Stop worrying about the process, Jamelle Bouie writes in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s clinch of the Democratic nomination on Tuesday night. It’s (mostly) fine. “Most democratic systems—including our own—are a blend of majoritarian, nonmajoritarian, and even countermajoritarian elements that translate, temper, or otherwise channel the behavior and choices of majorities,” Bouie writes. “What determines if the entire system is democratic is whether it’s rule-bound, transparent, and ultimately accountable to the public. That description fits the Democratic nomination process, and insofar as it doesn’t, only minor tweaks are needed.”
With the nomination a done deal, Eric Holthaus calls on his fellow climate activists to shake their heads and commit to Hillary. “Hillary’s climate policy proposals go significantly beyond Obama’s, but still, even if they all succeed, will reduce carbon by only about half the rate needed to hit our globally agreed-upon temperature targets, considering America’s fair share,” Holthaus observes. “Whatever she does is not likely to be enough. But it’s at least something.”
The outraged response to the outcome of the Brock Turner sexual assault case is deeply hypocritical, writes Mark Joseph Stern. “[Liberal critics’] willingness to toss due process out the window in sexual assault cases is, unfortunately, indicative of a broader inconsistency that plagues the American left,” Stern writes. “Liberals’ blasé attitude toward judicial impeachment and victim impact statements in the Turner case must be viewed as part of a larger trend: the willingness among a certain faction of the American left to jettison progressive principles in a good-hearted but profoundly misguided effort to stop sexual violence.”
Hawaiian immersion schools have brought the Hawaiian language back from the near-dead—an irony, on an island where schools were once used to drum Hawaiian language and culture out of young people. Alexandria Neason visits, with a question: “Can a marginalized community repurpose an institution that was used to subjugate them?”
Sure, sure, you’re tired of O.J. Simpson, Jack Hamilton writes. Make time in your life for ESPN’s new 7½-hour documentary, O.J.: Made in America, anyway. This is “the best piece of original programming the cable sports network has ever produced,” Hamilton raves. “Partly due to its virtuosic storytelling and partly to its sheer scope, Made in America often feels like several masterpieces unfolding at a single time…As a film about race in America, Made in America is razor-sharp and remarkably nuanced.”
For fun: “8 Characters I Created To Teach My Kid About Dental Hygiene That Have Unfortunately Come To Life”
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