For 32 years, a group of Republican and Democratic foreign-policy experts has gathered here each summer to debate strategic issues facing the country. This year the bipartisan group had a strange imbalance: None of the Republicans was prepared to argue the case of the GOP nominee, Donald Trump. Trump would probably be pleased to know that he failed to …

  Donald Trump did it again. He kicked up yet another controversy. This time over his reckless comments interpreted by some as a threat of violence against presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton. Trump comment at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, about ‘Second Amendment people’ stopping a President Hillary Clinton from appointing judges has been blasted. He accused Hillary Clinton …

  Vivint Solar was on fire. Think of this as a sudden flare rather than the start of a long, balmy afternoon, though. There’s no doubt the distributed solar-power company’s second-quarter results, released on Monday, took the market by storm. But context is all, and you don’t have to go back too far in Vivint’s history to get that context. …