The Week

• If only the State Department were as focused on its mission as the Clinton Foundation.

• Hillary Rodham Clinton does not like to do press conferences, but she may change her mind after her last one. Breaking her eight-month run of evading the press, Mrs. Clinton took questions from the National Associations of Black Journalists and Hispanic Journalists, during which she basked in applause from the reporters. They clapped lustily after her praise of Barack Obama’s economic agenda and, perhaps worse, when she boasted about her approval numbers at the end of her tenure at the State Department. Prominent NABJ members include NBC anchor Lester Holt and Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times. When the media cover Clinton with kid gloves, we don’t need to imagine them applauding her — we’ve already seen it.