The Week

• So far the candidates have stuck with what they do best: Hillary lying and Trump firing people.

• It is clear why Hillary Clinton did not want to give up the e-mails recently released by the Obama administration in response to ongoing litigation from Judicial Watch: They reveal precisely the Clinton Foundation corruption that critics have long alleged. Specifically, the e-mails detail Huma Abedin’s role — while she was on the State Department’s payroll — as a fixer for the Clinton Foundation, making sure that influential friends overseas, especially donors, had access to the U.S. secretary of state. In several e-mail exchanges, Clinton Foundation operative Doug Band pesters a solicitous Abedin to get meetings or do other favors for friends of the foundation, including Crown Prince Salman of Bahrain, who donated millions to the Clinton Global Initiative. There is a case to be made — and it should be made — that Clinton obstructed justice and made false statements to investigators regarding her private server and e-mails. The FBI dropped the ball on that, but that ball can be picked up again. Yes, it is awkward to conduct a criminal investigation during a presidential campaign. It is more awkward to conduct one involving a sitting president. But either option is more desirable than declaring elected officials, or at least one family of elected officials, above the law.