This story is about “everything that is wrong with our criminal justice system,” New Yorker writer Jennifer Gonnerman told MSNBC‘s Chris Hayes on Monday night, amid spreading anger and sorrow as more people read about the suicide at the weekend of 22-year-old Kalief Browder.

Hayes had earlier tweeted that the story is “so outrageous it makes my vision blurry.”

Michael Schwirtz and Michael Winerip of the New York Times provide a lede to what is in the process of becoming a widely known – and simply heartbreaking – narrative.

Kalief Browder was sent to Rikers Island when he was 16 years old, accused of stealing a backpack. Though he never stood trial or was found guilty of any crime, he spent three years at the New York City jail complex, nearly two of them in solitary confinement.

In October 2014, after he was written about in The New Yorker, his case became a symbol of what many saw as a broken criminal justice system. Mayor Bill de Blasio cited the article this spring when he announced an effort to clear the backlogs in state courts and reduce the inmate population at Rikers.

For a while, it appeared Mr. Browder was putting his life back together: He earned a high school equivalency diploma and started community college. But he continued to struggle with life after Rikers.

On Saturday, he committed suicide at his parents’ home in the Bronx.

Ta-Nehesi Coates writes at The Atlantic that “There should be an accounting beyond numbers for these years.”

Kalief Browder was an individual, which is to say he was a being with his own passions, his own particular joys, his own strange demons, his own flaws, his own eyes, his own mouth, his own original hands. His family had their own particular stories of him. His friends must remember him in their own original way. The senseless destruction of this individual must necessarily be laid at the feet of the citizens of New York, because it was done by our servants, and it was done in our name.

Christopher Mathias writes at The Huffington Post that Kalief Browder’s death is “An American Tragedy Almost Beyond Words.”

Something needs to change.

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* WORLD * The G7 summit broke up with pledges on climate change, terrorism and Ukraine, while there was also renewed pressure on Greece to resolve its ongoing dispute with its creditors. “Every day counts,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose channeling of Maria Von Trapp was all over the Interwebs…

The US Supreme Court upheld the power of the President exclusively to recognize foreign governments by rejecting a law that would allow people born in Jerusalem to have “Israel” listed as their country of birth on their passports. Reuters reports that:

Writing for the court in an important ruling on separation of powers within the U.S. government, [Justice Anthony] Kennedy said the U.S. Congress, which enacted the law in 2002, has a role to play in foreign policy but cannot make decisions on recognizing foreign governments. The U.S. Constitution makes that the president’s “exclusive power,” Kennedy wrote.

Congress passed the law when President George W. Bush was president. Neither his administration nor Obama’s ever enforced it. While Israel calls Jerusalem its capital, few other countries accept that. Most, including the United States, maintain embassies in Tel Aviv.

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* BUSINESS * Apple unveiled Apple Music, its streaming music service expected to take on Spotify at the tech giant’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference in San Francisco. Here’s how the two services differ, via Gizmodo.

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* POLITICS * Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert will be arraigned in a Chicago courtroom on Tuesday to answer federal charges that he attempted to cover up hush money payments. Josh Gerstein writes at Politico that “It’s unclear whether Hastert intends to fight the charges or will seek to cut a plea deal.”

Stephanie Mencimer writes at Mother Jones that Hastert “may have chosen the absolute worst way to buy someone’s silence” and she runs down some simpler options, from buying a Picasso to simply writing a check.

As Jeffrey Toobin noted in the New Yorker this week, if Hastert had simply written Individual A a check for $3.5 million, he wouldn’t be immersed in a scandal right now. It’s not a crime to give another person money, though there are some tax implications. A $3.5 million check wouldn’t have been reported to the feds. But Hastert’s behavior suggests he desperately wanted to avoid leaving any kind of paper trail.

A week ahead of his expected entry into the GOP race, Jeb Bush reshuffled the top of his campaign team.

The leadership change so close to his announcement illustrates the challenges Mr. Bush is facing as he simultaneously tries to build a political organization and remake himself into a candidate more than 12 years after his last campaign, his 2002 re-election as governor.

Harry Enten at FiveThirtyEight takes another look at the possible setup for the initial Republican TV debates, which take on greater importance as the field grows.

On the Democratic side, John Wagner at the Washington Post writes on how staffers from Gary Hart’s 1984 campaign, including a certain Martin O’Malley, are getting the band back together for the former Maryland Governor’s tilt at the nomination this year.

Hart, now 78, says he will back O’Malley’s candidacy, both because he believes the country would benefit from fresh leadership and, “if nothing else, because he supported me.”

Asked O’Malley’s odds of winning, Hart replied: “At this stage, very unlikely. But it was for me, too.”

Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders continues to make front-runner Hillary Clinton run to the left as his populist campaign seems to be hitting home, if the Wisconsin straw poll is any indicator; well among 500-odd voters that is.