Was it the worst week since 2009? Chris Robling and Charles Lipson do so aver as they examine:

• the new civil war in Iraq and how we helped bring it on;
• the flooding of the border with some 60,000 Latin American children;
• the dysfunctionality of Obamacare;
• the edging toward crime by the IRS;
• and the many other crises and regressions of prior weeks that are now obscured by those that hit the air-circulator this last week.