The Week

• Bruce Jenner is female, Rachel Dolezal is black, and Donald Trump is a presidential contender.

• Just because she’s an uninspiring figure doesn’t mean she can’t win. Hillary Clinton gave a pedestrian performance in her campaign relaunch on Roosevelt Island. She outlined liberal policies — paid-leave mandates for businesses, a higher minimum wage, universal preschool — and celebrated the liberal coalition. The theory seems to be that those policies are sufficiently popular, and that coalition sufficiently large, that together they can bring her victory no matter how meager her political talent or how suspect her character. That theory could be right. But it depends on a caricature of Republicans as having nothing to offer Americans who aren’t rich. If they offer appealing policies of their own — free-market reforms of health insurance and higher education, for example — they can prove her wrong. The Republican party’s would-be presidents should spend the next nine months competing over who can best do that job.