Vox Sentences: New Hampshire votes to overthrow the billionaires, also make a billionaire president

Bernie and Trump take New Hampshire, and the Supreme Court deals a temporary but tough blow to climate change action.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

TOP NEWS

New Hampshire, part one: a yuge comeback

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• Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders won stunning victories on Tuesday that will shock elites in both parties.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• Trump's victory wasn't surprising, given the polling going in. The sheer scale of his victory — nearly 20 points! — suggests this is a terrifying moment in American politics, where open xenophobia and racism have real political purchase.

  [Vox / Ezra Klein]

• John Kasich finished ahead of the other establishment candidates. But he was a perfect New Hampshire candidate, and it's unclear if he has much staying power.

  [Washington Post / Callum Borchers]

• Marco Rubio was a dismal fifth, which probably had something to do with his gaffe at the debate on Saturday. Rubio, for his part, thought the debate went well until he checked Twitter.

  [The New York Times / Jeremy W. Peters and Michael Barbaro]

• Chris Christie got sixth, and predictably dropped out.

  [Vox / Michelle Hackman]

• Carly Fiorina was seventh, and is gone too. The field can now be divided in three: the anti-establishmentarians (Trump and Cruz), the split establishment (Kasich, Rubio, Jeb Bush), and the truly doomed (Ben Carson and Jim Gilmore).

  [CNN / Eric Bradner]

• Jeb Bush is going to be deploying his secret weapon in South Carolina: his brother.

  [Washington Post / Ed O'Keefe]

New Hampshire, part two: to the Finland Station

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• Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire by 22.4 points after trailing by 40 at the beginning of the year.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• This is a bad moment for Hillary Clinton, but the path ahead looks much more promising.

  [Slate / Jamelle Bouie]

• Sanders certainly has the funds to keep going strong: He raised $5.2 million in small donations in the 18 hours after the polls closed.

  [Washington Post / Matea Gold and John Wagner]

• The weird superdelegate math that may actually mean Clinton won New Hampshire, as more state elected officials and DNC members back her.

  [NPR / Danielle Kurtzleben]

• Tuesday night's results apparently brought former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg closer to mounting an independent campaign.

  [Wall Street Journal / Mara Gay and Josh Dawsey ]

Maybe we won't always have Paris

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• The Supreme Court's conservative justices have halted a major piece of President Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan.

  [Vox / Brad Plumer]

• The Court's ruling could imperil the United States' ability to honor the Paris Agreement reached last December. The US commitment to cut power plant emissions helped get the deal done, and was key to its emission reduction pledges made as part of the agreement.

  [The Atlantic / Robinson Meyer]

• The power plant rules are also a good reminder of just how high the stakes are in the 2016 presidential election: There's no way a Republican White House would be this aggressive.

  [New York Magazine / Jon Chait]

• The 5-4 decision undercuts the lower DC Circuit court, which will hear arguments in the case on June 2.

  [Bloomberg View / Noah Feldman]

• The Justice Department had, naturally, pushed the court not to impose the delay. If the Supreme Court declines to hear the case when it's done at the DC Circuit, the order will be lifted, but given that five justices backed the stay and only four are needed to grant review, it's likely the case makes it to SCOTUS.

  [Lyle Denniston / SCOTUS Blog]

MISCELLANEOUS

The federal government has ruled that self-driving car software can be considered a "driver" for legal purposes. [The Guardian / Danny Yadron]

• Meet Sci-Hub: like BitTorrent, but for academic research.

  [Big Think / Simon Oxenham]

• A Twitter account is compiling actual intro descriptions for female leads in new movie scripts. It's about as bad as you'd expect.

  [Twitter / femscriptintros]

• Shocking news: Building more housing lowers rents.

  [Greater Greater Washington / John Ricco]

• It might sound like a joke, but human-tiger conflict (HTC) is a serious public health risk in some parts of eastern India and Bangladesh — and widows of tiger victims face much worse stigma than other widows.

  [Chowdhury et al., 2016]

VERBATIM

"This is a tragedy of many dimensions, and contemplating it makes me infinitely sad." [Ian Tattersall to Science / Michael Balter]

• "The latest example is a young man stabbed to the chest Wednesday around 10 am. He suffered a potentially survivable injury, but it took more than 18 minutes for a transport ambulance to reach the 35-year-old man on 37th Street SE. We failed that young man and it did not make the news."

  [DC fire department medical director Jullette Saussy]

• "He’s not just planning to caucus for Clinton but also volunteering for her campaign, along with his wife, who had cancer detected and treated after she got insurance under the Affordable Care Act. 'We almost feel like we owe Obama our life,' Blythe says."

  [Bloomberg / Josh Eidelson]

• "I would have thrown a rock at that lady in The Lottery. You kidding me? Tessie Hutchinson? Threw a rock right at her face, then gone home for supper."

  [The Toast / Mallory Ortberg]

• "If you include the Democratic side, Gilmore finished with fewer votes than: Former candidate Martin O'Malley, who dropped out after Iowa; David Thistle, identified as BuzzFeed as "A man from New Hampshire"; Vermin Supreme, the perennial New Hampshire Democratic candidate who wears a boot on his head .

  [Washington Post / Aaron Blake]

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Primary elections are surprisingly new. Here's where they came from. [YouTube / Liz Scheltens, Joe Posner, and Carlos Waters]

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