You'd be surprised at how many times you can drive the price down with a bit of tactful negotiating.

And the success rate is shockingly high: 89% of people who have haggled were rewarded at least once, the Consumer Reports National Research Center found.

But too many of us refuse to ask for a better deal. From 2010 to 2013, only 48% of people actually tried to bargain, that same survey found.

It can never hurt to ask, especially with these 15 costs:

Everyone doesn't pay the same price for repairs. According to Dina Gachman, author of "Brokenomics: 50 Ways to Live the Dream on a Dime," people don't bargain nearly as much as they should.

Gachman recalls a time in which she was laid off, unemployed, and had run into some issues with her laptop. After she was told it would cost $250 just to have her laptop checked out by someone, she called the company's 1-800 number and used what she calls "trigger words" to lower the repair cost. These words include "inconvenience," "corporate responsibility," "loyal customer," and "please."

Your tuition could be lower if you attend the same college as your sibling.

If you're a member of one of those families in which all the siblings end up attending the same school, personal-finance blogger Len Penzo points out that some colleges are known to give discounted tuition or financial aid when multiple family members attend.

No siblings? Forbes suggests leveraging a high GPA for more scholarship money instead.

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15 costs you shouldn't accept without putting up a fight

These jobs are always in high demand, and the best part: you can name your price and create your own schedule! Post an ad on craigslist, or use your friends' and family's connections to get your name out there.

List your apartment on Airbnb or another rental site, and make some easy cash by staying at a friends and renting out your place for the weekend.

Just as you can rent out your full apartment or house, you can also post a free room (or even just your couch!) on sites like Craigslist or Airbnb. This way you can split your living expenses -- and maybe even make a new friend!

Now here's a weird one: Donate your hair, breast milk, or even plasma for a profit. According to Grifols, if you're healthy and weigh above 110 pounds, you can earn up to $200 a month donating your plasma to life-saving medicine.

Sign up to participate in medical tests and clinical trials.

Universities constantly need volunteers to test new medicines and treatments -- and because the pool of willing participants is limited, there is typically a large compensation for being a guinea pig.

Participate in a focus group

Companies and organizations will pay you to join a focus group. These can be conducted in person, online, or via phone. You will most likely be reimbursed in cash or gift cards -- plus, you often get to test out fun new products!

Similar to focus groups, you can get paid to give your time and insights on an online questionairre. Plus, you can do this from the comfort of your couch.

Although we don't necessarily recommend this option, there is a very high demand for healthy sperm donors. Keep in mind some of the obvious drawbacks, but sperm donation is non-invasive and highly compensated.

Crowdfunding allows you to raise monetary contributions from a large group of people who want to support your venture. Post your project or idea on a crowdfund site, like GoFundMe.com, and see the cash pile up.

If you're qualified, post an ad online or on a community board to tutor children on their school courses or for the upcoming SATs.

Capitalize your free time (on the weekends or after work hours) by working a part-time job. A bartender, waiter, or Uber driver are all great options for an additional source of income -- and great tips!

Take this suggestion at your own risk: If you're staying within legal limits, buy tickets low and sell high as an effective way to source additional money. (Just make sure to check your state and local laws first!)

You can sell anything on the internet these days... including your companionship! Get paid to go on a platonic outing for a few hours and enjoy your afternoon with a new friend.

Rent out your parking spot

Make sure to check with your landlord first, but if you have the option to park your own car further away, lend or share your parking space or driveway for the hour, day, or even month!

This one takes patience before a big pay out, but keep a spare jar or drawer for loose change that you usually toss anyway. It will keep it all in one place -- and those quarters do add up!

If you have a knack for arts & crafts, create jewelry or other handmade gifts to sell on sites filled with other thrifty vendors like Etsy.

This effective strategy requires low effort with a high return. Post photos of your used or non-used items on sites like eBay or Craigslist, and let the bidding begin!

Sell clutter you've been meaning to get rid of right in your front yard. This simple tactic is convenient, and guarantees a wad of cash right to your pocket.

This tip may seem obvious, but is often overlooked: Take your recently-purchased items that are laying around back to the store for either store credit or a full refund.

Recycle scrap metal and cans

Collect cans and scrap metal out your own garbage, basement, and street and bring to your local recycler to exchange your findings for money.

Your mortgage is fair game. Mortgage rates are fair game for bargaining — with a little legwork. "Shop around, get quotes, make sure your credit score is stellar, and you should be able to talk about lowering things like processing fees," Gachman writes.

If you have strong credit, use that as leverage. A credit score is one of the most important factors in determining your mortgage rate.

If you watch TV, your cable is worth bargaining for.

According to Gachman, "There is no shame in haggling with behemoths like Time Warner Cable or Verizon."

She suggests calling and asking for a manager to discuss your rates, or even threatening to leave your current provider for another one with a better offer — as long as you're willing to follow through.

"If your request is within reason, they'll usually make it happen," Gachman writes. "The phone reps are humans with beating hearts, not corporate drones."

It can't hurt to try — and you may find that negotiating lower rates is simpler than you originally thought.

Use those unsolicited offers to your advantage.

Stop throwing out unsolicited credit-card offers, and instead start using them to bargain for a better interest rate from your current credit-card company.

Penzo suggests simply picking up the phone and asking whether they'll match their competitors' prices.

Yes, they're intimidating — but bargain with them anyway.

Not everyone knows exactly how to go about bargaining with a car salesperson. After all, they do this for a living, and chances are you don't. Gachman says that to throw sellers off their game, you should "never, ever act impressed with anything they show you. Apathy is key here."

She also recommends asking for some extras with the car: "You should ask them to cover the cost of any registration and DMV fees, and try to get them to throw in the first month's payment as well (as long as you're putting money down). If they balk, in a very firm tone reply, 'Well, I don't want to have to walk out of here, but ...'" she writes. "They definitely don't want you to walk off; they want you to drive off — in the car they've just sold you."

Also, refresh yourself on common tricks car salespeople employ before you head to the dealership.

Ask for more than just the tires.

If you decide to shop locally, Wise Bread suggests checking prices online first because smaller shops will sometimes match or even beat online prices.

Don't be shy, either. Len Penzo says it is acceptable to ask for extras such as balancing, mounting, stems, and an extended warranty.

Did you get the best price possible for that furniture?

Successful bargaining for furniture depends largely on where you're shopping. Gachman warns that you should not expect to successfully bargain for furniture if you're shopping at chains such as Target or Macy's.

"If it's a privately owned shop they'll usually work with you, unless you're being ridiculous," she writes. "Don't ask to pay $100 for a $4,000 couch."

Your rent is not entirely out of your control.

According to MainStreet, you're more likely to get a better price if you rent from a smaller company or an individual and if you pay your rent in advance. Sometimes offering services, such as taking on yard work or small repairs yourself, can help, too.

MainStreet also writes that one of your most powerful bargaining tools when it comes to rent is your ability to walk away from a deal that you don't think is worth it.

Your doctor visits may not cost as much if you pay in cash.

As expensive as medical and hospital bills are, they're open to negotiation — as long as you take a stand within 90 days of your service.

In fact, there are even professionals who negotiate with hospitals on patients' behalf. You can find them on sites such as Medical Billing Advocates of America.

According to Next Avenue, most cash discounts come from agreeing to pay your medical bill all at once, and even if you can't get a discount, you can also try to get more time to pay your bill. Next Avenue has a solid list of strategies to negotiate a medical bill.

Remind the manager you could always join another gym.

When it comes to gyms, managers realize that there's a lot of competition and that you could just choose to exercise on your own for free. Gachman advises using both of those facts to your advantage when asking whether a gym manager will reduce the cost of registration or the monthly fee.

"If they're being tough, tell them you're going to march, jog, do plyometric hops, or sprint over to a rival gym," she writes. "That should do the trick."

You may have the best luck negotiating in March, when gyms are eager to make up for waning memberships, MarketWatch says.

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15 costs you shouldn't accept without putting up a fight

1. Clear your browser history

Some retailers might sneakily increase prices based on your browsing patterns and demand - so make sure to always clear your history and cookies before shopping!

2. Use an alternate email address

When you log in to a retailer's site with a new email address, retailers will often welcome you as a new customer with exciting new promotions and discounts.

3. Note price changes throughout the week

Another pro tip: Prices and deals can fluctuate based on the day of the week. For instance, if you're purchasing a flight, monitor prices for around a week to see if they take a dip on any particular day before purchasing.

4. Let items linger in your cart

Here's a hack: Add items to your cart, but let them sit for 24 hours before purchasing. The retailer might attempt to lure you back with additional discounts.

5. Check out multiple sites

Do some research! Don't settle for the first price you see - poke around on a search engine and find the best deal.

6. Bargain with customer service

Use customer service to your advantage. If you ask (politely!) about an expired coupon, you'll often find yourself pleasantly surprised by an extension or new code!

Try this shopping hack - don't buy that shiny, new toy right away. Step away for a few hours, and if you find yourself itching to go back and click 'purchase', then you know you won't regret your investment!

Take advantage of free shipping! If you are a few dollars below the free shipping price point, add a low-cost filler item you need anyway (like socks!) and make the math work out in your favor.

Keep the mark-up in mind.

Know that when you walk into a jewelry store — whether private or a chain — the products in there are usually marked up somewhere between 100% and 300%, according to Penzo.

With that in mind, bargain away, but don't forget to do your homework first. Wise Bread advises knowing what the going rates are for the piece you want and determining your own budget in advance.

Pick up the phone and ask.

According to Gachman: "As long as you're not constantly late, you can usually get a late fee reversed, whether you're asking your credit card company, your bank, or your cable company."

She advises emphasizing that your late payment is a "one-time thing" and that it won't happen again.

And then, to make sure you stick to your word, try paying your bills before they're actually due.

If you don't get a discount on the mattress, ask about other extras.

