THE WAPO WORRIES: Is an increasingly nasty Clinton-Sanders race doing lasting damage to Democrats?

KIMBERLEY STRASSEL: A Vast Email Conspiracy.

In recent weeks, not one, but two, esteemed federal judges have granted an outside group—Judicial Watch—the right to conduct discovery into the origins and handling of her private email system. It’s a reminder that Mrs. Clinton’s biggest problem this election isn’t Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump. Her problem is a 1966 statute known as the Freedom of Information Act, and the judges who enforce it.

The judges have taken unprecedented steps to resolve this case. It is exceedingly rare—almost unheard of—for a judge to allow discovery in a FOIA proceeding. This is a testament to how grave Mrs. Clinton’s email problem is. In the usual course of things, an outside group demands documents, a judge requires a federal department to hand them over, and the public learns something.

In this case—as we all know—the problem is that the State Department doesn’t have the documents. Or rather, it can’t confirm that it has them all, because State left it to Mrs. Clinton and her aides to possess them, and then to unilaterally decide what to hand over.

Read the whole thing.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: A Tragic Night, Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: The World Through SJW Eyes.

JERRY BROWN: White House Not Planning for ‘Existential Threat’ of Nuclear Attack.

But of course — Mr. Obama is confident America can “absorb” any size attack.

NEW YORK POLITICS IN A NUTSHELL: Homeless Man Removed From de Blasio Presser on Homelessness.

STAND UP TO THE MAN: Students petition Senate to stop federal overreach on sexual harassment, sexual assault.

More than 150 students have signed a letter that will be sent to senators next week requesting the Education Department not get additional funds to continue its sexual harassment and sexual assault overreach.

The students, led by Tufts University freshman Jake Goldberg, take issue with the damage being done to free speech and due process rights on college campuses in response to an overblown effort to combat sexual harassment and sexual assault. While cutting down on these two problems is noble, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights attempts have, through guidance documents known as “Dear Colleague” letters, created a dramatic broadening of the definition of those two offenses to include things that are not objectionably offensive.

“Though expressed as non-binding, this definition has still been widely adopted by our campuses all across the country,” the students wrote. “By allowing vague and far-reaching restrictions on speech to be incorporated into sexual harassment policies, [the Dear Colleague letter’s] directives have led to the deprivation of our constitutional and contractual rights to free speech and expression.

In addition, OCR’s guidelines have eviscerated due process protections for those accused of violating the new definitions of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Across the country, schools have been incentivized to treat accusations as guilt or else risk losing federal funding.

To be fair, the main reason that school haven’t fought this ruling is that they’d be attacked by favored internal constituencies. They don’t mind selling thes 45% of their students who are male down the river, so long as they don’t anger the 3% who are noisy feminists.

ROGER SIMON: Are We Now or Have We Ever Been… a Democracy? Roger asks, will the Rules Committee at the GOP Convention resemble something out of Alice In Wonderland?

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Reality-Denying Politicization of the English Language.

You may not be interested in the Gods of the Copybook Headings, but the Gods of the Copybook Headings are interested in you.

SNEAK PREVIEW — TOMORROW’S FINANCIAL MELTDOWN TODAY! About 40% of Americans with student loans aren’t paying, Wall Street Journal reports.

Don’t worry, it’s probably nothing, as I’m sure government officials said in the late 1990s as the default rates started to rise on the Clinton-created subprime mortgage market…

Related: The Coming Middle Class Anarchy.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Michelle Obama To Give Commencement Address in School System Ripe With Anti-Semitism.

WHITE HAIRED OLD MEN SAYING OFFENSIVE THINGS: Bill Clinton clashes with protesters over his crime bill.

Former President Bill Clinton repeatedly defended himself from criticism about his support of his controversial crime bill from a series of protestors during a rally for his wife’s presidential campaign.

The protestors interrupted the president’s stump speech, shouting criticism of his support of the 1994 crime bill that raised mandatory minimum sentences, with one holding up a sign that said “Clinton crime bill destroyed our communities.”

Clinton pivoted away from his typical stump speech and launched into a series of arguments about ways the crime bill did help the black community.

“You are defending the people who killed the lives you say matter,” a visibly heated Clinton exclaimed. “Tell the truth.”

In 1994, he said, “I talked to a bunch of African-American groups — they think black lives matter. [The groups said] to take this bill because people are being shot in the street by gangs. We had 13-year-old kids planning their own funerals,” Clinton said.

“Whose lives were saved that mattered?”

Related: Sanders interview causes uproar.

Bernie Sanders’s comments to the New York Daily News about banks are at the center of the biggest fight in the Democratic presidential primary to date.

