- Obama’s last campaign: Inside the White House plan to sell Obamacare
- Here’s what Obama will say in his Obamacare speech today
- Assad may not be capable of winning back Syria, but his position is stronger than it has been in months
- David Ignatius: Syrian rebels get the jilt from America
- A meeting of Senate Republicans on Wednesday grew tense as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told his members he could have gotten a better deal on nominations than the one negotiated by rank-and-file Republicans
- The Senate has established a July 26 deadline for lobbyists to submit tax reform requests
- Fed Chairman Ben Bernake had possibly his last meeting with Congress Wednesday
- An unprecedented federal review of old criminal cases has uncovered as many as 27 death penalty convictions in which FBI forensic experts may have mistakenly linked defendants to crimes with exaggerated scientific testimony
- In his GQ profile, Joe Biden on 2016: “We’ll see where the hell I am.”
- Prettier in print
- Cover: “As Zimmerman Trial Ends, What’s Next” by Michael Scherer and Elizabeth Dias
- “Anne Patterson’s Burden” by Michael Crowley
- “Trayvon’s Death is an Outrage, But…” by Joe Klein
- “A Pope for the Poor” by Howard Chua-Eoan
- “The End of Chemo?” by Alice Park
- A new Pew poll shows that America’s global image remains more powerful than China, but many see China supplanting U.S. as the world’s leading power
Morning Must Reads: July 18
In the news: Obamacare, China, Assad, the death penalty, a lobbyist tax reform deadline, Joe Biden in GQ, and what's prettier in print