"Most mattress brands typically come with enormous markups. One notable exception: Tempur-Pedic," Penzo explains.

So when it comes to mattress shopping, you should always try.

If they won't budge on the price of the mattress, ask for extras like free shipping, a complimentary box spring, old mattress disposal, pillows, or a bed frame, especially if you're paying with cash, Penzo says.

It's worth it to ask for open-box items.

If you're looking for bigger ticket items, like a TV or electronics, ask if they have an open box or a display item they could sell you for cheaper.

Similarly, you can always negotiate the price of used items, whether you're shopping at a thrift shop, garage sale, or second-hand clothing store. SEE ALSO: I negotiated the price of everything I bought for a week — and it worked half the time

Summary: You'd be surprised at how many times you can drive the price down with a bit of tactful negotiating -- especially with these 15 fees.


Did you think How I Met Your Mother‘s Ted Mosby had the emotional maturity of a toddler? In a new video from Mumbai-based comedy channel Romedy Now he is a toddler, which makes him not only tolerable, but downright adorable.

The video recasts the entire crew from How I Met Your Mother as adorable half-pints looking for love among the fingerpaints and fishsticks at a pint-sized tea party hosted at a kid-friendly version of MacLaren’s, which is not strange at all. Fans will note that baby Barney has as much swagger as his full-grown counterpart.

Sadly, the creators did not use the opportunity provided by the new and far more adorable cast to re-imagine the series’ fan-frustrating ending. Coming up with an ending that will appease fans who stuck with How I Met Your Mother for nine seasons will have to be left to fan fiction.

Summary: Those crazy kids—acted out by crazy kids


believes he had every right to track his ex-wife ... so says his current fiancee, who insists the famous "Pregnant Man" LEGALLY GPS'd the woman's whereabouts.

threatened to take off with Thomas' kids ... he secretly placed the GPS tracker on the car she was driving.

We're told Thomas did his own legal research and concluded GPSing her was fair game under Arizona law. He put the tracker on 2 years ago but she didn't discover it until recently.

Turns out he was right ... he was allowed to put the device on the car 2 years ago because at the time he was the registered owner.

But Thomas transferred title to Nancy more than a year ago, and at that point cops say keeping the device on the whip is plain 'ol criminal stalking ... which is why he was arrested.

Summary: Thomas Beatie believes he had every right to track his ex-wife ... so says his current fiancee, who insists the famous "Pregnant Man" LEGALLY GPS'd the…


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, "The Queen of Tejano," is finally getting a Hollywood Walk of Fame star, and no one is happier than

In fact, the actress, who is also receiving her own star this year, pointed out several similarities between the two when she paid tribute to the late singer in an Instagram post on Thursday.

"I could never have dreamed that one day I would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But even more ironic is that the same year I receive my star, so does my idol, my inspiration, my fellow Tejana, my fellow Corpus Christi native, Selena Quintanilla," Longoria, 41, wrote.

While many believe the former

star to be their hometown hero, Selena was Longoria's. "She was the reason I even dared to dream that a better life was possible. And that that life didn't have to distance you from where you came from," she continued in her post.

"So many people become famous and leave a place without ever crediting it with the role it played in shaping their lives. Selena was proud of being from Corpus Christi, Texas. And that made me proud to be from Corpus," Longoria added.

Twenty-one years following Selena's tragic death, she will be posthumously receiving the honor. The beloved singer was killed by her fan club's president on March 31, 1995. She was 24.

Longoria concluded her message: "She blazed the way for all of us and I will be forever grateful to her for not only that but for the pure joy I felt when I got to see her perform. Her smile, her charisma, her beauty put every single person who watched her under a spell. Thank you Selena. I know I will receive my star on the Walk of Fame because you dared to dream it first."

In another walk of fame post, Longoria wrote, "What makes this even sweeter is that I stand side by side with my idol Selena Quintanilla! Corpus girls representing!"

Summary: "She was the reason I even dared to dream that a better life was possible," Longoria wrote on Instagram


Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods

By Linda Marx and Tim Nudd

03/22/2010 AT 11:00 AM EDT

is not happy in her marriage to

and not inclined to support his comeback – or present a unified family front – by attending the Masters in April, a source close to Nordegren tells PEOPLE.

The source says Nordegren, 30, is focused only on the children – not on Woods, 34, or his career. She has her own room in their Windermere, Fla., home, and often sleeps in a house nearby.

"Elin is going through the motions of family life only to keep the children well grounded," the source says. "She suffered through the pain of her parents divorcing and doesn't want to do that to her kids. But she is not happy in the marriage. The trust is gone."

By day, she may seem to be playing the role of wife. She was even spotted this weekend spending two nights on Woods's yacht Privacy with only a nanny and son Charlie and daughter Sam. Not surprising, the source says, since "she wears a chastity belt made of spikes. They are not living together as a couple. They are putting on a charade for the children."

The source does not believe Nordegren will attend next month's Masters, where Woods will make his comeback after four months off following his sex scandal. "Elin wants to stay away from Augusta and not get involved in the frenzy of the Masters. By not going, she sends a signal that she is staying with Tiger only because of the children. They come first."

The source says Nordegren did contact top California divorce lawyer Sorrell Trope but did not hire him, and is now dealing with lawyers closer to home in Florida. "[Woods's] behavior in the coming weeks will tell us quite a bit," the source says. "If he falls even slightly one more time, she could still file for divorce despite her interest in holding the family together."

this weekend – his first since the scandal broke around Thanksgiving – Woods admitted to having lived "a life of a lie." He added: "You start coming to the truth of who you really are, and that can be very ugly."

Summary: Plus, a source says she and Tiger are "putting on a charade for the children" and "she wears a chastity belt of spikes"


A summit is underway in the Nigerian capital Abuja to discuss ways to put an end to 7 years of Boko Haram violence.

The armed group has killed thousands of people and displaced millions more. It's also kidnapped hundreds of students and caused chaos right across Nigeria.

Boko Haram has now pledged allegiance to ISIL and is reportedly sending fighters to Libya.

The UN Security Council has expressed its concern calling this development "alarming". The UN's also backing Nigerian president Muhhammadu Buhari - as he hosts a security summit on the fight against the armed group.

Several West African leaders, along with the French president Francois Hollande are in Abuja. But what does it take to defeat Boko Haram? And are western countries doing enough to help? Presenter: Fauzia Ibrahim

Clement Nwankwo - Director at the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre in Nigeria.

Adesoji Adeniyi - Security Analyst on African Affairs.

Martin Ewi - Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies.

Summary: Nigeria is hosting a security summit to address fight against Boko Haram.


Republican nominee Donald Trump hinted at a new world order if he becomes president, saying the United States, under his leadership, might not come to the defense of some NATO members if Russia were to attack them.

Trump said he would decide whether to protect the Baltic republics against Russian aggression based on whether those countries “have fulfilled their obligations to us.”

He made the comments in an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday, ahead of his speech to formally accept the Republican nomination for president late Thursday. Trump’s remarks about U.S. obligations under NATO to come to the aid of other members of the 28-nation alliance are in line with his views questioning the United States’ global role.

In 2014, the 28-member alliance created a rapid-reaction force to protect the most vulnerable NATO members against a confrontation with Russia. Last week, President Barack Obama pledged unwavering commitment to defending Europe, adding that “in good times and in bad, Europe can count on the United States.”

NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a military alliance of European and North American democracies created after World War II to strengthen international cooperation as a counter-balance to the rise of the Soviet Union.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign was quick to pounce on Trump’s statements.

“The president is supposed to be the leader of the free world. Donald Trump apparently doesn’t even believe in the free world,” Clinton senior policy adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement shortly after the interview was published.

“Ronald Reagan would be ashamed. Harry Truman would be ashamed. Republicans, Democrats and independents who help build NATO into the most successful military alliance in history would all come to the same conclusion: Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit and fundamentally ill-prepared to be our commander in chief,” Sullivan added.

Trump’s running mate, Gov. Mike Pence, was on the defensive early Thursday, telling Fox News that he is confident the Republican nominee would stand by America’s NATO allies, but insisted that those countries “must pay their fair share.”

Pence added that a Trump administration would tell U.S. allies “the time has come for them and for their citizens to begin to carry the financial costs of these international obligations.”

Trump has publicly welcomed praise from Russian President Vladimir Putin, telling MSNBC in December that, “when people call you brilliant, that’s always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.” When the interviewer pointed out charges that Putin kills opponents and that he invaded neighboring Ukraine, Trump responded that Putin is “running his country, and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country.”

Trump also told The Times that he would not criticize Turkey for cracking down on political opponents and restricting civil liberties following last week’s attempted coup. Of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump said: “I give great credit to him for being able to turn that around. … Some people say that it was staged, you know that. I don’t think so.”

The U.S. has no “right to lecture” Turkey and other countries when “people are shooting policemen in cold blood,” Trump said.

With decades in business and no prior political experience, Trump cast the projection of American military might abroad in economic terms.

For example, he said it might not be necessary to station American troops abroad, though he agreed it’s preferable.

“If we decide we have to defend the United States, we can always deploy” troops from the U.S., Trump told the newspaper, “and it will be a lot less expensive.”

Summary: It would be a radical shift in U.S. foreign policy.


CLEVELAND/NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) - At times, the speech was drowned out by the cheering crowds in the arena of the Republican National Convention. Social media crowned a new political star. Some Republicans said they were seeing the U.S. president they longed for.

It was Ivanka Trump's night.

GOP convention night 4: Ivanka Trump opens for father

The eldest daughter of New York businessman-turned-presidential nominee Donald Trump almost stole the show on Thursday night with a speech about her father that roused a packed Cleveland convention hall, broadcast to millions.

SEE ALSO: Ivanka Trump makes a pitch to women voters in introducing her father

On Google, there were more searches for Ivanka Trump than for her father.

