Morning Must Reads: June 12

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The early morning sun rises behind the US Capitol Building in Washington, DC.Mark Wilson—Getty Images
By Alex Rogers

  • “Iraq edged closer to all-out sectarian conflict on Thursday as Kurdish forces took control of a provincial capital in the oil-rich north and Sunni militants vowed to march on two cities revered by Shiite Muslims.” [WSJ]
    • “As the threat from Sunni militants in western Iraq escalated last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas … But Iraq’s appeals for a military response have so far been rebuffed by the White House.” [NYT]
  • On the Edge of Civil War in Ukraine [Buzzfeed]
  • What went wrong for Eric Cantor? [WashPost]
    • Kevin McCarthy makes his move [Politico]
    • Cantor stands to make a lot of money should he head to K Street [National Journal]
  • Here are 10 Pew charts showing how the United States is growing more partisan [TIME]
  • Prettier in Print

  • “As the threat from Sunni militants in western Iraq escalated last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas … But Iraq’s appeals for a military response have so far been rebuffed by the White House.” [NYT]

  • Kevin McCarthy makes his move [Politico]
  • Cantor stands to make a lot of money should he head to K Street [National Journal]

  • Cover: Ending the War on Fat by Bryan Walsh
  • We’ve All Got GM Problems by Rana Foroohar
  • The (Slow) Greening of America by Michael Grunwald
  • The Bergdahls Are Sacrificial Lambs by Joe Klein
  • Russia, We Have a Problem by Jeffrey Kluger
  • Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko: Man in the Middle by Simon Shuster
  • Stars, Stripes and Soccer by Bill Saporito
  • Hillary’s Highly Choreographed Reality by Michael Crowley
  • Cantor: Loss Leader by Jay Newton-Small
  • 10 Questions With Ice Cube by Belinda Luscombe

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