The Week

• If Bernie Sanders is tired of hearing about Clinton scandals now, he should just wait till she’s president.

• Hillary Clinton came out against the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), a trade agreement negotiated by the Obama administration. What was interesting about her decision was not that she took it in order to mollify the Democratic party’s anti-free-trade Left, nor that she took it cynically, having praised the TPP as it was being negotiated (and while she was secretary of state) as “the gold standard in trade agreements.” No, what was most interesting was that almost the entire political world assumed her cynicism: not just us-folks on the right, eager to see her shame herself, and political opponents (“I did not come out against TPP yesterday,” said Bernie Sanders), but liberal media outlets (CNN counted, and announced that she had praised the TPP 45 times). That leaves, among her admirers, those who are too cynical to care about cynicism, and those who are so cynical that they admire it in others.