Can Scott Walker Have It Both Ways?  —  The biggest question hanging over Walker's presidential campaign is whether the political strategy that got him this far can work at the next level.  —  “I'm pro-life,” Scott Walker said, looking directly into the camera.

Killing the European Project  —  Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp.  Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power.  Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro.  —  Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness.

GOP strategists to Jeb: Treat Trump with kid gloves  —  Jeb Bush needs to walk a fine line in responding to Donald Trump's attacks, Republican strategists say, and avoid going toe-to-toe with the brash New Yorker.  —  They say getting into a “food fight” with Trump would diminish Bush …

Earth heading for ‘mini ice age’ within 15 years  —  River Thames could freeze over in 2030s when Northern Hemisphere faces bitterly cold winters, scientists say  —  The earth is 15 years from a “mini ice-age” that will cause bitterly cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted.

Deal on Greek Debt Crisis Is Reached, but Long Road Remains  —  BRUSSELS — Greece and its European creditors announced an agreement here on Monday that aims to resolve the country's debt crisis and keep it in the eurozone, but that will require further budgetary belt-tightening …

First DHS chief: Obama needs to put on ‘commander in chief hat’  —  The first secretary of Homeland Security said on Sunday that President Obama is bungling the fight against global terrorism.  —  Tom Ridge added that Obama is not working hard enough to stop the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The End of the 2016 Election Is Closer Than You Think  —  The campaign might be lost even before the GOP picks a nominee.  —  SHARES  —  The end of the 2016 presidential election is actually much closer than you might think.  —  Get POLITICO Magazine in your feeds

Memo to Hillary: 'You're Still the Problem'  —  Old friends wonder what happened to the Clinton “we once knew.” … To: Hillary  —  From: A few of us  —  The last time we wrote as a group, you were deciding whether to run for president.  Conventional wisdom pegged you as a dead-certain candidate; we knew better.

WHINOS: On the Martyrdom of the Holy, Holy Base  —  What's generally misunderstood on the Left is that the tea-party movement did not arise as an alternative to the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Democrats but as an alternative to the Bush-McConnell-Hastert Republicans, who were judged to have spent too much …

After the dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the hopes of Barack Obama.  —  Late this spring, the publisher Spiegel & Grau sent out advance copies of a new book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a slim volume of 176 pages called Between the World and Me.  “Here is what I would like for you to know,” …