The 34-year old businesswoman and former model talked about her father's yearning to improve America, childcare, equal pay for women and other issues close to her heart, with a poise some found befitting of the White House.

"Okay, why isn't @IvankaTrump running for President?" television actor Anson Mount said in a Twitter post.

See Ivanka make her impressive speech:

Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump, speaks during the final session at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump is greeted by his daughter Ivanka before formally accepting the nomination at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump, speaks during the final session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump greets his daughter Ivanka as he arrives to speak during the final session at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump, speaks during the final session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks on stage after his daughter, Ivanka Trump, introduced him during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 21: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (Center-L) stand with his son Barron Trump, and wife Melania Trump (2nd-L) as Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence (Center-R) stands with his wife Karen Pence (2nd-R) and daughter Charlotte Pence (R), and Ivanka Trump looks on, at the end of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, takes the stage during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Thursday, July 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Ivanka Trump, daughter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Thursday, July 21, 2016. (AP Photo/John Locher)

"One of the best speeches - if not the best speech - tonight," said Chris Herrod, a 50-year-old delegate from Utah who had worked for Trump's vanquished rival Ted Cruz, the U.S. senator from Texas.

One of Trump's five children, Ivanka was chosen to introduce her father, who then officially accepted the Republican Party's presidential nomination. Since Trump announced his intention to run for the White House last year, she has been steadily drawn into her father's presidential campaign along with her 35-year-old husband Jared Kushner.

Watch Ivanka's entire speech below:

The couple both take part in the Trump campaign's "family meeting" each Monday morning, helping make decisions about spending and strategy, according to a source familiar with the meetings.

Among the children, Ivanka is the one who is often the bridge to women voters and seems to have the mission of selling her father's softer side. When she is not involved in the campaign, she helps to run the family's sprawling business empire from its New York City headquarters.

RELATED: Ivanka Trump - More than Donald Trump's daughter

This week in Cleveland she has been everywhere, lobbying for her father with delegates and donors, appearing in television interviews and leaving a trail of picture-taking fans in her wake. One man, a Republican delegate in Cleveland, carried a placard all week around the convention that read: "Ivanka, 2024. First Female President."

Her star turn in Cleveland was one of the top trending topics on Twitter late on Thursday, with about 121 tweets mentioning her name posted every minute. Overall sentiment on her was more positive than negative by a ratio of 3 to 1, according to analytics firm Zoomph.

SEE ALSO: Google searches for '3rd party candidate 2016' spiked by insane amount during RNC

Ivanka missed her one chance to date to vote for her father: she had not changed her party registration from Democrat to Republican in time to cast a ballot in the April 19 New York primary election.

She more than compensated on Thursday night, some convention delegates said.

"She gave us enormous insight into him and the kind of man he is," said retiree Fernando C. deBaca, a 78-year-old New Mexico delegate. "She's (an) enormously capable young lady, as is her brother. We're going to see the beginning of a dynasty here."

RELATED: See social reactions to Ivanka's speech

Social Reactions to Ivanka Trump's RNC Speech

You could not ask for a better keynote to a @GOPconvention than @IvankaTrump cc @realDonaldTrump #RNCinCLE

Ivanka Trump doesn't vote by party labels. She votes her conscience. And that's... good? I think? #RNCinCLE

Ivanka. Outstanding. I do believe this is the birth of the next Presidential dynasty. The next woman for the White House won't be Clinton

in the 18 months i spent around donald trump i never once saw ivanka trump in his office and i never heard him once mention her name.

Dear @IvankaTrump, Can you show us the equal pay for women part of the @GOP platform? We have time… Sincerely, The Voters

This speech is great. What Ivanka is saying is great. But her dad's running. And her dad doesn't believe in any of this.

Ivanka Trump did not mention Hillary Clinton once during her RNC speech.

Ah anyone watching has to admit @IvankaTrump is killing it. #RNC

Equal pay and childcare. Ivanka Trump's intro of her dad at the RNC is ripped right from the Dems playbook. Can this close the gender gap?

Summary: The eldest daughter of New York businessman-turned-presidential nominee Donald Trump almost stole the show on Thursday night .


As protesters swore at each other in rage on the streets of Cleveland during the first day of the GOP Convention, there was one point on which everyone could agree: the other side had been hoodwinked.

“Republicans have brains, Democrats are brainwashed,” says farm equipment dealer Chris Jenkins, 32. Wearing a Hillary for Prison T-shirt and sunglasses (wraparound), he said he thought anti-Trump demonstrators were stuck in a “skewed sense of reality” so “set in stone” that they refused to listen to reason: “Republicans can conversate and Democrats can’t,” he concluded.

A few blocks away, a truck driver from Milwaukee mounted a concrete police barrier and issued a rebuttal.

“Those people are misled. They believe that the reason for their fear is immigrants, peoples and communities that they’re unfamiliar with,” Kas Schwerdtfeger, a UPS union worker said. Wearing a Teamsters t-shirt and sunglasses (not wraparound) he said that Trump had tricked Americans who had been hurt by a transforming economy. “Trump speaks to their fear.”

Rarely have two political visions been so at odds in an election. At the center of two rallies in Cleveland on Monday was Trump, who inspired loyal followers and an outraged opposition to congregate to raise their voices across the city. Each side, separated by ideology and often race, seemed to view the other side with a mix of compassion and contempt.

“It’s like being retarded,” says Tim Lang, a 59-year old transcendental meditationist, of the “uninformed” and “brainwashed” anti-Trump protesters. “In terms of being unable to decipher the propaganda,” he clarifies.

“If they really think about the problems they have as a matter of class and not of race, they wouldn’t chose Donald Trump,” says Leonel Mejia, an anti-Trump demonstrator with the Minnesota Immigration Rights Action Committee. “History has divided us by race in this country and they don’t understand that,” he adds. “They’re being blind.”

The two rallies were planned to inaugurate the first day of the Republican convention and were among the bigger gatherings expected this week. They remained peaceful throughout, despite fears that Ohio’s open-carry laws and the recent police shootings would lead to violence.

Around two hundred Trump’s loyalists met at a park on the Cuyahoga River to hear speeches from Roger Stone, a political operative running a Trump super PAC, British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos, Jan Morgan and other Trump allies. A few blocks away at the Cleveland mall, several hundred anti-Trump protesters met before marching in a loop around Cleveland’s downtown near the Quicken Loans Arena, where Republicans are holding their convention.

The anti-Trump protesters included more than forty liberal groups, from Black Lives Matter to the United States Marxist Leninist Organization. They chanted slogans against Trump and blamed him for inciting racial and anti-immigrant fears.

Police from outside Cleveland came to assist in monitoring the protests, including groups from Michigan, St. Louis and Akron, Ohio. Disciplined cops sometimes outnumbered the protesters, at times standing between opposing groups. At one point, a line of mounted police stood between the pro-Trump rally and a splinter group of opposition protesters who had wandered down to the park where they gathered. But the only results of that near-confrontation were piles of manure left on the street.

For both sides, it seemed that their ideological opposites existed in a parallel universe that they were too gullible to escape.

In one case, a Trump supporter considered himself awakened from what he now sees as a cult of liberal propaganda. John Porter, 52, voted twice for Barack Obama but now supports Donald Trump. “He talked a good game and I bought into it,” he says of Obama. “I wasn’t informed enough.” Now, he despises the president for what he sees as not supporting police officers at a time of heightened racial tensions with law enforcement. “It makes me sick,” he says. “I wish his plane would run out of gas.”

Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations held a press conference before the rally and marched alongside the anti-Trump protesters. Trump supporters were being misled, Awad said in a brief interview. “There is legitimate fear in our society among those who are worried about national security we owe it to them to inform them, to enlighten them about the facts,” he said. “Donald Trump and others have exploited them in an ugly fashion.”

“I could scream at you all day and you won’t listen to what I say,” says Chris Jenkins, the Trump supporter. “But if I tell you, you might listen. But these people don’t want to talk.”

Indeed, there were moments when regular discourse seemed to break down. In one combustive moment in the mid-afternoon, a squad of self-proclaimed street preachers walked over to the anti-Trump protestors and began to yell provocative slogans. “You’re a bunch of rejects from the 1960s,” one man said through a megaphone. “Allah is Satan,” said another’s T-shirt.

The anti-Trump protesters rallied to yell “Black Lives Matter.” “You don’t believe that,” a man with the megaphone shouted back, not identifiably part of either the pro-Trump or anti-Trump contingent. “You’re a poop stain on the diaper of America!” he said.

Anti-Trump protester Anovia Thibeaux shouted back on her own speaker: “I’m going to f— your daughter, sir!”

It was perhaps the most striking moment of dissonance in a day when both sides seemed to talk past each other.

Even its participants recognized it. “It’s all mouth garbage,” said Thibeaux sheepishly.

This article originally appeared on Time.com.

Summary: Each side seemed to view the other side with a mix of compassion and contempt.


Ted Cruz called Donald Trump a “sniveling coward” and told him to leave his wife “the hell alone” on Thursday after Trump retweeted an unflattering photo of his spouse, Heidi Cruz.

“It’s not easy to tick me off. I don’t get angry often,” Cruz told reporters while campaigning in Wisconsin. “But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that’ll do it every time. Donald you are a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.”

“Our spouses and our children are off bounds,” Cruz warned. “It is not acceptable for a big loud New York bully to…

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Summary: In response to a photo Trump retweeted of Cruz's wife


"Life stopped. We lost our home. It got bombed. Burned down. We couldn’t go to school because civil war started. We were about to be persecuted or killed," explained the elder of the two.

He added: "I really have hope that other people from my community who are seeking help as I do, have the opportunity to come here and start a new life, as we are starting to do."

His younger brother added that he, "wants people to know that the image of ISIS does not represent us".

The community help the homeless Photo: Islamic Relief USA

The Day of Dignity event took place as Seattle declared a state of emergency in response to the city's homeless crisis.

