling in line. Here’s why that’s surprising. (The Washington Post)
   3. Paul Ryan Signals His Surrender (The Atlantic)
   4. A Republican Truce in the Making? (The Atlantic)
5. A Legal Victory Against Obamacare – For Now (The Atlantic)
6. Wonder why prisons stay full when crime goes down? Here’s the real reason. (The Washington Post)
7. The 21 greatest graduation speeches of the last 60 years (Vox)
8. Would Clinton really appoint a cabinet that’s half women and half men? (The Washington Post)
9. Can Trump Win a Data-Free Campaign? (The Atlantic)

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Here are the ten(ish) links I learned from this week:

1. Presidential Election Update
   1. Ted Cruz Suspends his Campaign for President (The New York Times)
   2. John Kasich Drops Out of the Presidential Race (The New York Times)
   3. Bernie wins Indiana (The New York Post)
2. Explaining Trump’s Supporters
   1. The Mythology of Trump’s ‘Working Class’ Support (FiveThirtyEight)
   2. A Surprising number of Americans dislike how messy democracy is. They like Trump. (The Washington Post)
   3. Why Republican Voters Decided on Trump (FiveThirtyEight)
3. Looking forward to November
   1. Will it be Clinton or Trump in November? Here’s what’s wrong with most predictions. (The Washington Post)
   2. 2016 should be winnable for Republicans. But can they win with Trump? (The Washington Post)
   3. Americans’ Distaste for both Trump and Clinton is Record-Breaking (FiveThirtyEight)
4. No, it’s not new that some working-class and poor whites vote Republican (The Washington Post)
5. The clockwork rise of Donald Trump and reorganization of American parties (Vox)
6. Think America’s terrified of Donald Trump? Check out how the rest of the world is reacting (Vox)

“John Kasich” by Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Here are the ten(ish) links I learned from this week:

1. Presidential Election Update
   1. Clinton takes New York
   2. Trump wins in New York
   3. 3 winners and 2 losers from the New York primaries (Vox)
   4. Where they stand: Candidate vs. candidate (The Washington Post)
   5. Presidential primaries delegate tracker, 2016 (Vox)
2. The controversy over Harriet Tubman, Andrew Jackson, and the $20 bill, explained (Vox)
3. Three state and city officials facing criminal charges in Flint water crisis (The Washington Post)
4. Trump Doesn’t have a Monopoly On Intolerant Supporters (FiveThirtyEight)
5. Obama Immigration Plan Seems to Divide Supreme Court (The New York Times)
   1. Further Reading: What you need to know about Monday’s hearing in the Supreme Court immigration case (Vox)
6. Welch v. US: a surprise Supreme Court decision will let some federal prisoners out early (Vox)
7. The most important primary is … wait, Indiana? (The New York Times)
8. 5 huge challenges that self-driving cars still have to overcome (Vox)

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