Morning Must Reads: July 31

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  • House grants Boehner the authority to sue Obama [TIME]
  • Meanwhile in Kansas City … : “We could do so much more if Congress would just come on and help out a little bit,” Obama said. “Stop being mad all the time. Stop just hating all the time. Let’s get some work done together.” [Politico]
  • “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing international alarm over a rising civilian death toll in Gaza, said on Thursday he would not accept any ceasefire that stopped Israel completing the destruction of militants’ infiltration tunnel” [Reuters]
  • Argentina default imminent as talks collapse [WSJ]
  • Third Party candidates could disrupt 2014 Midterms [TIME]
  • U.S. Attorney warms Cuomo on ethics case [NYT]
  • General to question Bergdahl about disappearance [USA Today]
  • GOP: Lerner emails show bias against conservatives [AP]
  • ICYMI: “Lois Lerner, the former Internal Revenue Service official at the center of a scandal involving that agency’s targeting of conservative groups, called Republicans “crazies” and “assholes,” according to emails released Wednesday.” [TIME]
  • GAO report details flaws behind $840 million Obamacare website rollout [The Hill]
  • Can the GOP take the Senate? [The New Yorker]
  • The parallel failures of Obama’s and Bush’s foreign policy doctrines [National Journal]
  • What’s Prettier in Print:

  • COVER: Manopause?! Aging, Insecurity and the $2 Billion Testosterone Industry by David Von Drehle
  • Why Big Mergers Are Bad for Consumers by Rana Foroohar
    When big companies merge, it’s good for the bankers—but not so good for the rest of us
  • Begging for Impeachment by Joe Klein
  • How Kentucky Got Obamacare Right by Steven Brill
  • Honduras’s Desperate Voyagers by Ioan Grillo
  • Cracking The Girl Code by Eliana Docterman
  • Big Data Tries to Shrink the Prison Population by Massimo Calabresi
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