During the event, hot food, hygiene parcels, sleeping bags and free haircuts were given to the homeless.

A veteran standing in line told KUOW: "The whole reason veterans fought for what they did is so that people like that could come here."

Reaching out to the community Photo: Islamic Relief USA

The Obama administration announced in September that 10,000 Syrians will be allowed entry to the US next year, however many states are opposed to the move.

Another Syrian refugee has also won praise after 'paying back' German kindness by preparing food for the homeless.

Summary: Islamic Relief USA created a Day of Dignity event to help those who are   homeless and hungry


Asian markets rose sharply Monday. In China the Shanghai Composite climbed 2.5% to 2,899 and in Hong Kong the Hang Seng gained 1.3% to end the day at 23,121. In Japan the Nikkei 225 Index advanced 1.1% to close at 10,726.

Investors piled into Chinese stocks after news broke that China's GDP surpassed Japan's for 2010, making the People's Republic the world's second largest economy after the U.S. with a total value of $5.9 trillion.

-- a year-on-year jump of 44%, according to

. Numbers for both imports and exports were up, but left the trade surplus down by 54% for the month as compared with last year. There are also high hopes that data out tomorrow will show the inflation rate that has nearly doubled the price of garlic and ginger is finally receding.

Chinese cement makers surged among optimism that construction projects will continue to proliferate. Anhui Conch soared 8.2%. Metals producers also gained, with Jiangxi Copper rallying 5.7% and Zijin Mining advancing 3%.

Shares in highway companies rocketed ahead with Anhui Expressway, Hauxin Cement and Shenzhen Expressway all hitting the 10% daily maximum. Airlines also soared with both Air China and China Southern Airlines jumping 3.9% and China Eastern Airlines up 3.1%. Hainan Airlines rose 2.8%.

Hong Kong-listed shares of cement maker Anhui Conch raced higher as well, gaining 8.6% in today's trading. China National Building Material zipped up 6.9%, cashing in on optimism about continued development in China.

Other big winners included Great Wall Motor, which is predicting higher profits once its bookkeeping for 2010 is completed. Shares raced up 6.1%. Other car makers also gained with Dongfeng Motor Group rocketing up 9.3% and Brilliance China motoring up 5.6%. Brilliance deals in minibuses and BMW, for which it officially manufactures versions of the 3-series and 5-series, as well as other BMW sedans. Byd, Warren Buffet's big bet, advanced 2.4%, but shares are still worth less than half of what they were at their peak in April.

Among Hong Kong retailers, Esprit climbed 5.1% and shoe company Belle International, gained 5.2%. Li & Fung bucked the trend, losing 0.9% in today's trading.

In Japan, shares also rose despite the country's economy officially sliding into third place. Investors focused on the fact that GDP losses were less than expected. Winners included Honda, which jumped 2.8%, Toyota, which gained 2.5%, Nissan, which rose 1.4% and Mazda, which added 0.5%. Hino Motors, a maker of trucks and buses shot up 4.3%.

Electronics exporters were on the rise despite a decline in overall exports for the quarter. Pioneer shot up 6.1%, Olympus racked up a 6.1% gain and Sony gained 1.3%. Fanuc, the industrial robotics firm, surged 3.8%.


From his Minimalist earthworks created in remote places in the 1960s to Pop-Surrealist public sculptures for urban settings in the 1990s and 2000s, Dennis Oppenheim was dedicated to the proposition that art should be open to the world rather than cloistered in galleries and museums. So it is appropriate that he should be this year’s featured artist at the Storm King Art Center in the Hudson Valley, where sculptures by Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt, Louise Nevelson, Alice Aycock and scores of other artists dot the beautiful, 500-acre landscape of hills, fields and forest.

“Dennis Oppenheim: Terrestrial Studio” presents seven outdoor works and a selection of drawings, collages and smaller sculptures indoors. It’s too limited a show to do justice to Mr. Oppenheim’s extraordinarily prolific 45-year career. But seeing his works from the late ’60s into the 21st century at Storm King amid so many other 20th-century sculptures occasions a stimulating lesson in the history of American art and society.

In his early, ephemeral earthworks, some of which are dryly documented by collages of photographs and maps in the center’s indoor galleries, Mr. Oppenheim (1938-2011) sought to integrate art and nature, an ambition he shared with his friend Robert Smithson, among others.

Outdoors in this vein is “Wishing the Mountains Madness,” which Mr. Oppenheim first made in 1977 in rural Montana. It consists of a random distribution of four-foot-wide plywood stars — some painted white, others pale shades of red or blue — on a grassy, two-acre hillside. While nodding to the nation’s bicentennial of the previous year, the sculpture figuratively connects earth and starry heavens, urging a harmonic, cosmic perspective redolent of the Aquarian dreams of the 1960s, Mr. Oppenheim’s formative years.

Conveniently near the star field are more recent works by other artists carrying on the tradition of merging art and nature: Richard Serra’s “Schunnemunk Fork” (1990-91), which consists of three slabs of steel embedded in the hillside; Andy Goldsworthy’s “Storm King Wall” (1997-98), a stone wall snaking through a grove of trees, across a pond and up another hillside; and Maya Lin’s “Storm King Wavefield” (2007-2008), a vast meadow sculpted into a grass-covered pattern of dune shapes.

The earliest Oppenheim piece in the exhibition is “Dead Furrow,” a construction conceived in 1967 and based on a print he made that year. (The puzzling title, a farming term, refers to the double-wide furrow left in the middle of a field or between two plowed strips.) Reflecting Minimalist style of its time, it’s a truncated pyramid made of plywood covered by a crusty, gray concretelike substance and surrounded by rows of half-buried, turquoise 12-inch-diameter PVC pipes. The whole structure resembles a tomb and a military bunker. A ladder leads to a rooftop platform from which visitors may survey the surrounding terrain and contemplate the immensity of the world, or imagine zombies shambling out from the distant woods.

In contrast to the baleful appearance of “Dead Furrow,” Mr. Oppenheim’s later works tend to project cheerful moods, as does “Architectural Cactus Grove” (2006), a group of six jaunty, cartoonlike cactuses made of industrial stainless steel and plastic elements. “Electric Kiss” (2008) is a walk-in hut shaped like a Hershey’s Kiss made of half-round, colored acrylic ribs tied to a steel frame. It gleams and sparkles in the sunlight and invites lovers to enter and osculate.

The exhibition’s most fully realized and appealing piece is “Entrance to a Garden” (2002), a 16-foot-tall geometric representation of an empty suit jacket, shirt and tie made of semitransparent, perforated metal panels framed by steel beams painted blue. An arched tunnel through the structure’s midsection leads to a lovely small garden with a ground of loose, white pebbles and a perimeter of pointy-topped evergreen bushes arranged in the outline of a shirt lying flat. Two squat, concrete cylinders representing buttons serve as seats. This piece has a sweet metaphorical resonance, as the jacket, shirt and tie suggest the mechanized life of the salaryman, while the garden provides a sacred space for meditation.

There’s an interesting back story to “Entrance to a Garden” and to a small sculpture of a shirt indoors, a 35-inch model from 2008. As the exhibition’s organizer and Storm King’s curator, Nora R. Lawrence, tells it in her exhibition catalog essay, Mr. Oppenheim was commissioned to create a public sculpture for Milwaukee’s General Mitchell International Airport in 2000. It was to be a giant representation of a shirt made of metal and blue glass installed on a parking garage’s outside, upper-level corner. People would have been able to enter it and therein find a small exercise room equipped with barbells and weight-lifting machines.

But it never got made. In 2003, Scott Walker, then the county executive, who would become better known as the budget-slashing, union-busting governor of Wisconsin, canceled the commission. That decision, Ms. Lawrence wrote, was “based on his determination that the imagery of the work, the blue shirt, was mocking the largely working-class community of Milwaukee.” Nonplused, Mr. Oppenheim said that he had not been thinking of that association. He fought the cancellation to no avail and eventually agreed to a compromise solution. For “Blue Shirt,” he substituted “Submerged Vessels,” a set of three sailboats with hulls in the form of human faces.

It’s a telling story. Mr. Oppenheim welcomed the political engagements and conflicts entailed in bringing his improbable proposals to fruition. He wanted his works to involve people from all walks of life, not just natives of the high-art world. He worked tirelessly for a kind of art that would be truly public in every way, however complicatedly. Storm King’s relatively modest show doesn’t fully capture Mr. Oppenheim’s pragmatically utopian ambitions and wildly inventive imagination — it would take a huge show to do that — but it’s a good introduction to an artist of exemplary spiritual generosity.

“Dennis Oppenheim: Terrestrial Studio” continues through Nov. 13 at Storm King Art Center, 1 Museum Road, New Windsor, N.Y.; 845-534-3115, stormking.org.

A version of this review appears in print on July 8, 2016, on page C21 of the New York edition with the headline: A Mover of Heaven and Earth. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

Summary: An exhibition at the Storm King Art Center is a mini-retrospective of Mr. Oppenheim’s prolific career.


The OurMine hacking team on Sunday commandeered the Twitter account of John Hanke, the CEO of Pokémon Go firm Niantic.

The attackers used the opportunity to tweet out the claim that the hack was “for Brazil.” The country is indeed one of those in which the hit game has not yet been rolled out, reportedly to the chagrin of athletes who have arrived for the Rio Olympics.

“The Brazilian community didn’t ask for this,” one irritated Twitter user retorted.

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As is OurMine’s modus operandi, the hacking team also claimed that it was “testing [Hanke’s] security” and offered its services to “upgrade” his security.

Judging by a subsequent tweet that claimed his Twitter password was something very simple and obvious, that upgrade would involve little more than choosing a better password and maybe turning on two-factor authentication (though Twitter’s SMS-based authentication method leaves a lot to be desired).

