TIME Staff

• Romney says two tax returns are enough, he won’t disclose more.
• Pawlenty is getting a serious look for vice president, and the decision may already have been made.
• Adviser Ed Gillespie swoops in to clear up the Bain timeline: Romney “retired retroactively.” Oh.
  
• Horse race update: Yep, still close.

• I’ll accept this premise and its coinage: Swift-Yachting is mostly about getting at Romney’s tax returns.
• Bain documents back up the story that he ceded management in 1999.
• Obama’s above-board favorability ratings may help neutralize disapproval of the job he’s doing.
• He says his biggest mistake in his first term was caring too

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• Romney stayed longer than he claimed at Bain.
• His answer to Obama’s outsourcing attacks: The President is a liar.

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• Michael Kinsley sticks up for outsourcing.

• Presidential horse race update: Its still close.
• Tom Junod considers the moral implications of Obama’s lethal foreign policy.
• Republicans continue to look for the limits of the rule barring campaign-super PAC coordination, and have yet to find any.
• Texas’ conservative Senate candidate now marred by

• Outside Romney’s fabulous weekend fundraiser in the Hamptons, the donors speak their minds. (So do the protesters.)
• Obama will propose extending all but the top-tier of the Bush tax cuts for one year, seek contrast with Romney.
• A sequel to the big Supreme Court leak story: Conservative Justices, still angry!

• The economy adds an anemic 80,000 jobs in June.
• Romney and the RNC raise $100 million for the month, an all-time record for Republicans.
• He’s preparing one of the those big summer foreign tours.

• Romney attempts a double back flip with one leg behind his head: A federal insurance mandate is a tax because John Roberts says so, but a state insurance mandate is not.
• Obama will announce an unfair trade complaint against China at a campaign rally today, an answer to Romney’s sino-aggression and another way for the President to

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• The most consistent theme in polling on health reform is bafflement: 45% of Americans don’t know the Supreme Court upheld it.
• Here are some more enlightening numbers (pdf).
• How Republicans can repeal the law.

• Decision day: How to read the Supreme Court’s health care ruling, which you’ll find here shortly after 10 a.m.
• Obama has three speeches prepared.
• This could be a messy, complex decision that doesn’t fit neatly in those boxes.

• The Fast and Furious truth: a Fortune investigation finds “gun walking” was never intentionally part of the ATF operation, politics and revenge inflamed the case.
• With talks failed and NRA-friendly Democrats aligning against him, Holder hurtles toward a contempt vote Thursday.
• Doing what it does best, Congress prepares to kick the

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• Thursday is John Roberts’ big moment.
• Justice Scalia’s best dissents.
• Arizona law enforcers sweat as “papers please” goes into effect.

Welcome to Health Care Decision Week 2012. Knowledgeable sources say the Supreme Court’s ruling will be coming out today or Thursday or Tuesday or Wednesday, so put on your best black robe and read the following pieces of perishable wisdom.

• Various stakeholders are poised and ready to freak out.
• The finger-pointing has already

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• The Washington Post covers outsourcing under Romney at Bain from, uh, all sides.
• Moody’s cuts the credit rating of 15 big banks (some of whom got mighty preachy during that whole S&P debt ceiling thing.)
• Speaker Boehner says no excessive celebration if the court overturns Obamcare.