TIME Staff

• Walker’s recall vote arrives with the incumbent ahead and big turnout hurdles for his challenger.
• Political affiliation now predicts Americans’ values better than race, religion, income, education or gender.
• To Obama’s relief, Bill Clinton course corrects on Romney.

• After a rough month, Elizabeth Warren wraps up the Massachusetts Senate nomination without a primary fight.
• The Obama campaign takes the brickbat to Romney’s record as governor; given Friday’s job numbers, it’ll probably only get nastier from here.

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• A miserable unemployment report: 69,000 jobs added in May, unemployment rate up to 8.2%, broader U-6 measure up to 14.8%. Plus, April’s figure and first quarter growth have been revised down. Everybody panic. The Fed is on deck.
• The real Stuxnet story: centrifuge-sabotaging cyber attacks started under Bush, expanded under Obama and

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• Obama and Syria: hands tied, in a bind.
• Romney’s favorability gap is still closing.
• Brilliant: the deleted tweets of politicians.

• It’s crunch time for the Obama economy, though things aren’t as dire as 1980.
• Romney will detail financial regulatory reforms.
• Scott Brown runs on his vote for Dodd-Frank.

• The President’s kill list.
• What are the chances that Greece dropping the euro will topple Obama? 14%-ish.
• Even if it doesn’t fall, Congress’s high-wire act on the debt ceiling and the fiscal cliff is damaging.
• When Republicans are Keynesians.

• Romney feels haunted by gaffes.
• Ground zero, Wisconsin.
• The Senate race is a better bellwether than the recall.

• Why the Massachusetts Senate race is close: the fundamentals favor Warren, Brown is more popular.
• George Will chalks it up to off-putting identity politics of l’affaire de Cherokee, though the polling suggests it’s not having a huge effect.
• Fewer Americans are identifying as “pro-choice” even though their views on abortion haven’t changed.

• “Uncommitted” and a perennial candidate gave Obama a run for his money last night in Arkansas and Kentucky primaries. It’s almost as if he might lose those states, which McCain won by about 20 points in 2008, this fall.
• A WSJ/NBC poll finds that very few people are familiar with or have an opinion about Bain Capital.
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• Obama and Romney run dead even on the economy, which 80% say is still bad though a slim majority now feel hopeful about its direction.
• The way for conservatives to embrace Romney is to pressure him.
• Unable to further avail the White House, Catholic institutions sue the Obama Administration over contraception coverage

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• How Mormonism shaped Romney.
• How 1968 shaped Romney.
• How Obama narrowed the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.

• Joe Ricketts backs off Jeremiah Wright.
• Romney’s first TV ad of the general election: greenlight the Keystone pipeline, cut taxes, repeal health reform.
• The Federal Reserve Board is now fully staffed for the first time since 2006. (It’s not like much happened in the realm of monetary policy over the last six years, right?)
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• The cost of JPMorgan’s blown bet jumps 50% to $3 billion while things get litigious.
• A super PAC weighs going after Jeremiah Wright.
• Scott Walker expedites some convenient jobs numbers.
• Non-white births are now the majority for the first time in the U.S.