Bernie Sanders Will Alone Decide What Happens Next

Bernie Sanders has run for president like a lone prophet, a solitary Jeremiah who scribbles sprawling end-of-days speeches on his yellow legal pad from his hotel room or his car. He has few advisers and even fewer confidantes. He delivers sermons to adoring crowds whom he usually later avoids. He often wishes he were back home in Vermont, tending to the wood stove.

Now, with the primary effectively over, Sanders will do one final thing by himself: decide how it ends.