The Week

• Change you can believe in: We’ve been wondering for 35 years what it would take to get Joe Biden out of the Senate.

• For the press, intra-Democratic disputes have all the intrinsic interest, and all the unpleasantness, of a fight within one’s social circle. So coverage of the opening days of the Democratic convention dwelt on whether the Clintons and their loyalists would make up with the Obama forces.