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.

Earth heading for ‘mini ice age’ within 15 years  —  River Thames could freeze over in 2030s when Northern Hemisphere faces bitterly cold winters, scientists say  —  The earth is 15 years from a “mini ice-age” that will cause bitterly cold winters during which rivers such as the Thames freeze over, scientists have predicted.

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 …

Key Republicans run from ‘demagogue’ Trump over immigration  —  Key Republicans distanced themselves on Sunday from presidential candidate Donald Trump's denunciation of illegal immigrants from Mexico as rapists and criminals, saying he has become “a wrecking ball” for the party's ability to win Hispanic voters.

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 …

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

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.

New book reveals John Gotti's role in ‘Goodfellas’ murder  —  It was time for Tommy ­DeSimone to die.  —  The mobster — famously portrayed by Joe Pesci in “Goodfellas” — killed two made men, tried to rape the wife of his gangster pal Henry Hill and stupidly lifted his ski mask during 1978's historic $6 million Lufthansa heist.

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.

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.

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.

Gifts of the Puritans  —  Robert Walter Weir's ‘Embarkation of the Pilgrims’ hangs in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol (Wikimedia Commons)  —  Americans can learn a lot about themselves and their society by revisiting—but not by reverting to—their republic's distinctive Puritan origins …

‘This Week’ Transcript: Carly Fiorina  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR “THIS WEEK” ON JULY 12, 2015.  —  ANNOUNCER: Starting right now on ABC's THIS WEEK, final countdown — an historic deal with Iran in reach.  —  But as the clock ticks down, could the negotiations still fall apart?