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Tonight on #Kimmel Bill Hader, Senator Cory Booker, music from Rae Sremmurd, and a man who was attacked by a shark, a snake and a bear. SUBSCRIBE to get the latest #KIMMEL: http://bit.ly/JKLSubscribe Watch Mean Tweets: http://bit.ly/KimmelMT10 Connect with Jimmy…

Ras Baraka became mayor of Newark four years ago, and here's what has happened since. In each of the last three school board elections, the two sides have joined hands to support a unity slate. Nancy Cantor, the popular chancellor of Rutgers-Newark, has worked with Baraka to develop innovative policies on crime, affordable housing, and jobs for locals. "We work with him a lot," Cantor says. Ok, it's time for the tradition caveat about good news in Newark. But the trends are all good, and that's the only fair test for a mayor. "America does not have the problems it has because of people of color. Newark should control its schools. He has turned into one of the state's most effective politicians. Baraka?

It was a show designed to get Zuckerberg off the hook after only a few hours in Washington DC. Each senator was given less than five minutes for questions. We shouldn’t be begging for Facebook’s endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg’s promises of self-regulation The worst moments of the hearing for us, as citizens, were when senators asked if Zuckerberg would support legislation that would regulate Facebook. Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. We shouldn’t be begging for Facebook’s endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg’s promises of self-regulation. Some of the hearing seemed designed to figure out whether Zuckerberg is a good or bad man, or whether he has a good or bad – or bizarre – political philosophy. That doesn’t make him that interesting as the CEO of a corporate monopoly; it makes him a run-of-the-mill robber baron. There is so much we don’t know about Facebook. Now that the initial show trial is done, we need the real deal, one where no senator gets cut off after a few minutes. The real hearing would allow for unlimited questions from each of our senators, who represent millions of people.

Today in 5 Lines President Trump defended his administration’s new gun and school-safety proposals, which include arming school staffers. Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who says she had an affair with Trump, offered to return the payment she received from Trump’s lawyer in exchange for dissolving the hush agreement. Trump reinforced his endorsement of Republican Rick Saccone ahead of Tuesday’s competitive special election in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district. The House Intelligence Committee reportedly finished interviewing witnesses as part of its Russia investigation. Today on The Atlantic ‘Evangelical Identity Crisis’: A new book reveals that a liberal, diverse subset of evangelicals is at odds with those who helped elect Trump—and that those fractures may define the movement going forward. (Emma Green) Extremism on Autoplay: Conor Friedersdorf argues that the algorithms that steer people toward “less mainstream” content are no problem in realms like music—but in politics, on platforms like YouTube, they could have “much darker consequences.” ‘I Think We Are Going to Elect Incredible Diversity’: New Jersey Senator Cory Booker discusses marijuana legalization, veganism, and the 2020 presidential race with Julia Ioffe. Follow stories throughout the day with our Politics & Policy portal. Snapshot What We’re Reading Dueling Roles: Ivanka Trump “likes to be in complete control,” but navigating her roles as the president’s daughter and a White House adviser has made that increasingly difficult. (Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker, The Washington Post) Sealed: Qatari officials reportedly have evidence of what they claim was the United Arab Emirates’s influence on Jared Kushner and other Trump associates, but won’t hand it over to Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “All else being equal, a special election in an overwhelmingly Republican district should not be of much interest,” writes Jay Cost.

The Politics of Bernie Sanders’s “Medicare for All” Bill. “This is where the country has got to go,” Sanders told the Washington Post’s David Weigel on Tuesday, a day before he unveiled a single-payer health-care-reform bill in the Senate. “When you have co-payments—when you say that health care is not a right for everybody, whether you’re poor or whether you’re a billionaire—the evidence suggests that it becomes a disincentive for people to get the health care they need,” Sanders told Weigel. (So has Sanders himself.) But that is the reality of Presidential politics these days: a semi-permanent campaign. In recent years, the biggest gains have come among self-identified independents, fifty-five per cent of whom now express support. “I think the American people are sick and tired of filling out forms,” Sanders told Weigel. You’ve got to argue with insurance companies about what you thought you were getting.” Shifting from the current system to a single-payer system would, however, be a huge transformation, and, when pollsters point out to survey participants some of the things such a change would entail, support for the Sanders approach tends to drop quite sharply. Eager to exploit Trump’s unpopularity in next year’s midterm elections, they know Republicans are keen to label the Democrats as the Party that wants to raise taxes and impose a government takeover of health care. “Democrats believe that health care is a right for all, and there are many different bills out there,” he said.