We’re at war, but our campaign is about groping: A healthy press would make candidates address global affairs whether they want to or not, by Glenn Reynolds.

We’ve spent a lot of time talking about Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and sex. Meanwhile, over at The Week, Damon Linker asks plaintively, ”Why won’t anyone admit that America is fighting five wars?” …

Trump, of course, has focused on immigration, political correctness and other domestic issues. His foreign policy, to the extent that he has one, seems to boil down to leaving other countries alone unless they cause trouble, and bombing them into oblivion if they do. That doesn’t leave him a lot to talk about.

Clinton, meanwhile, doesn’t want to talk about America’s military/diplomatic messes because she had a big hand in making them. She likes to talk about her experience as secretary of State, but not so much about her accomplishments, because, to be honest, those aren’t anything to write home about. … A different Democratic presidential nominee — former senator James Webb, say, or even Sen. Bernie Sanders — could separate himself from Obama’s policies and their results. But Clinton can’t. Obama’s policies, and their ugly results, are Clinton’s policies as well. Better to talk about sex, even Bill’s affairs, than that.