Vox Sentences: We live in a world where Donald Trump has probably won a presidential primary

New Hampshire speaks; another growing humanitarian crisis in Syria; Obama's last budget won't pass but matters anyway.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

TOP NEWS

What's the new New Hampshire?

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• The polls have barely closed in New Hampshire. The New York Times is one of the sites that will be collecting results throughout the night; check here.

  [NYT]

• Exit polls, however, looked pretty clear, with Donald Trump winning the Republican primary and Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic one.

  [Ryan Grim via Twitter]

• It is okay to be a little shocked that Donald Trump has, in all probability, won a presidential primary. Here are some charts to help you understand why Trumpism is such a BFD.

  [Vox / Libby Nelson and Dara Lind]

• The interesting race on the Republican side is the fight for second place — with Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Chris Christie, and Jeb Bush(!) all having a fighting chance, the race could be very unsettled going into South Carolina.

  [National Review / Tim Alberta]

• For Democrats, the interesting races are the next ones: Nevada (which comes next for Dems) and South Carolina. Because those states are less white than Iowa and New Hampshire, they've been seen as Hillary Clinton's "firewall" to stop Sanders.

  [Boston Globe / Tracy Jan and Annie Linskey]

• But the Washington Post's Aaron Blake makes a persuasive case that Nevada, at least, isn't as much of a lock for Clinton as she might hope.

  [Washington Post / Aaron Blake]

• Regardless of who wins the Democratic nomination, Vox's Matt Yglesias argues, Bernie Sanders is the future of the party.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

Aleppo under siege

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• The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is laying siege to the city of Aleppo — cutting off hundreds of thousands of people from international aid.

  [CNN / Tim Lister]

• Many residents are already fleeing to Turkey (in another wave of the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis). Others are, the UN warns, at risk of starvation if the siege continues.

  [NBC News / Ram Baghdadi and Alistair Jamison]

• Vox's Zack Beauchamp explains why the Aleppo siege is such a big deal in the context of Syria's civil war.

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

• Assad's forces wouldn't have been able to do this without Russia, which has been bombing the city as part of the offensive — and, according to US officials, killing at least 150 civilians over the weekend.

  [NBC News / Elisha Fieldstadt]

• The Obama administration appears to believe that Russia's involvement saved Assad, and has totally changed the course of the war.

  [Washington Post / Greg Miller]

• But as regional expert Michael Hanna points out, that doesn't give the US a whole lot of options: "It’s probably true that the Russians only understand force, but should we go to war with Russia?"

  [Politico / Nahal Toosi]

The next Democratic president's first budget

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• President Obama has officially released the last budget of his administration.

  [White House]

• It will not pass Congress.

  [Washington Post / Kelsey Snell]

• As former administration economist Jared Bernstein writes, though, the budget is useful mostly as a marker for the next Democratic president: Some of the ideas in Bill Clinton's last budget were passed in Obama's first one.

  [Washington Post / Jared Bernstein]

• One of the ideas Obama is hoping to plant in Democrats' heads: a system of wage insurance, to help people who are forced to take much lower-paying jobs after their skills become obsolete.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• The list of things Obama is willing to cut is arguably even more revealing — including some things congressional Democrats tend to feel they have to go along with, like a program reimbursing local jails for holding unauthorized immigrants.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

MISCELLANEOUS

The at-home interview with a politician and his or her family is now a classic trope of magazines from Ladies' Home Journal to US Weekly to Vogue. But the first politician to do one was … Hitler. [Quartz / Anne Quito]

• The US was the first (and, to date, only) country to put a man on the moon. But the Soviet Union beat us to sending a lander there. Few people remember that mission, but it was hugely important.

  [The Conversation / Mike Cruise]

• Pad thai was more-or-less invented on the orders of Thailand's military dictator Phibun in the late 1930s.

  [Priceonomics / Alex Mayyasi]

• Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon usually get credit for Southern racists leaving the Democratic Party. But socialist activists like Bayard Rustin, Michael Harrington, and Max Shachtman deserve credit too.

  [Jacobin / Paul Heideman]

• This piece on the firing of Kenneth Zucker, a psychologist who believes that prepubescent kids are too young to know if they're trans, is fascinating, well-reported, and worth reading regardless of what you think of Zucker's position.

  [NY Mag / Jesse Singal]

VERBATIM

"This is an old building, so there are a lot of dead spots where the WiFi doesn't work." [President Obama on the White House to CBS News / Gayle King]

• "Now she’s sobbing, clutching her friend—who didn’t puke in front of cops and gets to stay. 'I won’t do it,' the friend swears. 'I won’t see Fetty Wap without you, I promise.'"

  [Fusion / Kelsey McKinney]

• "Men are twice as likely as women to have their request for a flexible work schedule rejected, according to a new study from Australia."

  [Washington Post / Danielle Paquette]

• "Let’s put it this way: Imagine if Barack and Michelle Obama joined the board of a charity you’re involved in. You’d be happy to have such people in your community. Could you say that comfortably about Ted Cruz?"

  [NYT / David Brooks]

• "Do I have a big enough role to warrant a role in the movie, a la Jeremy Bash in Recount?"

  [Philippe Reines to Mark Halperin, via Gawker / JK Trotter]

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Rachel Maddow on skinhead protests, AIDS activism, and why she skips the op-ed page [Vox / Ezra Klein and Rachel Maddow]

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