Vox Sentences: The primaries to watch tonight (hint: not the presidential ones)

Super Tuesday? More like Sestak Tuesday; is peace finally coming to South Sudan?; Saudi Arabia's audacious (or just absurd) plan to get off oil.

Vox Sentences is written by Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind.

TOP NEWS

For the love of all that is holy, don't call it the Acela Primary

(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

• Primaries are being held Tuesday in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, in what is being called the "Acela Primary" by people who will be first against the wall come the revolution.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• Donald Trump will win all of those states. He is in general election mode — which, for Trump, looks like quantum-physics-level confusion about whether he is, or is not, "evolving" to become more "presidential."

  [Politico / Kenneth P. Vogel and Eli Stokols]

• Hillary Clinton will win all of those states (with the possible but unlikely exceptions of Rhode Island and Connecticut) too. The Democratic race is pretty much over. Sorry.

  [FiveThirtyEight / Nate Silver]

• The most interesting races are a couple of Democratic Senate primaries: In Pennsylvania, the Democratic establishment has spent millions to try to keep their 2010 candidate from winning the nomination again.

  [Roll Call / Alex Roarty]

• And in Maryland, the fight between Chris Van Hollen (a member of the Democratic leadership in the House) and Donna Edwards (who would be the second black woman in the history of the US Senate) has gotten so nasty that several progressive groups have declined to endorse.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

South Sudanese peace deal implementation delayed by fight over which weapons to bring

(Samir Bol/AFP/Getty Images)

• South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has been sworn in as the country's vice president, following his return to the country after two years of civil war.

  [BBC]

• Machar's return is part of a peace deal set in place earlier this spring, which Machar and the country's president, Salva Kiir, have been dragging their feet on implementing. (Machar arrived in the capital, Juba, a week later than expected, after a fight over which weapons he could bring with him.)

  [AFP]

• Kiir and Machar, former allies, precipitated the civil war in 2013 with a split over succession — spurring ethnic fighting between Kiir's Dinka and Machar's Nuer that spread throughout the country and killed at least 50,000 people.

  [Los Angeles Times / Robyn Dixon]

• The new unity government will now not only have to calm down the fighting between Nuer and Dinka militias (which has continued despite the peace deal), but large-scale cattle raids and fights between the Nuer and the minority Murle near the border with Ethiopia.

  [Los Angeles Times / Robyn Dixon]

• That will require a security infrastructure, which South Sudan (which only became independent in 2011) just doesn't have.

  [The Atlantic / Nshira Turkson]

• The good news for South Sudan is that it has high economic upside; it was expecting big investment from China before the civil war broke out. The bad news is that it has to deal with its postwar humanitarian crisis first.

  [The Hill / David Abramowitz]

The "manic optimism" of Vision 2030

(Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images)

• Saudi Arabia has unveiled an ambitious — not to say pie-in-the-sky — plan to end its economic "dependence" on oil revenues by 2030.

  [Wall Street Journal / Margherita Stancati and Ahmed al Omran]

• The plan, called Vision 2030, includes a proposal to sell 5 percent of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Aramco — in what will surely be the biggest IPO in history — to raise revenue, in addition to plans to diversify into tourism and other non-oil sectors.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

• Vision 2030 is the brainchild of Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who's second in line for the throne currently occupied by his father. Bin Salman is 31, and is generally regarded as young, scrappy, and hungry (as this good if hagiographic profile demonstrates).

  [Bloomberg / Peter Waldman]

• Bin Salman hasn't made it clear how he plans to put Vision 2030 in practice yet. Those details are coming in June. In their absence, the Economist dismisses the plan as a symptom of "manic optimism" from a country whose current, still-oil-dependent economy is hurting badly.

  [The Economist]

• For Saudi Arabia's women, however, some cautious optimism may be warranted. Vision 2030 promises to increase the female share of the Saudi workforce to 30 percent, and has inspired rumblings that future social changes might also be on the way.

  [Reuters / Angus McDowell]

MISCELLANEOUS

So you want to make America great again. When was it last great? Morning Consult polled 2,000 Americans to find out. [NYT / Margot Sanger-Katz]

• DC is only bigger than two states by population — but it pays more in federal taxes than 22 of them.

  [DCist / Rachel Sadon]

• In defense of ending friendships over Trump.

  [Slate / Isaac Chotiner]

• Regardless of your views on Hamilton, this critique of its treatment of its female characters, particularly Maria Reynolds, is worth considering.

  [Medium / Brigid Slipka]

• Chuck Tingle, the enigmatic presidential candidate and author of such erotica as Feeling the Bern in My Butt, explained.

  [Daily Dot / April Siese]

VERBATIM

"Everyone knows eggplant is an erection and people sext with the vegetables, but that does not make it a substitute for language." [Michael Everson to BuzzFeed News / Charlie Warzel]

• "Most career women I know follow the Fight Club rules when it comes to full-time child care. Rule number one is you don't talk about your nanny. Rule number two is you don't talk about your nanny ever even existing."

  [Elle / Katharine Zaleski]

• "When top-dollar travelers switch planes in Atlanta, New York and other cities, Delta ferries them between terminals in a Porsche, what the airline calls a 'surprise-and-delight service.'"

  [NYT / Nelson Schwartz]

• "If you’re not a white man, gay or straight, good luck getting a portrait painted before you die."

  [New Republic / Maggie Foucault]

• "The phrase ‘Judeo-Christian’ first became popular in the late 1930s, when President Franklin Roosevelt began trying to mobilise Americans against Nazism. So Judeo-Christianity was actually popularised to oppose the anti-Semitism of another predominantly Christian nation."

  [Aeon / Gene Zubovich]

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