Sanders has frequently used Wall Street as a cudgel against rival Hillary Clinton, but the muddy interview allowed Clinton to put him on defense over what has been his core strength.

It was a surprising turn of events and one that has led to the most bitter stretch yet in the contentious race for the Democratic nomination.

Party of youth and diversity.

ISIS OR ISLAM: WHICH BREEDS TERRORISM?

The search for those proverbial “root causes.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: “For Jews, anti-Semitism is terrifyingly real. And it came to a head at Stanford on Wednesday night.”

Read the whole thing.

ONE PIECE AT A TIME: Fighting Zika Mosquitos With Tires.

Using the appeal of tires to mosquitoes, the Canadian and Mexican researchers found a way to beat the bugs at their own game. The tires attract the mosquitos into the ovillanta, where researchers create a pseudo “pond” inside—a perfect place to lay eggs. At the bottom of it is a strip of paper to collect the eggs. Every few days, the researchers removed the strip and destroyed the eggs.

After filtering the liquid, they reintroduced it into the ovillanta, allowing the pheromone that female mosquitos release when laying eggs to attract even more mosquitoes. This pheromone, a sort of perfume that the female releases, lets others know that it’s safe to lay eggs. In other words—the longer it’s used, the more appealing and successful it becomes.

Typical bucket traps catch about 2,700 eggs per month, but this ovillanta method could catch seven times more.

A UNITER, NOT A DIVIDER! Clinton: ‘Everyone Who Violates the Law Anywhere Should Be Held Accountable.’

Related: The Server Is the Smoking Gun, Part 2,088,129.

BERNIE SANDERS: THE OLD LEFTY’S WRONG VIEW OF ISRAEL.

As someone who’s done a fair amount of editing, personally, I’d make that headline simultaneously tighter and more expansive by removing the last three words.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Warning to student journalists: ‘Asking hostile questions and videotaping’ may be treated as ‘threatening or endangering health or safety.’

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH: First marijuana tax funded scholarship application opens.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Americans spend more on Taxes than Food, Clothing, Housing, Combined.

Thus fueling the Coming Middle Class Anarchy.

DE BLASIO’S NEW YORK: Characters roaming free could find a new limited range.

New York City passed legislation Thursday that would allow the city to corral the characters and street performers who are scattered throughout Times Square.

The bill calls on the Department of Transportation to regulate pedestrian plazas in an effort to coordinate “the wide variety of sometimes conflicting civic and commercial uses of these finite spaces.”

Council members agreed to allow the controlling of the entertainers who gather at the “Crossroads of the World” looking for tips — including Elmos, Cookie Monsters, topless women and mixtape artists — with plans to gather them in tighter, rectangular areas on these pedestrian plazas that allow for traffic to move around them.

It’s a long way down from broken windows policing to Cookie Monster corralling.

NOT TO MENTION, FOR HARSHING BARRY’S MELLOW: Senior Intel Analysts Say They Were Kicked Out For Contradicting Obama’s ISIS Agenda.

That report is made even more damning when placed alongside the quotes that Bret Baier assembled from his interviews with Obama’s first three defense secretaries:

AWKWARD: Bill Clinton Gets Into Heated Exchange With Black Lives Matter Protester.

“Here’s what happened,” Clinton said. “Let’s just tell the whole story.”

“I had an assault weapons ban in it [the crime bill]. I had money for inner-city kids, for out of school activities. We had 110,000 police officers so we could keep people on the street, not in these military vehicles, and the police would look like the people they were policing. We did all that. And [Joe] Biden [then senator and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee] said, you can’t pass this bill, the Republicans will kill it, if you don’t put more sentencing in it.”

“I talked to a lot of African-American groups,” Clinton continued. “They thought black lives matter. They said take this bill, because our kids are being shot in the street by gangs. We have 13-year-old kids planning their own funerals.”

Throughout the spirited defense of his policy, Clinton continued to be interrupted, and he repeatedly seemed to single out one protester.

There’s no small amount of schadenfreude in watching Bill Clinton attempt defend his relatively moderate record without sabotaging Hillary’s leftwing campaign.

MAYBE REPUBLICANS SHOULD TRY DOING THIS IN MANHATTAN: Going door to door, a Los Angeles-based activist group tries to reduce prejudice against transgender people. A new study finds that it works.

IT’S DEJA CHOOM ALL OVER AGAIN! Is Bernie Sanders your stoner college roommate? After he fumbles his way through a Daily News interview, there seems to be far less to the socialist populist than meets the eye.

Does America really want two stoner college roommates as presidents in a row?