OurMine last month claimed to be behind outages on the Pokémon Go network, although it is hard to verify that claim—it could just be that Niantic’s servers were overwhelmed by high levels of demand from real people, rather than being floored by a deliberate denial-of-service attack.

For more on hackers and the game, watch our video.

What OurMine is demonstrably good at, however, is taking over people’s Twitter accounts. Its victims include Google goog CEO Sundar Pichai, Facebook fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter twtr CEO Jack Dorsey and, more recently, William Shatner.

Summary: Niantic CEO John Hanke is the latest high-profile victim of OurMine, which claims to have commandeered his Twitter account "for Brazil."


David Cameron has given his strong backing to Michael Gove's views that more must be done to tackle extreme Islamist ideology before it spills into violence but suggested the education secretary's former aide Dominic Cummings is a "career psychopath".

The prime minister compared Islamic extremists to fascists and said it was vital that neither are tolerated.

He was speaking at a garden party hosted by Policy Exchange, the think-tank co-founded by Gove, who recently blamed the Home Office for allowing Islamic extremism to flourish as long as it does not turn into violence.

Cameron praised Theresa May, the home secretary, for doing a "brilliant" job but placed himself firmly in Gove's camp as he said the argument has still not been won on combating extremist ideology.

"There were some in the last government and before that who seemed to think it was ok to tolerate extremist language, extremist rhetoric and extremist mindsets as as long as you never tolerate violent extremism.

"It's almost like saying we're ok with the BNP, it's only Combat 18 (a neo-Nazi organisation) you have to worry about. We don't accept fascists in this country so we shouldn't accept that argument when it comes to Islamic extremism. I think it's absolutely vital to make this argument and win this argument as comprehensively as we have over the economy."

Gove's view that not enough has been done to "drain the swamp" of Islamic extremism from schools sparked an unprecedented row with May that led to her key media adviser resigning over negative briefings about the education secretary went to the press. Gove later apologised over his comments made at a private meeting with The Times.

At the reception, Cameron also appeared to hit out at Cummings, a former aide to Gove, who earlier this week criticised the prime minister and his entire Downing Street operation.

Gove was forced to disown his former senior aide for describing Cameron as bumbling, the No 10 chief of staff, Ed Llewellyn, as a sycophant presiding over a shambolic court, and the direct of communications, Craig Oliver, as clueless.

The prime minister suggested there is now a path from special adviser to "career psychopath" in what was interpreted as a pointed remark about Gove's former right-hand man.

Summary: David Cameron supports Michael Gove's view that more must be done to confront extreme Islamist ideology


A seagull on the coast of Wales definitely did not plan on turning himself bright orange. But when he fell into a container of chicken tikka masala at a food factory on Monday, the vibrant spices from the ubiquitous Indian dish—a “national dish” of England—quickly turned his feathers a distinctively bright curry hue.

Workers rescued the sea bird from the vat of waste curry, and he was taken to a wildlife hospital where staff used dishwashing liquid to clean up the stained feathers, reports The Guardian.

“I’ve been a veterinary nurse for 25 years and I have never seen this happen before,” said Lucy Kells, a staffer at the hospital. Apparently the bird smelled quite strongly of tikka masala, and needed to be cleaned a few times over before the white-and-grey color was restored to his feathers. He’s “a bit skinny” still, so the hospital is keeping him in a cage and feeding him up before they’ll release him back into the wild.

Summary: A seagull on the Welsh coast fell into a food factory's tikka massala waste.


When hardware hacker Paweł Zadrożniak fired up his Floppotron—an electronic orchestra comprised of 64 floppy drives, eight hard drives, two scanners and a bunch of other techie stuff— what did he want it to play? The Game of Thrones theme song of course.

The sophisticated yet retro machine works by transforming the motors in the electronic devices into music makers. “Every device with an electric motor is able to generate a sound,” he explains on his website. “The sound generated by a motor depends on driving speed. The higher the frequency, the greater the pitch.” The result is a surprisingly haunting rendition of the show’s main theme, which immediately whisks you back to Westeros and eager for the next season to begin.

If you prefer to leave the Game of Thrones theme to its creator, Ramin Djawadi, the Floppotron can play Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Star Wars “The Imperial March” and (why not?) the Hawaii Five-O theme song, too. Listen here.

Summary: Westeros calling


Paul Gigot: Welcome to this special edition of “The Journal Editorial Report,” as we count down to the final primaries of the 2016 campaign season.

I’m Paul Gigot, and all eyes are on California this weekend, where Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are locked in a tight race, with just two points separating them in the latest Wall Street Journal poll. Clinton canceled campaign events in New Jersey this week to head to the Golden State, something her opponent made note of in a rally in Palo Alto:

Sanders: I read the newspapers, the New York Times and the other papers, and they said the campaign is over. I then suddenly saw Hillary Clinton racing to California, Bill Clinton racing to California. Maybe they think this campaign is not quite over.

Gigot: Joining the panel this week, Wall Street Journal columnist and deputy editor Dan Henninger, columnist Jason Riley, associate editorial page editor James Freeman and Washington columnist Kim Strassel.

So, Kim, the race is close. Why is Hillary Clinton having such a hard time closing the deal?

Strassel: I would say three things, Paul. One, she has a cloud hanging over her head, given this ethics issue and server problems, the inspector general report that came out. Two, she has an enthusiasm problem. People are flocking to Bernie Sanders, and you see them running into the race. And finally, she has a trust problem. Voters don’t think they can believe what she has to say. All of those things are combing to give him a real boost at the end of the race.

Gigot: Here’s a fascinating thing, Kim: 1.5 million new voters have registered in California alone since January, something like 600,000 of those in the last 45 days. Most of them are Democrats. Are those Sanders voters?

Strassel: Yes, and they are looking at those—they are Sanders voters. Many of them are young and a lot of them in demographics that Hillary Clinton had won in California before like, for instance, Hispanics. But when they have been doing polls, it’s suggests he is polling much better with some of her traditional audiences. She is keeping the older voters, people who were with Hillary Clinton in 2008. But all of the new young blood is with Bernie Sanders.

Gigot: Jason, this is interesting because California is a state where the Democratic Party has as a huge minority proportion, not just Hispanic- Americans but Asian-Americans. They have traditionally, this primary season, gone with Hillary Clinton. Why not maybe this time?

Riley: I think for the reasons Kim laid out, I agree, particularly, the enthusiasm issue there. He is hurting her. She has an insurmountable delegate lead so he is not going to win the nomination, even if he wins California. But he is—

Gigot: —putting a damper on the Bernie brigade.

Riley: —he is forcing Hillary Clinton to spend time and money in California, a very expensive state to campaign in—time she would rather be spending on Donald Trump. She can’t because she has Bernie biting at her ankles. And she has to be careful about how she treats his supporters. Some of which may not only stay at home but move to Donald Trump. The antiestablishment types that are very enthusiastic about Bernie, she needs their enthusiasm in November.

Gigot: I want to get to that argument about enthusiasm.

But the delegates that Jason mentioned—that’s right, even if she loses California because of the way delegates are allocated, she will be leading. And she’s going to say after Tuesday, I guarantee you, that “I’m the presumptive nominee.” What is Sanders’s argument going to be in reply to that?

Freeman: I think, partly, you’ve got all these superdelegates, which she’s been counting on, maybe at some point they start to say we need an alternative.

Gigot: But what’s the argument?

Gigot: What’s the argument that Bernie says “I am the alternative”? He has to make that case.

Freeman: The argument is Democrats don’t want her to be their nominee.

Freeman: A striking finding in the Field poll that came out Thursday: Even among self-identified Clinton voters, her voters, most are not enthusiastic. They are grudgingly going along, whereas you see the enthusiasm on the Sanders side. Also just—

Gigot: She will have the delegates. She will, as Jason suggests, almost certainly be the nominee. What does Sanders do to tear off the superdelegates?

Freeman: Obviously, an indictment would help. We talked about the email issue. If the indictment doesn’t come, maybe he’s playing for a role shaping policy, shaping the platform. It seems—

Gigot: I know that’s what he’s playing for, but what is the argument—what is the argument that Sanders is—

Henninger: He can win. She is going to lose.

Gigot: OK. So he is the better general-election—

Henninger: He is 10 points ahead of Trump in the head-to-head. She is even. If he—if she falls five points behind him by July, Bernie is going to look at the superdelegates and say: “She is going to lose the election for you. I can win it for you.”

Gigot: But every prominent Democrat will come out, including some progressives like Elizabeth Warren—will say, Bernie, time to leave, mate, time to get out. The force of the Democratic Party is going to say, let’s unify, you’ve had your moment in the sun, several months, get out. How does Bernie with stand that pressure?

Henninger: Bernie being Bernie will simply stand up against them. But, look, she has got a tremendous—

Gigot: He’ll ignore them, in other words.

Henninger: She has raised a lot of money. She has a huge fundraising mechanism all over the country. She has hundreds of people on the ground already in states like Florida and Ohio. It will be hard for Bernie to duplicate that. The Democratic Party regulars understand that.

Gigot: Kim, do you agree that all the Democratic bigs will surround—will come out after California, win or lose for Clinton, and say, Bernie, time to get out?

Strassel: United, but they will have to be careful, Paul, because those Bernie supporters are behind Bernie, and they cannot risk offending him. There was an interesting poll out this week that showed about half of Hillary Clinton supporters said they would enthusiastically support Bernie Sanders were he the nominee, only about a quarter of Bernie supporters said they could support Hillary Clinton. You have to treat these people gently.

Gigot: Why would Bernie Sanders want to stay in to the convention? What is he looking for?

Strassel: Again, there’s what he will say publicly and what he won’t say. What he won’t say is that he will stay in case something happens with an indictment and Hillary Clinton gets drummed out of the race. His argument is going to be, look, none of this is over until the delegates have voted, and I’m going to be there and influence who the vice presidential candidate is going to be—

Strassel: —and I’m going to influence what the party platform is in the end. And he feels he can only do that if he is there and still a threat to her at the convention.

