Graham on Trump: He came in like a ‘wrecking ball’  —  (CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham says Donald Trump is a “wrecking ball” who has put the Republican Party's future on the line with his controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants.  —  “I think he's hijacked the debate.

The End of the 2016 Election Is Closer Than You Think  —  The campaign might be lost even before the GOP picks a nominee.  —  SHARES  —  The end of the 2016 presidential election is actually much closer than you might think.  —  Get POLITICO Magazine in your feeds

Disaster In Europe  —  Obviously the news from Europe is terrible, with much confusion about exactly what is happening.  Here's what I think is the story, although I haven't done any independent reporting.  —  1. Tsipras apparently allowed himself to be convinced, some time ago, that euro exit was completely impossible.

Bill Cosby's wife says accusers ‘consented’ to drugs and sex  —  Bill Cosby's wife knows her husband is a serial philanderer, but believes his scores of accusers consented to drugs and sex, two confidants of the couple say.  —  Last week's revelation that Cosby admitted during a deposition …

The Dream World of the Southern Republicans  —  UNLIKE previous Alabama governors, Robert J. Bentley is not a fount of oratory.  Nor is he a champion of “kinder and gentler.”  His dyspeptic refusal to accept federal funds for Medicaid expansion, in a state where more than one million …

Germany doesn't want to save Greece.  It seems to want to humiliate Greece.  —  Greece has offered an almost unconditional surrender on its bailout, but Germany might not accept anything less than a Carthaginian peace.  In other words, a deal that not only forces Athens to submit, but also humiliates it in the process.

All the Views Unfit to Print … I'm sure the late, great Ms. Ivins would be shaking her head at a bizarre controversy involving a New England newspaper that has been humiliated because of its nonsensical 2013 decision to provide a forum to far-right views.  Hopefully, as a result of this controversy …

APNewsBreak: Diplomats: Iran announcement planned Monday  —  2 photos  —  VIENNA (AP) — Negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks plan to announce on Monday that they have reached agreement on a historic deal capping nearly a decade of diplomacy that would curb the country's atomic program …

???This Week???  Transcript: Carly Fiorina  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR “THIS WEEK” ON JULY 12, 2015.  —  STEPHANOPOULOS: That's going to bring us to a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez.  —  Thank you for joining us.  —  You just saw that optimism in Iran.

Last Stop on the L Train: Detroit  —  “Detroit, Just West of Bushwick,” read the first billboard that popped up in Bushwick, Brooklyn, this spring, with a working class scene from one of Diego Rivera's “Detroit Industry” murals.  “Detroit, Be Left Alone,” a second one preached soon after, again in Bushwick.

WHINOS: On the Martyrdom of the Holy, Holy Base  —  What's generally misunderstood on the Left is that the tea-party movement did not arise as an alternative to the Obama-Reid-Pelosi Democrats but as an alternative to the Bush-McConnell-Hastert Republicans, who were judged to have spent too much …

An opportunity gamed away  —  For a county in the Deep South that reaped millions from casino business, poverty is still its spin of the wheel  —  Her one-story house was slumping inch by inch, day by day, into the wet ground of the Mississippi Delta.  Rot climbed up the wooden beams and mildew crept across the ceiling.