* Oceans are rising faster than at any point in the last 28 centuries and humans are to blame, scientists say. * Oil prices have dropped so low, even pirates aren't interested. * Oil sellers “may be forced by bankruptcy conditions to relent and accept whatever price they can achieve.” * On
* Saudi Arabia’s weapons imports for 2011-15 increased by 275% compared with 2006–10. * Amidst alleged murder spree, Kalamazoo man continued his job as an Uber driver. * Students were armed during America's first school shooting and it didn't help much. * Sanders unlikely to be pleased
* Ankara was bombed Thursday; Turkey blames Kurdish groups allied with United States against ISIS. * Myth of the “black vote” breaks down in Harlem, where some think Clinton will do more for blacks than Obama. * Clinton built a primary "firewall" in Nevada then left it alone, and now Sanders
* Supreme court justices are passionate politicians, not oracles on a Jedi Council. * To deny Obama a third Supreme Court, Republicans invoke Chuck Schumer. * Money hasn’t won votes so far this primary season. * New website sells fancy hotel rooms by the hour, pleasing lovers as well as hotels trying to
* GOP race may come down to that “white whale of politics,” a contested national party convention. * See also: Animated war gifs by the great Christoph Niemann. * Twitter users respond to Jeb's photo of his gun with pictures of tea cups, light sabers, bigger guns. * Somehow, a boiling river
* Now is the time to check the Supreme Court's powers, not pay deference to them. * Scalia abhorred the “exalted conception” of the Court, but his death puts it front and center. * In his decisions, Scalia said the court—”a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine”—needed to
* McConnell commits to unprecedented stand against the Presidency's authority to nominate Supreme Court Justices. * Hillary commits to "single-issue" critique of Sanders—she even unveiled a call-and-response cheer that breaking up banks won't end racism. * In 1990, Trump lost millions to a
* Takeaways from the sixth Democratic debate: Clinton is specific, perhaps nobly; Sanders is all coffeehouse rage. * Kanye West’s sneakers are currently a better investment than almost any other asset class. * "Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli and Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah feud with videos. * See also:
* After negotiations are broadcast live on YouTube, remaining Oregon militia members agree to surrender. * On Hillary and Bill's first date, they crossed a picket line to see a Mark Rothko exhibit. * Milbank: A new Jeb Bush has been sighted on the trail and on TV, and this one
* After Trump triumphs in New Hampshire, GOP envisions a long, bruising fight to secure a palatable competitor. * Sanders’s youth movement powered by revived energy in the new campus left. * Gloria Steinem's comment—that young women are supporting Sanders to meet boys—shows the rift between imperial and
