- An amendment doubling the number of patrol agents on the US-Mexico border boosts the chances of the Senate’s immigration reform bill
- Inside the White House’s stealth campaign to support the immigration bill. (Not so stealth now is it?)
- Sen. Marco Rubio talks about the politics of immigration reform with the Washington Examiner
- The National Security Agency may keep the e-mails and telephone calls of citizens and legal residents if the communications contain “significant foreign intelligence” or evidence of a crime
- How the House farm bill failed
- Why now, Ben Bernake?
- Taliban talks could depend on Gitmo detainees
- There’s a Republican-led state drive to replace tough-on-crime dictums of the 1990s with a more forgiving and nuanced set of laws
- George Will: Obama hits wall in Berlin
- How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? Google finds their brainteaser interview questions a “complete waste of time.”
- Next week, the Supreme Court will decide two landmark cases concerning same-sex marriage. The New Yorker provides a useful interactive map exploring the possible results.
- The Heat repeat
Morning Must Reads: June 21
In the news: the "border surge" amendment, NSA, farm bill failure, Supreme Court, and Heat.