GOP strategists to Jeb: Treat Trump with kid gloves  —  Jeb Bush needs to walk a fine line in responding to Donald Trump's attacks, Republican strategists say, and avoid going toe-to-toe with the brash New Yorker.  —  They say getting into a “food fight” with Trump would diminish Bush …

Killing the European Project  —  Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp.  Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power.  Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro.  —  Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness.

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

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 …

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 …

Mexico drug lord Guzman's escape tunnel is a minor engineering masterpiece  —  The tunnel stretched a mile long, from the jailhouse shower to an empty building in a cornfield, and was deep enough for drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to stand upright as he made his escape.

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.

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 …

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata is dead at 55  —  Nintendo has announced that its president and CEO, Satoru Iwata, died on Saturday.  He was 55, and the cause of death was stated as a bile duct growth.  Iwata took some time off for health reasons last year and had surgery to remove a tumor, returning later in the year.

The End of Federally Financed Ghettos  —  The Supreme Court issued an important ruling last month when it reminded state and local governments that the Fair Housing Act of 1968 bars them from spending federal housing money in a manner that perpetuates racial segregation.