When it came to the Bernie Sanders campaign's creation of confrontations, Politico reports one person was calling the shots: the candidate himself. Yes, the Vermont senator himself wrote the leave-the-woman-out challenge to Donald Trump to a one-on-one debate. After noting the many ranges of opinion within his campaign, Politico reporters write: "But more than any of them, Sanders is himself filled with resentment, on edge, feeling like he gets no respect — all while holding on in his head to the enticing but remote chance that Clinton may be indicted before the convention."
"Inside the bitter last days of Bernie's revolution," Politico.
As for the Democratic winner, the New York Times takes a deep look at Hillary Clinton's campaign, starting with the moment when, in the middle of a long day of congressional questioning about her emails, she "coolly brushed from her shoulder a speck of lint, dirt — or perhaps nothing at all." Writer Amy Chozick explores how Clinton's grit paid off in the primaries and whether it will work against Donald Trump.
"Hillary Clinton's long, grueling quest," the New York Times.
The University of Washington is now ranked 11th in the world! How many stories have we seen proclaiming something along those lines? A University of British Columbia professor has been studying the worldwide fascination with rankings of universities and found that the media has a major role. That's because the rankings, usually done by the media themselves, sell magazines or content. All told, the rankings may do more harm than good. Despite her research on the rankings, UBC prof Michelle Stack confesses to the Tyee of Vancouver that she briefly got excited when she hear her own department, education, had been ranked No. 1 in Canada and No. 9 worldwide.
