Why “#BernieorBust” Is A Dead End

Ricardo Ochoa Medium.com
Does anybody truly believe that, had Sanders run as an independent, he would have made such a large political impact on this race? By running as a Democrat, Sanders has advanced progressive politics at the national level far more effectively than has Jill Stein, or even Ralph Nader. There is a lesson there.

The GOP Now Belongs to Trump. What Are Republicans Going to Do About It?

Eugene Robinson The Washington Post
Republican elected officials and party leaders do not have time for retrospective contemplation. They have a decision to make. The party belongs to Trump now, just as Rome belonged to the barbarians, and GOP politicians have to decide whether to fall in line or take up arms against the new order.

John Oliver: Cicadas

Billions of cicadas will soon emerge after spending 17 years underground. John Oliver fills them in on what's happened since 1999.

Ravel's Bolero in Mexico

Flash Mob performs Bolero in the town square of Toluca, Mexico. Performed by the Toluca Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gerardo Urbán y Fernandez.

Trump Becomes the Nominee

Seth Meyers takes a closer look at how Donald Trump became the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Friday Nite Videos -- May 6, 2016

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Trump Becomes the Nominee. Ravel's Bolero in Mexico. John Oliver: Cicadas. Georgetown University's Legacy of Slavery. Donald Trump: Nomination of a Birther.

There's No Going Back

Sam Rosenfeld Democracy
The initiatives of the New Deal and FDR's Second Bill of Rights represented less a permanent triumph of the welfare state or a model for a progressive way forward than a unique combination of non replicable circumstances, including a temporary cessation of enduring tensions involving race, immigration, culture, class, and individualism, which served to sustain a pale social democratic reform for just a few decades. What followed instead was today's new Gilded Age.