Gigot: All right, Kim, thank you.

Still ahead, with her poll numbers dropping and her legal headaches mounting, could Hillary Clinton actually lose her party’s nomination? One Democratic pollster says it’s more likely now than ever.

Gigot: With her poll numbers dropping and her legal woes mounting, my guest this week says there is now more than a theoretical chance that Hillary Clinton will not be the Democratic presidential nominee.

Doug Schoen served as a political adviser and pollster for President Bill Clinton from 1994 to 2000.

Doug Schoen, welcome back to the program.

Schoen: Thanks for having me, Paul.

Gigot: So your argument, which you made in our newspaper this week, has an enormous response, I assume a lot from Bernie Sanders supporters.

Schoen: I suspect so, yes.

Gigot: But it runs against all the conventional wisdom. Make your case.

Schoen: The case is the secretary of state can lose California. She certainly has the serous problem of the FBI and Justice Department investigation potentially finding culpability somewhere. And then Bernie Sanders could well go the convention and try to change the rules on the superdelegates to bind them to the state’s results that they are representing. All of that could well lead to the secretary of state not being the nominee.

Gigot: But how so? She is not going to stop and withdraw. And what you’re talking—she is going to fight every step of the way. Even if she loses California, she will say I’m still ahead in the delegate count—

Gigot: —the superdelegates are still in my camp.

Gigot: And, Bernie, it’s time to get out. And the pressure of the party bigs, as you know, will be on Sanders to get out.

Schoen: It will be, and I don’t see any evidence that he will heed those wishes. That’s No. 1. No. 2, I think there’s been some indication that the Justice Department will act before the convention in Philadelphia begins.

Gigot: Speculation. We don’t know. Maybe.

Schoen: Bernie Sanders’s wife has said that’s a reason for him to stay in. And from Bernie Sanders’s point of view, doesn’t it make sense for him to go to the convention, fight the good fight, as Teddy Kennedy did in 1980 at the convention in New York against Jimmy Carter, and see what happens? All of which suggests to me this process has a long way to go.

Gigot: Do you think Bernie Sanders wins California?

Schoen: I think they—I think he’ll win narrowly with all the new registrants. I think, since the beginning of the year, a couple of million; last 45 days, 600,000 to 700,000—

Schoen: —new Democrats. These are more likely to be Sanders voters. The idiosyncratic evidence I have from out there says the enthusiasm of the Sanders people is much greater than the Clinton people.

Gigot: OK, but short of an indictment, even with all the things you say, he wins California and the enthusiasm gap, short of an indictment, does he have a chance to turn superdelegates?

Schoen: First, it depends on how her poll numbers hold up vis-à-vis Donald Trump. It was a better week for her this week than for Donald Trump. So far, the polls have shown a pretty even race. That’s one problem.

Gigot: Whereas Sanders is ahead by 10.

Schoen: Exactly. And that’s Sanders’s argument. And then I don’t think there has to be a show of culpability by the secretary herself, thought there is certainly an argument that she did arguably violate statutes. If two or three of her top aides are judged to have committed illegal acts, then we have a different set of questions.

Gigot: Does that—that would be—obviously, throw everything up in the air going to the convention.

Gigot: Let’s say that happens. It’s just all speculation, but let’s say that happens. The party superdelegates, a lot of elites would like to say: Oh, we are not going to give the nomination to Sanders, we’ll bring in a Biden—you even mentioned this in your piece—

Gigot: —or John Kerry or even Elizabeth Warren—

Gigot: —and nominate one of them. But the Sanders supporters, they are not going to like them.

Gigot: How do they deny the nomination to a guy who will have won more than 20 primaries?

Schoen: And I think that’s the problem. Sanders is going to stay in for that potential situation. I think what Biden would try to do is to run with Elizabeth Warren to placate the left and do what Hubert Humphrey did again in 1968 with Lyndon Johnson’s support.

Gigot: Is Sanders, in your view, a stronger general-election candidate against Trump than Mrs. Clinton is?

Schoen: Obviously, at this point, yes, because of the anger in the electorate, potentially, more so than those who have dismissed him. And the other point I’d make is the secretary of state is a weak general-election candidate, benefiting only by the fact that she’s running against somebody who is arguably weaker in Donald Trump.

Gigot: You have argued for years that there is an opening in this election for a third party.

Gigot: This year with the two nominees having the highest unfavorables in modern memory, is this the third-party year?

Schoen: It is the year. I think that the polling I have seen and I have done and others have done shows 55% to 60% of the American people want a third party on the ticket; 20% to 25% said they would vote for an unnamed person. But we don’t have a candidate, Paul.

Gigot: What about the Libertarian Party? They nominated former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson. Could this be the year where they do better than 1%?

Schoen: I think it’s possible if they are getting at least in a FOX poll 10% to 11%. I don’t think they will do that well. But they will probably do a lot better than the 1%.

Gigot: Could they steal a state?

Schoen: I don’t think he could. But you know what? We are in such an unpredictable year, that I hate to make definitive statements.

Gigot: All right, Doug Schoen, thank you for all the statements.

Still ahead, she may not be the Democratic nominee, but Hillary Clinton is certainly acting like it, taking on Donald Trump this week over foreign policy. So was her attack effective?

Trump: That was a phony speech. That was a Donald Trump hit job.

Mrs. Clinton: Americans are not just electing a president in November. We are choosing our next commander in chief, the person we count on to decide questions of war and peace, life and death. And like many across our country and around the world, I believe the person the Republicans have nominated for president cannot do the job.

Gigot: That was Hillary Clinton in San Diego this week in what her campaign billed as a major foreign-policy address. But rather than laying out her vision, she unleashed a blistering attack on Donald Trump, claiming the Republican nominee is temperamentally unfit to be commander in chief and calling his foreign-policy ideas dangerously incoherent.

We are back with Dan Henninger, Kim Strassel and James Freeman. And Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady also joins us.

So, Kim, she is clearly trying to disqualify Donald Trump as commander in chief, saying he’s too risky and can’t do the jobs. Smart strategy?

Strassel: I have to say this was a pretty effective speech for a couple of reasons. One, to the extent she criticized Donald Trump, she did it using his own words. He said a lot of this stuff. Two, he had no answer after she leveled the criticism. The best he could do was to criticize her performance. Finally, it deflected attentions from her own record out there, and that’s good for her in the long run.

Gigot: Who was her audience, Kim? Was she talking to Democrats in California ahead of the primary or was she talking to Republicans or Independents who might be on the fence about Trump and trying to reinforce doubts about him?

Strassel: She is talking to all the general-election voters. That’s Donald Trump’s problem. He’s been given a path, by and large, in foreign policy because he was talking to a Republican electorate, and they didn’t mind that he blustered along in this area, the way he does in many things. The voters he will need out there are moderates, they are independents. While they may not necessarily be going to vote primarily on foreign policy, they need to see a level of comfort with the candidate they vote for.

Gigot: This is interesting. Mary, she is turning Donald Trump strategy on Donald Trump. Right? You don’t have a policy debate with Trump. He goes after people, their personality and character. That’s what she did to Trump. There was not much policy debate in this. “We favor our allies.” Who doesn’t favor our allies?

O’Grady: Right. I think Kim is right in that her tone was better than when she was on the campaign trail and she sounded a little bit shrill. And she also was just able to use his words and his style and the way he tweets and sounds like Don Rickles half the time. That is devastating when you lay it out there.

But on the other hand, I think that she ran into trouble when she tried to list her list of accomplishments because they sounded—you know, she went through and she checked them off. She had China, Russia, Israel.

Gigot: What was that China accomplishment?

O’Grady: That was the Copenhagen Climate Agreement, which has no teeth.

O’Grady: She talked about reduction of nuclear missiles with Russia. Russia is walking all over us. So she really didn’t—she is not able to articulate her own successes because she doesn’t have any. That’s where her vulnerabilities are.

Gigot: Dan, is that the big problem here, that the vulnerabilities Clinton has as her record being associated with the Obama administration on foreign policy?

Henninger: Yeah, I think so. She has to separate herself somehow from Obama, though she said she was an enabler for the Iran nuclear deal and she’s attached herself to it.

I think we have to understand, Paul, the election is not just a big national referendum. You’re going state by state. You have to win more voters than the other person. It will be a battle for the independents in the middle. That’s what she was aiming this speech at, discomforted Independents. But I’m not so sure there a lot of independents who are trending towards Donald Trump. Even if he stands out there saying Benghazi, Yemen, radical Islam, she won’t say radical Islam, and there are a lot of independents who will say, yeah, he is right. I think he’s got off his game but I’m not so sure she’s winning on that.

Gigot: Kim made the point, James, he didn’t have a response. The campaign had no response. He tweeted a couple of things about her presentation, but nobody mentioned Benghazi, there was no list of Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy record. I mean, I know this campaign defies convention, but if you are going to make a case against somebody, shouldn’t you at least mention the case?

Freeman: Yeah, there were interesting made-for-Twitter counterpunches available for him that he didn’t take, starting with, “You found time to tell Chelsea what a tough day you had while your people were dying in Benghazi, even though you weren’t talking to the people who run our military.” There was a lot he could go with there. But I kind of wonder what the audience was for this speech because, aside from—

Gigot: Kim says the independents.

Freeman: But basically, in a lot of ways, it sounded like a critique of the administration she just served. She talked about a strong, confident America that leads. Barack Obama explicitly did not want us leading. He wanted us stepping back from that leadership role. She talked about clear strategies to defeat ISIS. Where has that been? You go down the list—the Iran nuclear agreement. So if you were tempted as a right-of-center voter to go with her military strategy, I think you look at the record and it isn’t there.

