TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
Miscellany
Morning Must Reads: Problem
- The economy added 163,000 jobs in July as the unemployment rate ticked up slightly. The glacial pace of recovery continues.
- The fundamentals are dramatically working against Obama’s chances.
- Romney’s image gap looks like a problem.
“Palestinians are a hard-working and an incredible community. They have done remarkably well outside their country. I have never met a poor Palestinian in the United States; every Palestinian I know is a college professor or a doctor.”
Morning Must Reads: Riot
The Tax Policy Center says it doesn’t matter what deductions Romney ends, his reform plan would be regressive.
Obama heads to Florida to talk about it, makes the tax thing personal on TV:
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Morning Must Reads: Tack
- Ted Cruz wins in Texas, which will further swell the Senate’s conservative ranks come January.
- Personal appeal has Obama breaking 50% in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida despite weak job performance ratings.
- Romney’s worried enough about the President’s Ohio blitz that he’s changed tacks on the auto-bailout, hitting him with the
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Morning Must Reads: Unswayed
- With the presidential contest static, the parties try to invent an advantage.
- Wall Street likes to do it too.
- San Antonio mayor Julian Castro will keynote the Democratic convention, Elizabeth Warren will open for Bill Clinton.
Morning Must Reads: Influence
- Romney raises money in Israel.
- Bill Clinton gets a big night in Charlotte.
- Paul Ryan’s influence in profile.
Political Pictures of the Week, July 21-27
From New Orleans to London, TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures of the past week from the Beltway and beyond.
“If you believe that, we ought to go back to monarchy. The people are such sheep that they swallow whatever they see on television or read in the newspapers? No.”
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Morning Must Reads: Diplomacy
–Economic growth slows to 1.5% in the second quarter, the worst rate in a year.
–The Guardian’s live blog captured every wince of Gov. Romney’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
–Congressional leaders say they’re working on a stopgap measure to fund the government until 2013, thereby preventing a potential shutdown …
Al Franken Says Goodbye To Tom Davis, His Comedy Partner
Before there was Minnesota Sen. Al Franken, there was Franken and Davis, a comedy writing duo that became one the best comedy teams in American history. They were high school friends, who went on to become founding writers for Saturday Night Live, and much more. Davis died last week after a long battle with cancer. On Thursday, Franken …