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12:55 PM ET, July 10, 2015

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Greece's Economy Is a Lesson for Republicans in the U.S.  —  Greece is a faraway country with an economy roughly the size of greater Miami, so America has very little direct stake in its ongoing disaster.  To the extent that Greece matters to us, it's mainly about geopolitics …
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The Greek government's full proposal to the Eurogroup
Discussion: Telegraph
Guardian:
Go Set A Watchman: read the first chapter - interactive  —  An exclusive extract from the new novel by Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, published on 14 July  —  Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical.
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Wall Street Journal:
Harper Lee's ‘Go Set a Watchman’: Read the First Chapter  —  Read the first chapter of Harper Lee's ‘Go Set a Watchman,’ which will be published July 14.  —  In 1957, when she was 31 years old, Harper Lee submitted her first attempt at a novel to the publisher J.B. Lippincott.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
N.Y. Times keeps Cruz off bestseller list  —  The New York Times informed HarperCollins this week that it will not include Ted Cruz's new biography on its forthcoming bestsellers list, despite the fact that the book has sold more copies in its first week than all but two of the Times' bestselling titles, the On Media blog has learned.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton's push on gun control marks a shift in presidential politics  —  In her standard stump speech, Hillary Rodham Clinton talks about fighting income inequality, celebrating court rulings on gay marriage and health care and, since the Emanuel AME church massacre, toughening the nation's gun laws.
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Stuart Stevens / The Daily Beast:
This Is How Hillary Loses the Primary
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Radley Balko / Washington Post:
Michigan judge bullies children in open court for refusing to see their dad  —  The Internet is abuzz this morning about Michigan Circuit Judge Lisa Gorcyca, who berated three juvenile siblings in her court before sending them to juvenile detention.  Their crime?  They didn't want to have lunch with their father.
Discussion: The Daily Tribune and Raw Story
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Katherine Archuleta, Director of Office of Personnel Management, Resigns  —  WASHINGTON — Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, will resign effective Friday, according to a White House official, one day after it was revealed that sweeping cyberintrusions …
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Wall Street Journal:
Wisconsin's Friend at the IRS  —  Emails show a common cause in restricting political speech.  —  Wisconsin's campaign to investigate conservative tax-exempt groups has always seemed like an echo of the IRS's scrutiny of conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
Discussion: JSOnline
Stephanie Kafka / Gallup:
U.S. Uninsured Rate at 11.4% in Second Quarter  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The uninsured rate among U.S. adults aged 18 and older was 11.4% in the second quarter of 2015, down from 11.9% in the first quarter.  The uninsured rate has dropped nearly six percentage points since …
Susan Jones / CNSNews:
Jan Brewer: Donald Trump ‘Telling It Like It Really, Truly Is’  —  (CNSNews.com) - Although he's been villified by amnesty advocates, business tycoon Donald Trump is right about the problems, including crime, caused by people crossing into the United States illegally, says the former governor of Arizona.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump: RNC chairman ‘probably’ leaked call  —  Donald Trump said in an interview airing late Thursday that Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus “probably” leaked details of a call between the pair this week.  —  “I just don't know how the story got out,” Trump …
Discussion: The New Republic and The Week
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Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
What Gov. Scott Walker is about to do to Wisconsin's public schools  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is busy these days, what with preparing to officially join the gaggle of Republican candidates vying for the 2016 GOP Republican nomination and planning to sign a new state budget.
Discussion: Diane Ravitch's blog
Noah Phillips / Washington Post:
I tried to escape my privilege with low-wage work.  Instead I came face to face with it.  —  The advantages of race and class are not easily shed, even in a falafel shop.  —  I attended the Edmund Burke School, one of Northwest Washington's small private prep schools …
Discussion: Althouse
The Hill:
Late objections cast doubt on cures bill  —  Objections from both sides of the aisle are stirring doubts about a bipartisan medical cures bill that is slated to hit the House floor on Friday.  —  The 21st Century Cures Act was reported out of committee in May on a 51-0 vote.
BBC:
Film star Omar Sharif dies aged 83  —  Omar Sharif earned an Oscar nomination for Lawrence of Arabia  —  Actor Omar Sharif, best known for his roles in classic films Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, has died aged 83.  —  Egypt-born Sharif won two Golden Globe awards and an Oscar nomination …
Discussion: American Spectator
Gertrude Himmelfarb / Weekly Standard:
Into the Abyss  —  From the halls of academia to the cover of Vanity Fair.  —  The Caitlyn (née Bruce) Jenner case has engendered if not a new subject at least a newly publicized and sensationalized one.  For an old-timer like myself, transgenderism is reminiscent of the postmodernism …
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
The Republican Party Is Still Trying to Decide if Minorities Matter  —  The Republican party has had well-documented difficulty making inroads with minority voters since the 2012 election.  It's probably more accurate to say that since the 2012 election Republicans have been engaged in a quiet …
 
 
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Erik Piepenburg / New York Times:
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New York Times:
South Carolina Lowers Confederate Flag, and an Era Ends
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama's immigration orders face dim outlook at federal court
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
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Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
World is on a collision course with fossil fuels, Gov. Jerry Brown says
Discussion: BarbWire.com
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
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Aamer Madhani / USA Today:
Several big U.S. cities see homicide rates surge
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