Gigot: Kim, what’s the explanation for why Trump didn’t respond beyond a couple of performance insults?

Strassel: It’s mind-boggling. I think Trump does know that foreign policy is not his biggest strength, and he has struggled with it since he started. But it’s something that—look, there is a lot of opportunity for him here if he were to respond. It is not just tying Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama’s legacy, which could be deadly on its own, but also the fact that the agenda, which was quite different from Barack Obama, was most of a center-left type of Democratic foreign policy that preceded Barack Obama, but it was one that was never very popular in the country anyway, and was a bit disqualifying to Democrats for a long time. He could narrow in on that. Not to mention, by the way, the national-security issues having to do with her server.

Gigot: Is this national security an edge for Trump or Clinton, very briefly?

O’Grady: It’s an edge for Trump, but he has to recognize it and begin to become serious and presidential about answering her commentary.

Gigot: All right, thank you all.

Much more to come on this special edition of “The Journal Editorial Report.” Still ahead, President Obama weighs into the 2016 campaign, touting his economic record and accusing Republicans of distorting his accomplishments. But on the heels of the dismal jobs report, is the issue really a good one for Democrats?

Obama: Let me be as straight as I can be about the choice of economic policies that you are going to face. And I am going to start with a story that not every Republican but most Republicans candidates up and down the ticket are telling. Their basic story is America’s working class, America’s middle class, families like yours have been victimized by a big, bloated federal government run by a bunch of left wing elitists like me.

Gigot: Welcome back to this special edition of “The Journal Editorial Report.” I’m Paul Gigot.

That was President Obama in Elkhart, Ind., this week touting his economic record and attacking what he calls the myths being peddled by the conservative media and GOP. It’s a preview of the role he’ll play as a general-election surrogate for Democrats. But with the release Friday of a dismal jobs report, will the Obama economy be a winning issue come November?

We’re back with Dan Henninger, Jason Riley, James Freeman and Mary Anastasia O’Grady.

So, Mary, I guess I would argue that what we are seeing here is that the jobs market caught up, or down, to the dismal growth jobs—the figures we’ve had with the overall economy in the last eight months or so.

Gigot: Is this a trend for a new lower level or just a blip?

O’Grady: Well, it’s the longest recovery since—in the postwar period. So we’re in—

Gigot: Seven years, as of this month.

O’Grady: Exactly. So if we are running out of steam, it wouldn’t be surprising. And we now have a record 94.7 million Americans not working—sorry—yeah, 94.7 million Americans not working. One of the main problems we see here is just as President Obama described it, very heavy regulation is dampening the interest that investors have, entrepreneurs have, in capital spending. And that is a long-term thing that eventually eats into the ability of the economy to grow. This last week, we had a piece by Bernie Marcus, came out and said—he was one of the founders of Home Depot—and he said, “I could not have started this business right now because the regulatory environment is so oppressive that I couldn’t get a small business going like that.”

Gigot: Yeah, that’s pretty depressing, James, when you think about it. And what I worry about is the business investment is so slow, and that’s the driver of new jobs and the driver of productivity, and it’s a driver of growth.

Freeman: That’s right. These businesspeople are on the sidelines, they are thinking the same thing Bernie Marcus is thinking. What’s the argument now? And really the president went to great lengths to avoid talking about the weight that Washington has put on this economy—

Gigot: He doesn’t think it’s a weight. He thinks it’s a benefit.

Freeman: Right. Right. He thinks all these regulations are beneficial. He called it a myth that he is overregulating. The United States is now paying $1.9 trillion a year to comply with regulations. That’s basically bigger than the entire economy in Canada.

Riley: In May, 38,000 jobs were created. That’s the worst month since 2010, Paul. That is not the result of the conservative media spinning his economic record. People can see that with their own two eyes. You can look at the low unemployment rates, but we all know that that is a function of fewer people bothering to even look for work—

Gigot: What he would say, Jason is, look, we’ve had more than two million jobs created each year. This is an aberration. It’s a blip. We are going to be move back to moving up. Let’s relax, don’t overreact.

Riley: Well, the marginal figures were revised down.

Riley: You look at the labor participation rate, you look at the stagnant wages. He can try and spin this any way he wants, but the fact of the matter is—and hope that this is not the time to switch teams and things are moving in the right direction—

Gigot: Look at what the Republicans did for us in the crisis and so on—

Riley: But people are paying attention to what they see in these numbers.

Gigot: What do you think about the—Trump is up about, what, 10 points in the polling versus Hillary Clinton on the economy. Is this an advantage for Trump?

Henninger: It is a huge. It is the advantage, Paul. Look, in every primary we have had so far, in every exit poll on the Democratic and the Republican side, No. 1 issue, Democrat and Republican: economic anxiety, including Democrats. He is trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. People are upset about the economy. If you listen to that speech, he is making the argument that Hillary is going to make in the campaign, which is, it’s all the Republicans’ fault. I tried to do so many good things, like raise the minimum wage, and they blocked me. This is the do-nothing Republican Congress, they are responsible for the economy?

Freeman: This should be bigger than a 10-point advantage for Trump if he takes on the issues. You look at Hillary, she is saying basically more regulation and more taxes. Trump has a tax-cutting plan but sometimes he seems a little fuzzy on whether he’s really for it or not. He’s talked about the need to reduce regulation but there’s not a plan yet.

Gigot: He didn’t even respond to the jobs numbers.

Gigot: I think he had one or two tweets.

Freeman: He’s not conventional. He’s not conventional.

O’Grady: I think—can we go back to business investment? I think it’s very important. If you look at those numbers, what you see is that businesses are spending on cost cutting. When they do spend, they spend on cost cutting. They don’t go on expansion. The reason for that is that the animal spirits are not there for people who want to expand.

Gigot: I couldn’t agree more. Everybody is holding back. There is uncertainty. Before you know it, Jason, the president and Hillary Clinton will be blaming Trump for the uncertainty. If he doesn’t speak up and make an affirmative case for what the problem is, they will win that argument.

Riley: You are right. You are absolutely right. What Obama has been able to do for the past seven years is divorce his personal likability from the popularity of his policies. Two out of three Americans say the economy is moving in the wrong direction, yet the president’s approval rating is about 50% and has been ticking up.

Gigot: So explain that paradox.

Riley: It is remarkable. It is remarkable. Your policies can be as unpopular as they are, yet he remains personally likeable. And it’s why Hillary Clinton will, I think, have an advantage with him being able to be out there campaigning with her.

Riley: And that makes him more even popular among the Democrats.

Gigot: All right, I have to go. We’re going to follow this. This is going to be interesting. The economy will be very interesting.

Still ahead, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, two candidates with record high negatives. In a political year where anything can happen, could a third-party candidate still break through?

Gigot: Could a third-party candidate still break through in 2016? Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson says his strategy will consist of tapping into the historically high unfavorable ratings of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico, was nominated at the party’s convention in Orlando last week. His running mate is another former Republican governor, William Weld of Massachusetts.

So, Dan, usually a third party has a chance to score well enough, reasonably well, when the two party nominees are not popular or you have a period of upset in the electorate, people want a change. We have both of those factors now. Can Johnson or somebody else break through?

Henninger: I don’t think they can break through, Paul, but I think this is the moment for a third-party candidacy. You said unpopular—that is an understatement. We never had an election like that, where half of Republicans and half of Democrats say they are voting for their candidate because they hate the other candidate. Both Hillary and Trump are up near 60% disapproval rating. Just anecdotal, we all know people are so upset at the choice and so upset at the party that I think this is a chance for a third party to emerge and maybe go forward after the election.

Gigot: Mary, show some love for your fellow Libertarians. Is this the year Johnson breaks through that—little less than 1% four years ago, but try it again?

O’Grady: I think he will have a hard time. Although, I agree with Dan that—I meet so many people who say they are disgusted with both of the mainstream candidates. The problem is Johnson will have trouble pulling from Republicans. Because even though they like his limited government, you know, he said that he was willing to pardon Edward Snowden, and I think that’s going to be hard on independents who are serious about the war on terror. And for Democrats, yeah, they loved his position on liberal issues, but, he believes—

Gigot: Social issues in particular, yeah.

O’Grady: Yeah. He believes that a viable fetus should have the right to life. He is also has very strict fiscal responsibility ideas that Democrats will not like. I think he has trouble appealing to both sides.

Gigot: What about another third party? I heard some chatter in the Beltway that maybe somebody else could come in, an establishment Republican. People have asked Mitt Romney to do it, Ben Sasse, the Nebraska senator. So far, no takers. Is that going anywhere?

Freeman: No. And there are no takers because this is a grass-roots movement of literally dozens in New York and Washington; they come together to try and get their agenda out there and find a mainstream candidate to carry it, so.

Gigot: In our circle, that’s a populist movement, James. So that’s not going anywhere.

But, Jason, here’s what the thing is. If you do get a really ugly candidate on both sides, you could see maybe Gary Johnson or a Libertarian or a third-party candidate coming out and maybe doing better than 3% or 4%. And in some states that could make a difference because what you would be seeing is maybe stealing some votes in a state like New Hampshire if the election is close. Some Democrats who are for Clinton can’t abide Trump, but they say, you know, I’ll vote for Johnson.

Riley: You could see that. And right now, in a couple of national polls, you have Gary Johnson polling at 10%, which is very—

Gigot: All you need is 15% to get into the debate, right?

Riley: And I think that is a function, the fact that the primary voters have elected the two most despised politicians in America to represent the major parties, so general-interest voters or general-campaign voters could be looking for alternatives. The big dream of whether you are talking about your Beltway grass-roots movement or some others is that these third-party candidates prevent either major party candidates from getting to 270 electoral votes to throw the race into the House of Representatives. That’s a real long shot though.

Freeman: I don’t think the Libertarians are serious. That is not serious either. William Weld—he was not considered a Libertarian until last weekend.

