Dahlia Lithwick has a modest proposal for Merrick Garland: If you want to become a Supreme Court justice, you’re going to need to take drastic action. “After a suitable period of time—let’s say by the end of September of 2016—Judge Garland should simply suit up and take the vacant seat at the court,” says Lithwick, who is only partially kidding. “This would entail walking into the Supreme Court on the first Monday in October, donning an extra black robe, seating himself at the bench, sipping from the mighty silver milkshake cup before him, and looking like he belongs there, in the manner of George Costanza.”
Finally, writes Isaac Chotiner, a television interviewer got serious with Donald Trump. In Tuesday night’s town hall on CNN, “after months of softball interviews, [Anderson] Cooper went after Ted Cruz and (especially) Donald Trump with forensic skill,” Chotiner writes. “In response, Trump flailed and crumbled, the bigot and misogynist in him laid bare. Will it matter? Probably not.”
Trump’s refusal to fire campaign manager Corey Lewandowski is classic Trump, writes Jim Newell. “This refusal to ever say he was wrong about anything horrible he or his team have done is a big part of Trump’s appeal among his core group of supporters,” Newell points out—adding, with some degree of hopefulness: “It will also, eventually, be his electoral end.”
As students who’ve applied to elite colleges and universities find out about acceptances and rejections, and media outlets expend their coverage accordingly, Ben Casselman at FiveThirtyEight reminds the media that it desperately needs to widen its focus to cover college experiences beyond the Ivy League.
“For most students, or at least most high school graduates, getting into college isn’t nearly as big a challenge as getting out,” Casselman writes, citing one key difference. “Barely half of first-time, full-time bachelor’s degree students graduate within six years; for part-time or community college students, that share is even lower.”
How to make the hummus they serve at Philadelphia’s Israeli restaurant Zahav, which has been described as “buttercream” in its perfect consistency? Here’s the recipe.
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Rebecca
