FBI Director James Comey is an institution man. So it must be especially painful to him that he is single-handedly undermining faith not only in the institution he leads, but in the propriety of a presidential election. Comey has been balancing the interests of those institutions, the FBI and the election, for months. In July, when he held a …

  After winning the parliamentary confidence vote on Saturday, Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy tweeted, “We have a lot of work to do.” The premier realizes that the road ahead for him is fraught with formidable challenges. Rajoy was sworn in on Monday. He will name a new Cabinet on Thursday. The first thing that Rajoy has to do is …

  Leave it to a couple of Mexican cement and metals companies to expose Donald Trump’s calumnies about the relatively buoyant American economy, its resurgent workers and the advantages of free trade. Trump overwhelmed 16 rivals in the Republican presidential primaries by vowing to build a wall across the southern border and scored his best debating points against Hillary Clinton …