Riley: Trump wasn’t a Republican until last year.

Henninger: In the year 2000, Ralph Nader got 2.7% of the national vote. It is widely believed he denied Florida to Al Gore.

Gigot: I believe that. I think that’s true.

Henninger: If that’s the margin in some of these states, Libertarians just might pull enough votes from one of these candidates to pitch the vote to the other one.

O’Grady: That’s a good point, but I think what is different this year than in a long time, both Republicans and Democrats understand that the court is in play.

O’Grady: The Supreme Court is in play. And in some years, you might be willing to say, oh, I will give my vote for Libertarians, but this year you may feel I don’t want Hillary picking those judges.

Gigot: It could be a spoiler role in some state, but not winning a state will get into—

Riley: It’s not marginal issues. Gary Johnson has promised to cut military spending by 20%.

Gigot: Lots of Democrats like that.

Riley: The world is on fire, and the next president will have to deal with it. And China and Russia, two adversaries, are building their militaries. So these Libertarian candidates aren’t taken seriously.

O’Grady: Those are for people who like Bernie.

Freeman: The high-water mark for the third party was Ross Perot. He succeeded in getting Bill Clinton elected president. If Libertarians thrive this year, they will succeed in making Hillary president.

Gigot: All right, last word, James.

Still ahead, a bloody Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, adding to concerns about a spike in violent crime in some major American cities. What’s behind the rise and what can be done, when we come back.

FBI director James Comey: Something is happening in America. A whole lot more people are dying in some places this year than last year, and more last year than the year before.

Gigot: A staggering 69 people were shot in the city of Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, adding to the concern about a spike in violent crime across the country. Murders are up in roughly 30 cities so far in 2016, continuing a troubling trend that began last year. FBI Director James Comey recently reignited a contentious debate over the cause, saying that a so-called viral-video effect could be at the heart of the increase.

So, Dan, let’s start with Chicago. New York and L.A. have both succeeded over the last two decades in reducing murders and crime in general. What’s going wrong in Chicago?

Henninger: What’s going wrong in Chicago is they can’t get control of the gangs. Eddie Johnson, the police superintendent there, said that of the 69, about 80% were on a watch list of violent gang members, basically, gangs shooting at each other. And—

Gigot: Sometimes innocent bystanders along the way.

Henninger: They say let’s throw more cops in there. No, they can’t afford to hire more cops. Mayor Emanuel has been putting them on overtime, whereas in New York they have the financial resources to target these gangs, as they did two months ago, recall, when they arrested 100 gang members in the Bronx. Chicago simply doesn’t have the ability.

Gigot: And the reason for that is because so many of the resources are going into pensions and benefits for city employee.

Henninger: Don’t let your city go bankrupt.

Riley: I think Dan is absolutely right. Proactive policing works. We’ve seen it work. The problem today is that you have a war on proactive policing and it’s being led by the Black Lives Matter movement, and it’s—and they’re being indulged by the mainstream media, by and large. Everyone is out there pretending that the cops and cop behavior is the root of this problem, when it is not. And the effect of this, if you are going to make the men in blue the devil here, it’s going to affect the behavior of the men in blue.

And I think what Comey was getting at in that clip is cops are responding, as anyone would, to this narrative that paints them as the villain. They’re less willing, they’re a little quicker—they’re less willing to get out of their car. They’re not so quick to respond to calls. It’s affecting—the perspective being put out there that they’re the problem here, it is affecting their behavior and, therefore policing in these communities that need proactive policing the most.

Gigot: But isn’t this ultimately a question of political leadership in the cities?

O’Grady: Yeah. I mean, going to Dan’s point about the financing and funding they have for the police, it’s more than just hiring more police. As we know, back in the ’80s, you know, we started in New York with the “Broken Windows” idea that when you let petty crime go, it gets worse and worse. There was a—

Gigot: You create a climate—

O’Grady: Right. There was a whole sort of science applied to policing. There was a lot of training. Police officers—it’s not—yes, it’s about whether they’re reluctant to get out of their car. But I think they need a general retraining in the ways that New York learned about in the ’80s and ’90s and in the last 10 years.

Gigot: We’ve had the police chiefs in New York City in to see us and they talk about using social media to see where gangs are going, to throw police resources at the problems, pre-emptively sometimes. And it’s worked. I don’t understand why they can’t translate that into Chicago.

Freeman: Well, a lot of that, this is a failure of political leadership right from the top. We see when FBI Director Comey says we have a problem here, murders are spiking in our big cities, when he says there are a Ferguson effect, people are more hostile to police, and crime is going up, we get the push-back from White House. We get the political leadership of this country basically criticizing him for what is now established in fact. The year after the Ferguson—the Michael Brown shooting, homicides went up in black cities, in predominately black cities. So black lives matter, and that’s why they need the police in inner cities.

Gigot: But there’s an enormous movement, Jason, as you’ve said, that basically, is saying there has been unfair treatment of minorities, particularly in the issue of broken windows, where stop and frisk was used unfairly, particularly against African-American men. And that that’s something we need to stop, and that has happened in New York City and it’s happening elsewhere.

Riley: The police are in these neighborhoods, as the police commissioners will explain to you, because that’s where the 911 calls come from. This whole notion that black have tense relationships with police depends on which blacks you are talking about. I want the criminals in the black neighborhoods to have a tense relationship with police. So do most of the law-abiding residents living there. But black people call the police more than anybody else in America, Paul. That’s a funny way of showing you have a bad relationship with cops.

O’Grady: But I still think there’s a difference between the training a cop gets in Chicago and the training a cop gets in New York. That’s where the gap is. It’s not about whether, you know, they are in the neighborhoods, but how are they responding, how do they handle criminals, how do they handle petty crime. That training was very important to the turn-around in New York. It hasn’t happened in Chicago.

Gigot: All right, thank you all.

We have to take one more break. When we come back, “Hits and Misses” of the week.

Gigot: Time now for our “Hits and Misses” of the week. Dan?

Henninger: I’m giving a hit to the CBS TV station in Los Angeles who discovered the one story nobody’s talking about in the California primaries, dead voters. They looked at records and found out there are hundreds of voters in California who have been voting year after year, going back eight years. This is being called the California zombie vote. Personally, I think that the dead voters should be added to the exit polls.

O’Grady: Paul, this is a hit for chief executive of SpaceX, Elon Musk, who announced this week he’ll send a human mission to Mars by 2024. Now, he didn’t give a lot of detail and he’s going to talk more about it in September. But he did say that the flight will leave in 2024 and arrive at Mars in 2025. When they come back, I don’t know, but depending on when they come back, I have some candidates I would like to go on the mission.

Gigot: Any volunteers? We should—please send your nominations to Mary. James?

Freeman: This is a hit, Paul. One person we should not send off the planet is Susan Sarandon. A big hit to her—not for “Bull Durham,” not for the selfies with Selma Hayek. You recall Bernie Sanders was not willing to raise the email issue with Hillary Clinton. But his surrogate, Ms. Sarandon, is raising it with gusto, talking about the problem, the trustworthiness problem. This week, she said Hillary Clinton will definitely be indicted, so—

Gigot: Does she have better sources than we do or the Justice Department?

Riley: Paul, this is a big hit for boxing great Muhammad Ali, who died Friday at age 74. He is probably the most charismatic sports figure of the 20th century. And his fame transcended boxing and sports in general. He was a political and social activist who spoke out for black civil rights in ways that rubbed people of all political stripes the wrong way sometimes. But that didn’t stop him from becoming an international icon and, ultimately, a national treasure. I say rest in peace.

Gigot: And people don’t recall what a big deal heavyweight boxing was in the time when he was in his prime. He was such a dominant cultural figure.

All right. And remember, if you have your own “Hit or Miss,” be sure to tweet it to us @JERonFNC. That’s it for this week’s show. Thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching. I’m Paul Gigot. Hope to see you right here next week.

Summary: Paul Gigot, Dan Henninger, James Freeman, Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Mary O’Grady discuss the presidential campaign and Chicago’s crime spike. Plus Doug Schoen on the possibility that Hillary Clinton will drop out.


Niantic, the company behind the hit game Pokémon Go, is now the most popular games developer in the world, according to SimilarWeb.

The market intelligence firm said Friday that the success of the augmented reality game had helped Niantic kick the reigning champion, Candy Crush maker King, off its perch.

Based on installations and use on Android devices, SimilarWeb concluded that Niantic last month became the top game app developer in 45 out of the 183 countries it surveyed, including pretty much all of North America, Europe and Australasia.

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In some of the countries where Pokémon Go dominated, the game hadn’t even been officially released in July.

King, which had been top in 60 countries, is now the most popular developer in just 39 countries around the world, including India, Egypt, Malaysia and the Philippines.

The news of Niantic’s newfound dominance is not surprising, as its game broke the record for the highest number of Apple app downloads in the first week of release—7.2 million downloads, compared with the 1.8 million Candy Crush Jelly Saga got in its first week.

Pokémon Go earned $200 million in its first month—seven times as much as Candy Crush Soda Saga earned in its first month of release, back in 2014.

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Based on the sums paid for King ($5.9 billion, by Activision Blizzard) and Clash of Clans maker Supercell ($8.6 billion, by Tencent) this year, SimilarWeb theorized that Niantic may be worth “upwards of $10 billion.”

Niantic is a spin-out from Google goog , which is still an investor in it, along with Nintendo.

The third place in the firm’s rankings is held by Outfit7, which makes the My Talking Tom cat games, followed by Kiloo (Subway Surfers and Smash Champs) and First Touch (Dream League Soccer).

According to SimilarWeb, a notable victim of the Pokémon Go craze was Color Switch maker Fortafy Games, who got knocked off the top spot in countries such as Mexico, Poland and Israel.

Summary: Niantic, the Google spin-out that makes Pokémon Go, has usurped the game-popularity throne from Candy Crush maker KIng.