ANDREW SULLIVAN:

An American elite that has presided over massive and increasing public debt, that failed to prevent 9/11, that chose a disastrous war in the Middle East, that allowed financial markets to nearly destroy the global economy, and that is now so bitterly divided the Congress is effectively moot in a constitutional democracy: “We Respectables” deserve a comeuppance. The vital and valid lesson of the Trump phenomenon is that if the elites cannot govern by compromise, someone outside will eventually try to govern by popular passion and brute force.

From: New York Magazine, Democracies end when they are too democratic. May 1, 2016

MONA ELTAHAWY:

My revolution has been to develop from a 29-year-old virgin to the 49-year-old woman who now declares, on any platform I get:  It is I who own my body. Not the state, the mosque, the street or my family. And it is my right to have sex whenever, and with whomever, I choose. I realized I had to speak frankly about my own sexual experience to free others to do so, too.

From: Opinion Pages The New York Times, Sex Talk for Muslim Women 

THOMAS B. EDSALL:

A general election that pits Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump will produce a decisively more affluent and better educated Democratic presidential electorate and a decidedly less affluent and less educated Republican one than in any previous election going back as far as 1976. It is no secret that Trump is the driving force behind this year’s reconfigured coalition on the right. He has successfully appealed to middle- and lower-income white voters motivated by opposition to liberalized attitudes and social norms on matters of race, immigration and women’s rights.

From: Opinion, NYTimes,  The Great Trump Reshuffle